New York, NY – New York City taxi fares may rise in order to pay for an increase in the number of wheelchair-accessible cabs.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration will propose a 30 cent-surcharge on all yellow taxi and green outer-borough cab rides.
That additional money will be allocated for drivers and taxi medallion owners to help them upgrade their cabs into ones that can accommodate wheelchairs.
Currently, only 231 cabs in the city are wheelchair accessible.
The city wants to boost that number to more than 7,500, as part of the terms of a legal settlement reached last year by accessibility advocates and the administration of former Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
The de Blasio administration will hold a hearing on the surcharge next month. If it passes, it will go into effect next year.
If the courts had not overturned the previous administration’s plan to have all new cabs standardized (Nissan cab of the Future) this would not be necessary.
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So the precious Manhattan dwellers will be fine. Why not give every fare a 15 or 20 cent surcharge instead of punishing those who live in 4 of the 5 boroughs?
I have rachmunes for the handicapped people but how much more can the rest of the people be inconvenienced with this ADA?