A couple approach a tow truck hauling away their car on West 14th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, the most-ticketed block in the city.
The most-ticketed block in New York City is 14th Street, between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. The number of parking tickets issued citywide has surged 42 percent since Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg took office.
The day after Thanksgiving was the most-ticketed day of the last fiscal year.
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Jackrabbit starts and sudden stops are a hallmark of New York City taxicabs, but they aren’t very fuel-efficient.
New York mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is fighting to replace the Crown Victorias in the city’s taxi fleet with relatively fuel-efficient hybrid cars, as my colleague William Neuman has reported.
Here’s another idea for saving gas: requiring taxi drivers to learn how to drive smarter. At the moment, there seems to be no focus on fuel-efficient driving (sometimes called hypermiling) in taxi school, except insofar as it overlaps with defensive driving and passenger-relations training.
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ANDREW BARWICK, a 25-year-old architect who lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, was biking to work one day a few weeks ago on Kent Avenue, along the Williamsburg waterfront, at what he recalled as “a pretty good clip.”
As a result, he had little time to react when a sedan from a car service making a left turn cut him off, sending him sailing over his handlebars and onto the ground.
Mr. Barwick and the driver of the sedan shouted back and forth, he said, after which the driver headed off, but not before a construction worker noted the license number and the sticker from the car’s employer: Northside Car Service, on nearby Bedford Avenue.
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“Talk to people about themselves
and they will listen for hours”
-Benjamin Disraeli
Recently, deep into the morning, as I lingered with my fellow drivers, waiting on line to consummate our payment ritual with the night dispatcher, one of my colleagues eyeballed me and blurted out: “Don’t you just love it when passengers spend the entire trip talking on their cell phones.”
I was taken aback: “Now why the hell would I love that?”
“Because then we don’t have to talk to them.”
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Getting into a taxi was a little like getting into a time machine this week.
A ticker-tape of headlines that runs along the bottom of TV screens in many yellow taxis displayed news items that were weeks old because of a technical snafu.
Jesse Davis, president of Creative Mobile Technologies, the company that runs the technical side of NY10, said the problem was a failure to communicate.
WNBC changed the source of its local news feed, but Davis’ company didn’t get the memo, so it didn’t make needed changes in the system.
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