New York, NY – The city will not appeal a judge’s order that slammed the brakes on the Bloomberg administration’s taxi plans.
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The preliminary injunction, which a Manhattan judge handed down last week, prevents the Bloomberg administration – at least temporarily – from creating a new class of livery cars that would be allowed to pick up street hails.
The order also prevents the administration from going forward with the sale of new yellow taxi medallions to expand that fleet.
City lawyers on Tuesday informed Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron by letter it won’t fight his decision. City lawyers, however, asked Engoron to swiftly decide three lawsuits brought by opponents of the city’s taxi plans, including fleet owners.
I don’t understand why they need to license all these new taxis. There are plentyof yellow cabs at rush hour, both in midtown and downtown where people work and need to get home to the upper East and West-sides. The people who live in the outer boroughs are generally NOT going to take cabs to and from work in the same way many Manhattanites do.