Sentences with phrase «in yellow taxis»

The surcharges on rides south of 96th Street — $ 2.50 in yellow taxis, $ 2.75 in other for - hire vehicles — are expected to raise more than $ 400 million annually for public transportation.

An UberPOOL ride from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to the East Village in Manhattan which would cost $ 16 in a yellow taxi would cost as little as $ 7.50 with the carpooling alternative, according to fare estimates Uber released with the announcement.

The green cars were meant to fill a gap in yellow taxi service to the outer - boroughs and northern Manhattan.

Uber says the mayor and the City Council are merely trying to appease their donors in the yellow taxi industry.

It's been years since any modern - day Travis could cruise in a yellow taxi along the erstwhile ``...

Not exact matches

It's not that complicated: These drivers are basically fulfilling the role of taxi driver as far as tipping norms are concerned, so add gratuity as though you're in a yellow cab.

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.

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:

Other politicians should not take this as their cue to establish a «Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi Stand» in Swift Current, Sask., or an «Avril Lavigne's Sk8er Boi Skate Park» in Napanee, Ont., and please do not consider a «Taking Care of Business Park» in Winnipeg.

In addition to expanding taxi service to the city's outer boroughs, it would also add 1,500 yellow cab medallion licenses.

Yellow taxis in NYC may begin charging more on Tuesday, ushering in an approved fare increase for riders, whose rates have remained virtually unchanged since 2006.

From Bayside to Brownsville, Uber helps all New Yorkers move around their communities, especially in areas long ignored by yellow taxis and where access to public transit is limited.

While private vehicular traffic, delivery trucks, and yellow taxis are also to blame, the report found that ride - hailing cars spend an average of 11 minutes of unoccupied time during weekdays in Manhattan's business districts

And he, along with other elected officials, filed a lawsuit against Mayor Bloomberg and the Taxi and Limousine Commission for its pilot e-hail program, in which yellow cabs would employ smartphone technology to pick up fares.

Asked for comment, Uber spokesman Matt Wing referred POLITICO New York to a letter the company sent Mayor Bill de Blasio in August noting that Uber's black cars are actually subject to a higher sales tax than the yellow taxi surcharge.

Uber cars were involved in more deadly crashes than yellow cabbies in the second half of 2015, according to data the NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission released.

Queens Rep. Joseph Crowley wants de Blasio to step in to help the struggling yellow taxi industry and its lenders, saying new app - based car services like Uber have led to a big drop in value of the yellow cab medallions.

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.

Mac Roberts, the general manager of East / West Management, a New York City company that operates 120 yellow taxi cab medallions, called upon the Taxi & Limousine Commission, as well as New York State, to better regulate Uber and others, telling the Observer in a memorable anti-Uber rtaxi cab medallions, called upon the Taxi & Limousine Commission, as well as New York State, to better regulate Uber and others, telling the Observer in a memorable anti-Uber rTaxi & Limousine Commission, as well as New York State, to better regulate Uber and others, telling the Observer in a memorable anti-Uber rant:

The money would come from real estate developers, yellow - taxi medallion owners, teachers unions and anybody else willing to play ball in hopes the mayor would return the favors.

It would authorize the City to issue 2,000 new yellow taxi medallions, generating $ 1 billion in much - needed revenue.

«Everywhere I go I see yellow lights and I can see the taxi trade is dying and it grieves me, but it is very, very difficult to fight a huge change in consumer preference.»

An Eritrean immigrant who was 59 and had driven a yellow taxi for the same company for almost half his life died behind the wheel of his cab while parked at the curb in Manhattan, and then his body sat there for 18 hours as no one noticed his death.

The mayor was pummeled by the apps, particularly Uber, which ran ads highlighting the service's popularity with lower - income, minority New Yorkers who were trying to earn some extra money as drivers or were just happy to finally get a cab in a part of town where yellow taxis wouldn't venture.

But while advocates have praised the deal, some critics have raised concerns about its reliance on so - called «one - shot deals,» or cases in which the city relies on funds from non-recurring sources such as the sale of new yellow taxi medallions, or large legal settlements including the CityTime scandal.

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«There are already many more Uber vehicles than there are yellow taxis in New York City, and that's just happened in a few years time.

The data that it does have indicates that while Uber and other taxi apps have had a hard time penetrating the Manhattan market, they've made a much deeper incursion in the outer boroughs and upper Manhattan, where yellow cabs are scarce, but where livery cars and green borough taxis abound.

«However, we can not destroy the traditional livery taxi industry, the yellow taxi industry, in order for the new one to do well.»

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...

For 36 months, scientists tracked 4175 yellow taxis and 12,525 blue taxis from the same Singapore - based fleet; they also used 3 months of data from more than 3000 drivers» GPS logs to rule out differences in driving speed, number of stops, and distance covered as confounding factors.

In New York City, land of the ubiquitous yellow taxi, cabbies and other motorists find themselves with a bit less room to operate these days.

The people, the streets, yellow taxis, wheatgrass shots in the morning, food, skyscrapers, street style and that gorgeous accent... Ah...

While I was in the city I of course had to shoot some new looks — got ta get those NYC scenes in, no yellow taxi cabs in LA... Just plenty of traffic filled with Ubers: p

I have to admit I'm in love with your black and yellow «Taxi» FIAT 500

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Jafar Panahi's Taxi — Jafar Panahi, Iran Canadian Premiere Internationally acclaimed director Jafar Panahi (This is Not a Film) drives a yellow cab through the vibrant streets of Tehran, picking up a diverse (and yet representative) group of passengers in a single day.

The book includes some terrific arrangements of well - known and well - loved songs, such as the Big Yellow Taxi, in two parts.

We left the 2014 GMC Acadia Denali in the parking structure, grabbed a Ford Escape hybrid in disguise as a little yellow taxi and went to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

I cursed every little, yellow Prius taxi in my immediate vicinity.

The maker of the «Taxi of Tomorrow» uses the same NV200 shell, which was chosen to cart customers in Yellow Cab form around America's Gotham City.

The yellow Ford Crown Victoria taxi is so common in New York City that it's almost an icon just like the Yankees or the Empire State Building.

I shielded my eyes from blowing dust as the mango - yellow VI Birds copter settled in the taxi area and its rotors wound down.

He saw them in the streets, always from behind, or turning a corner, his father sitting in the bright yellow taxi next to his, shifting in his seat as the cab screeched away in the opposite direction, his mother — dead six months now, though it felt like one long night — hurrying along the sidewalk on a Sunday morning, turning into a store just when Ben had come close enough to see her face.

Videos of passing traffic taken at a resolution of 720p were bright and colorful; the yellow taxis and green trees in the background especially stood out.

Each journey seems to be an event; whether it's clinging onto the boat taxis to and from the island (our chosen accommodation was the Isle de N'gor surf camp), jumping into one of the many yellow cabs (available in the full range of condition: from «brand new and sparkling to «probably should be in a landfill site») or squeezing far too many hot, sweaty people and battered surfboards into the camp's hot, battered van.

With the largest and safest fleet of Yellow Water Taxis on the harbour, this is one of the top 10 things to do while in Sydney.

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In the year Smithson made Spiral Jetty, Joni Mitchell recorded her eco-pop classic Big Yellow Taxi and Neil Young released his melancholic rustic musings on After the Goldrush.

An unmistakably 1950's brown suit and hat balance in mid-air in front of a hotel tower block, with a yellow taxi cab parked outside.