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The year 2008 has once again been a transformative one for the TLC, as well as for all of our regulated industries. While the economic downturn has resulted in challenges to all of the TLC’s regulated industries, your combined efforts have continued to serve the riding public well, and have helped to keep your industries [...]
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It’s getting harder to hack it in New York.
It used to be when times were tough and you needed cash in a hurry, you dusted off your hack license and got behind the wheel of a yellow cab.
Not so fast, now.
With thousands of New Yorkers newly laid off there are more drivers than cabs. And [...]
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When a small city, like Calabasas, Calif., does something innovative, like banning outdoor smoking, that’s interesting. But when a big city like New York tries something new, it’s probably time to sit up and take notice.
Which is what makes an announcement scheduled for Wednesday so interesting. The city’s Department of Transportation has contracted with the [...]
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A Wall Street driver and the trickle-down of misfortune.
Pervaiz Waraich is cruising lower Manhattan, stuck in the worst dry spell of his seventeen years as a yellow-cab driver. After starting his twelve-hour shift an hour early, at 4 p.m., he has grossed just $22 in 90 prime-time minutes. He’s seen pedestrians on the streets, and [...]
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When new hybrids from Ford and Honda roll into showrooms this spring, drivers will find flashy dashboards that turn hypermiling into a videogame.
Ford and Honda’s next-gen instrument clusters feature trees (a vine in Ford’s case) that grow more lush as drivers learn to hypermile — the fine art of maximizing fuel economy. Leaves grow like crabgrass in [...]
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