Mass Pedicab Ride on City Hall
Fair Regulation, Not Strangulation
12:18 AM EDT on August 15, 2007
Fair Regulation, Not Strangulation
No Cap, No Bans on Pedicab Industry
100 plus Pedicabs will ride en masse from Columbus Circle down Broadway to City Hall starting at noon. Media are invited to “embed” as pedicab passengers at any point during the ride.
2 p.m. press conference on City Hall steps will target City Council “FAVOR TO THE YELLOW TAXI MEDALLION OWNERS” Pedicab Regulation Bill 331A (now Public Law 19) set to take effect Sept. 20.
THIS LAW WILL PUT NEARLY HALF OUR INDUSTRY OUT OF BUSINESS BY A LOTTERY TO BE HELD IN 2 WEEKS. FLEET OWNERS WILL BE DECIMATED.
PEDICABS ARE NO THREAT TO THE TAXI INDUSTRY YET NEW YORK’S ONLY GREEN LIVERY SERVICE IS BEING CRUSHED BY NY CITY COUNCIL CRONYISM.
Before he began blogging about land use and transportation, Aaron Donovan wrote The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund's annual fundraising appeal for three years and earned a master's degree in urban planning from Columbia. Since then, he has worked for nonprofit organizations devoted to New York City economic development. He lives and works in the Financial District, and sees New York's pre-automobile built form as an asset that makes New York unique in the United States, and as a strategic advantage that should be capitalized upon.
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