From the monthly archives:
The city’s new hybrid taxis might be greener, but they’re also a lot meaner - giving passengers 34 percent less legroom than the old Ford Crown Victorias.
Eco-friendly cabs are squeezing passengers out of 5 fewer inches of space between the edge of the seat and the back of the partition. And cramped riders are getting [...]
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Seven people were hospitalized, one in serious condition, after a taxi jumped the curb on an Upper West Side street and plowed into a pizzeria, police said.
The victims included both pedestrians on the street and diners inside Mama’s Pizzeria, they said.
There was no immediate explanation of what caused the cab to jump the curb shortly [...]
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The Bloomberg administration moved forward on Thursday with its latest attempt to get taxicab owners to replace their old gas guzzlers with hybrid or other low-emission vehicles.
Toward that end, the Taxi and Limousine Commission enacted a set of incentives that allows taxi fleet owners to charge drivers more to drive hybrid or clean diesel cabs.
The [...]
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Council Member David Yassky, chair of the Council’s Committee on Small Business, unveiled a new report on the state of taxi drivers under the current brokerage system, “Running on Empty: How taxi brokers in New York City are evading the lease caps at the expense of working drivers.”
Council Member Yassky was joined by Bhairavi [...]
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The average cabby works nine and a half hours a day. A cab’s busiest hours are 6 to 8 p.m. And even as the economy has fallen deeper into recession, the number of cab rides each day in New York has remained relatively steady.
Those are among the most vivid bits of information about the yellow [...]
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The city launched an investigation yesterday to find out why several cab companies allowed a violent taxi driver to get behind the wheel after he was arrested three times and his license was suspended.
The city Taxi and Limousine Commission, which regulates the cab industry, also said it may shut down the companies that permitted Ramez [...]
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Meet Ramez Akladious, the worst - and most dangerous - taxi driver in the city.
He allegedly slashed a passenger with a boxcutter, drove drunk and, to cap it off, hurled ethnic slurs and lunged at a rider - who happened to work for the Taxi and Limousine Commission.
Beware: Even though his taxi license was revoked [...]
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