Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Taxis & Limos

Swapping Horses for Taxis Would Saddle CBD With Even More Gridlock

By Charles Komanoff | Apr 28, 2014 | 7 Comments

That didn’t last long. Last Thursday, less than 24 hours after a mayoral spokesman floated the idea of letting owners of the city’s 68 horse carriage medallions swap them for taxi medallions, Mayor de Blasio reportedly laughed off the notion. A good thing, too. It’s generally poor policy to buy off one entitlement with another […]

Slew of Traffic Safety Bills on Council Transpo Committee Agenda

By Brad Aaron | Apr 24, 2014 | 14 Comments

The City Council transportation committee has a full docket of traffic safety bills on the agenda for its April 30 meeting. We’ll have more on some of these bills in future posts, but for now here’s a summary. There are a number of bills pertaining to taxi safety. Intro 276 would institute a one-year pilot […]

Letter Grades for Taxi and Livery Companies: TLC Commish Receptive to It

By Ben Fried | Apr 22, 2014 | 2 Comments

What if taxi and livery drivers in NYC received letter grades to reflect their safety records, the same way restaurants get grades from the health department? Eric McClure of Park Slope Neighbors raised the possibility at last night’s Vision Zero town hall in Park Slope, and found a receptive audience in new TLC Commissioner Meera […]

Actually, de Blasio’s Vision Zero Blueprint Has a Lot for Cab Drivers to Like

By Brad Aaron | Feb 19, 2014 | 24 Comments

Bhairavi Desai may not believe speeding by cab drivers is a problem in NYC, but for someone whose job is to look out for cabbies’ best interests, there should be a lot to like about Mayor de Blasio’s Vision Zero proposals. Desai is executive director of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance. She has called automated speed […]

Rosenthal Wants TLC Licenses Revoked for Serious Failure to Yield Crashes

By Brad Aaron | Feb 18, 2014 | 2 Comments

Legislation from City Council Member Helen Rosenthal would revoke hack licenses of cab drivers who kill or seriously injure pedestrians and cyclists while failing to yield. Through a change to city administrative code that governs the Taxi and Limousine Commission, the legislation would require the suspension of the driver’s TLC license, pending an investigation, after a […]

Will NYC Act to Get Deadly Cab Drivers Off the Streets? [Updated]

By Brad Aaron | Feb 10, 2014 | 24 Comments

An analysis by the Post confirms that cab drivers who injure and kill pedestrians in NYC rarely face sanctions from the Taxi and Limousine Commission. The Post examined 16 serious crashes since 2009 and found that only two drivers had their hack licenses revoked. The cabbies who killed Timothy Keith and Cooper Stock and the […]

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