Sentences with phrase «green taxis»

As drafted, the legislation would provide those carriage operators who qualify payments to obtain green taxi licenses.

The bill, a de Blasio administration initiative, will offer displaced carriage drivers free green taxi medallions on the condition that they purchase handicapped - accessible cabs.

As of June 2015, the most recent data available when I wrote this, Uber accounts for more than twice as many pickups in Brooklyn compared to yellow taxis, and is rapidly approaching the popularity of green taxis:

News broke late Sunday night that Mr. de Blasio was pushing legislation that would ban the industry, which animal rights activists say harms horses, and offer displaced carriage drivers free green taxi medallions on the condition that they purchase handicapped - accessible cabs.

Outer borough green taxis made 4,058 trips in the Bronx, out of their 55,399, according to the de Blasio administration.

He's passed nine bills in the last three years, including measures to raise the minimum wage, increase penalties for wage theft, and add the light - green taxis for New York's outer boroughs.

It would not be unprecedented for the governor to intervene, as Cuomo went over the heads of City Council in 2011 after they failed to pass a bill on former Mayor Mike Bloomberg's green taxi program.

The bill introduced into the City Council this week would allow for some of them to receive reduced - price green taxi medallions, an offer at which many have scoffed, and also allows for the exploration of other new jobs (electric cars are one possibility that has been floated).

Among Heastie's notable legislative achievements were a 2011 law that cracked down on wage theft and a 2012 bill that created a new class of green taxis to handle street hails in the outer boroughs.

De Blasio initially supported but soon became critical of ex-Mayor Mike Bloomberg's plan to put 18,000 outer - borough green taxis on the streets over three years — a plan that taxi medallion owners see as a competitive threat.

According to the source, the mayor plans to offer displaced carriage drivers free green taxi medallions on the condition that they purchase handicapped - accessible cabs.

Yellow taxis still account for more drop offs in Brooklyn, since many people continue to take taxis from Manhattan to Brooklyn, but even in drop offs, the green taxis are closing the gap.

Once boro taxis appeared on the scene, though, the green taxis quickly overtook yellow taxis so that as of June 2015, green taxis accounted for 70 % of Brooklyn's 850,000 monthly taxi pickups, while yellow taxis have decreased Brooklyn pickups back to their 2009 rate.

Five years after NYC's green taxis were rolled out, the initiative is running on fumes as more drivers switch to black cars, leaving outer - borough street - hailing riders to choose between ride - sharing apps such as Uber and illegal gypsy cabs.

Let's also remember that she supported congestion pricing and the advent of the green taxi industry.

Council Speaker Corey Johnson (D - Manhattan) named Diaz chair of the new committee this month, giving the outspoken 74 - year - old minister subpoena power and oversight of yellow and green taxis, Ubers and other car - service vehicles regulated by the Taxi & Limousine Commission.

Under intense scrutiny, he evolved, allowing both the Taxi of Tomorrow and green taxis to move ahead, and hiring a well - regarded taxi commissioner who helped formulate the Bloomberg - era policies that de Blasio ran against.

It's unclear how the current taxi fleet, already under pressure from app - based competitors that they consider essentially rogue taxi companies, will feel about carriage drivers being jumped to the front of the green taxi medallion line.

He also introduced a bill that increased the number of green taxis that can accept street hails in the outer boroughs, and sponsored a law that releases domestic violence victims from lease obligations if it is found that remaining in the residence would be dangerous to the victim.