New York, NY – Taxi riders could trade privacy for savings under ride sharing plans being unveiled tomorrow by city officials.
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The Taxi and Limousine Commission will outline at its meeting tomorrow a pilot program that would establish six group-ride routes with passengers paying $3 or $4 per trip.
Each passenger could save up to 65% depending on how far they travel, TLC officials said.
Three of the routes go from the major transit hubs – Grand Central Terminal, Penn Station and the Port Authority bus terminal – to 59th St. and Sixth Ave.
The other routes are to Park Ave./42nd St. from separate starting points: W 57th St/8th Ave; E 72nd St/Third Ave, or W 72nd St./Columbus Ave.
The group-ride routes would operate one way during the morning rush hours, officials said. Passengers could get off anywhere along the trip.
Taxi drivers would decide the best combination of streets and avenues to take from the pickup location to the end point.
Another proposed pilot program would have up to 1,000 cabs marked as “sharecabs.”
A cabbie with a passenger would be allowed to pick up another passenger along the way.
The meter would be programmed to calculate multiple fares at once while offering discounts up to 50% to passengers.
A third plan calls for setting up stands for livery cars as currently exists for taxis.
The goal is to carry more passengers with without expanding the size of the cab fleet while offering savings to riders and bigger earnings for drivers, Daus said.
“It’s really a win-win for everybody if it works,” Daus said.
The city used a temporary group-ride plan during the 2005 transit strike when buses and subways were idle for three days before Christmas.
If two ehrleche yidden who are very vorried about the laws of tzinius get into a taxi together and the driver wasnts to pick up a maidel not dressed properly, the yidden already in the taxi should be able to keep her out of the taxi so they are not, chas va’chalilah, in a lewd situation where they would have to jump out of the taxi. Rav Moseh’e heter for riding the subway or a bus with women would not apply to such close contacts in the back of a taxi.
what’s the difference between a ‘taxi’ and a ‘livery car’
shidduchim are going to come from this
i heard they are starting a mehadren taxi service
These arrangements should not be forced on the general population,”
Omg u guys are too jewish.heter shmeter. Its just a taxi ride and no one is gonna stuff 3 people in the back seat anyways. So u can sit in the same car with another woman. Chill out
#2 …..
taxi is yellow.
livery is not yellow.
in manhattaan, plenty of taxis an livery.
in brooklyn, taxis dont exist.
this will be a great realty tv show