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Thursday’s Headlines: Fleet Week Edition
The entire taxi fleet — including Ubers and Lyfts, plus yellows — will have to be electric or handicapped accessible by 2030. Plus other news.
October 19, 2023
Revel Seeks to Create All-Electric Taxi Fleet — But City Says ‘Not So Fast’
April 28, 2021
KOMANOFF: De Blasio’s Medallion ‘Bailout’ Plan Ignores True Cause Of Taxi Driver Distress
It is going to be up to the next mayor to follow up with explicit policies addressing the unjust competition between yellow cab drivers and those of Uber and Lyft — policies such as those our columnist outlines here.
March 10, 2021
City Should Charge For Cruising Empty, Instead of Capping It
"A charge on idle time is bound to be more effective," said Charles Komanoff.
January 13, 2020
City Not Using Camera Tickets to Crack Down on Reckless Cabbies
The Taxi and Limousine Commission claims it does not have the authority to take cabbies off the road for multiple camera-issued speeding tickets. But others say it does.
January 10, 2020
Green Cabbie Who Killed a Brooklyn Pedestrian Drove Car with 14 Moving Violations
The cab driver who ran over and killed a Brooklyn pedestrian last month is a driver in good standing, despite a 2016 speeding ticket that put four points on his license.
January 3, 2020
BREAKING: Uber Sues City Over Cruising Empty Cap
The city's proposed cap on cruising times for app-based cabs is "arbitrary" and illegal because it supersedes the state's traffic-reduction regulations, and was concocted secretly without taking into consideration other factors, a new lawsuit by Uber argues.
September 20, 2019
IT’S NOT YOUR IMAGINATION: Uber and Lyft Drivers Almost Always Park in Bike Lanes
Just how bad are Uber and Lyft drivers when it comes to blocking bike lanes? Just horrible.
August 5, 2019
KOMANOFF: Not So Fast — New Uber/Lyft Rules Will Speed Traffic Less Than City Thinks
Our taxicab Tennyson, our deadline Dylan, Charles Komanoff predicts that the mayor's Uber/Lyft plan won't really solve the congestion problem. There's math involved, so you might want to open that calculator app.
June 13, 2019
City to App-Cab Giants: Cut Empty Cruising or Pay the Price
If they don't, "there will be very severe penalties," said Deputy Mayor for Operations Laura Anglin.
June 12, 2019