Sentences with phrase «cab industry»

With the yellow cab industry teetering on the brink of insolvency, New York City is poised to roll out what its top taxi regulator called a «tremendous opportunity»: surge pricing.

Second, this bill would not truly benefit my residents and certainly would hurt the livery cab industry much more than helping the yellow cab companies.

This is a relatively fascinating development, as this was one of those bills that was only «controversial» because one special interest (the yellow taxi cab industry) insisted it was.

Two taxi - medallion owners can't sue a NYC regulatory commission for failing to keep the yellow - cab industry profitable in the face of competition from Uber and Lyft, a Manhattan Supreme Court judge ruled.

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.

I would argue that not one of these five statements describes the pre-UBER cab industry in any material way.

Boris was on his bike when a passing driver apparently accused him of failing to protect the city's black cab industry.

Borough President Stringer visited with members of the livery cab industry at El Barrio Car Service at East 116th Street this past Thurs., Jun. 14th.

Dubbed the «taxi summit,» a meeting Friday of the New York City cab industry's factions and top aides to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Michael Bloomberg is the most visible attempt yet to salvage a stalled proposal to let livery drivers outside Manhattan accept street hails.

Sen. Martin Golden (R - Brooklyn), a Bloomberg ally who sponsored the bill, now wants to change it because of yellow cab industry opposition.

Uber took the taxi cab industry head on by offering a less expensive fare that picks you up vs. having to call and flag a ride down.

Holman said it best in his keynote: «If you as lawyers don't figure out how to better use technology, Silicon Valley will, and will just go around you like Uber did with taxi cab industry.

Two taxi - medallion owners can't sue a city regulatory commission for failing to keep the yellow - cab industry profitable in the face of competition from Uber and Lyft, a Manhattan Supreme Court...

«One of the biggest struggles I had was the fact that many people who were in the yellow cab industry was too yellow to come to Brooklyn,» said Mr. Adams, who arrived more than an hour after Mr. Blake left, as his car was trapped in congested traffic on the Brooklyn - Queens Expressway.

Unlike the cab industry where Uber & Ola had to create demand by leveraging on discounts so that the customer is accustomed to this new lifestyle; maintenance industry on the other hand already has a pre-existing influx of demand.

It is to the insurance industry what Uber is to the cab industry and Airbnb is the hotel industry.

UBER benefitted by taking advantage of the unique circumstances in the cab industry and Manjoo claims that there are virtually no other major industries where those same characteristics apply — crappy customer experience; high, regulator - protected prices; monopolistic markets; huge numbers of daily users; lack of viable alternatives — ergo no more UBERs.

Damn the (naysaying) regulators and the (bloated and inefficient) cab industry — Uber was going to change the way we navigated through our cities.

«Uber can't operate like we're in the wild west here where they just show up and run a paid transportation business without facing a regulatory regime that at least is fair relative to what is faced by the cab industry,» Tory said.

Meanwhile, Michigan has tightened rules for ride - sharing companies like Uber in a bid to ensure a level playing field between ride - sharing and ride - hailing businesses and the cab industry.

The measure is seen as one that could be potentially replicated among transportation authorities and the cab industry around the state.

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer visited with members of the livery cab industry to voice support for the expansion of taxi service to all five boroughs, as had been passed by State Legislature and been signed into law by Governor Andrew Cuomo.

The mayor, who attended the press conference together with Taxi and Limousine Commissioner David Yassky, New York State Assemblymembers Guillermo Linares, of northern Manhattan, and Carl Heastie, of the Bronx, and members of the livery cab industry, spoke to the color as one that was «attractive and distinctive.»

Uber and its opponents in the cab industry are ratcheting up their fight over Uber's proposed expansion in New York.

Drivers are worried that introducing a new category of taxis to the city will kill the livery cab industry.

Companies like Uber and Lyft were prepared to fight legislators over fingerprinting, background checks and mounting opposition from the yellow cab industry, as they seek to expand statewide.

Hoping to prop up the struggling yellow - cab industry, a Manhattan lawmaker is proposing a tested sales technique: two vehicles for the price of one medallion.

The influence that Uber has had on the taxi cab industry is written on every face in Joseph's profound photographic portraiture series, exploring the true impact of the controversial conglomerate giant and questioning the cost of technological revolution.»

But I don't know anyone who thinks taxi services should be provided exclusively by amateurs driving their own cars in their spare time and that the cab industry should be driven into the ground.