New York, NY – Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s plan to expand taxi service outside Manhattan has run into opposition in Albany, sending city officials scrambling to come up with a compromise before lawmakers leave town later this month.
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s plan would create more than a thousand new yellow-taxi medallions—a significant expansion of the 13,000-vehicle fleet on the road now.
Since the latest version of the plan involves selling new medallions, it must win the approval of the state Legislature, a body that has frequently frustrated Mr. Bloomberg.
The new medallions could only be used to pick up customers on the street outside Manhattan. That has angered livery-car services who worry the new cabs will hurt their business.
Some in Albany say that’s probably too much for the city to solve in such a short period of time.
“David Yassky is just throwing every possible plan against the wall hoping something will stick,” said Assemblyman Micah Kellner, a Democrat from the Upper East Side. “They’ve opened Pandora’s box and now they don’t know what to do.”
Just legalize the current practice of livery cabs being hailed. Why, close to my house at a subway station there is an officially marked taxi stand for livery cabs! I’ve never seen a yellow cab in line there.
put regulated meters in outer borough black cars (livery) no need for outer borough medallions. METERS IN OUTER BOROUGH LIVERY CARS……..duh
to # 1 charliehall
be the first -buy a medallion and become a taxi-driver . this way you will do something else besides making dumb comments on VIN. chag sameach all the same.
Reply to #5 .That’s why Ronald Reagan asked the surgeons if they were Republicans
b-4 he let them operate.Med school professors know as much about politics
as politicians know about med school.Better he should be grading his students exams and preparing them for a life of billing ins. companies and how to rip-off medicare, medicaid … etc