Sentences with phrase «allow livery drivers»

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She also sought to argue the bill is not a cap — since livery bases would be allowed small growth — and insisted it limited only new vehicles, not new drivers.

At a roundtable talk with cab industry officials and state Assembly lawmakers in Manhattan today, Uber faced pushback from its taxi and livery car competition over a bill they argue would allow less stringent driver background checks, rider safety standards and insurance coverage than NYC requires for the app's drivers.

The bill allows up to 30,000 permits costing $ 1,500 each for livery drivers to pick up street hails in the underserved outer boroughs and parts of upper Manhattan.

Advocates of a bill to allow livery cab drivers to pick up street hails in Upper Manhattan are clamoring for Gov. Andrew Cuomo's support.

He has gotten money to build new schools; passed legislation allowing day care workers to unionize and protecting livery car drivers from violent crimes; and created a scholarship fund for the children of people killed on American Airlines Flight 587, which crashed in Queens in 2001 on its way to Santo Domingo, the Dominican capital.

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