Sentences with phrase «on yellow taxis»

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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.

On Saturday night of a holiday weekend, only the occasional yellow streak of a speeding taxi obscures the slick blackness of the asphalt.

Somebody should sit Arsene Wenger down, put Joni Mitchell on the stereo and leave him to learn from Big Yellow Taxi that you don't know what you've got until it's gone.

And since I asked that question to myself the other day, and it made me smile which I don't do nearly enough these days, I'm constantly on the look - out for non taxi cab yellow cars.

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.

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.

-- YELLOW CABS COULD BEGIN SURGE PRICING — POLITICO's Dana Rubinstein: 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.&YELLOW CABS COULD BEGIN SURGE PRICING — POLITICO's Dana Rubinstein: 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.&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.»

Albany lawmakers agreed to the first congestion surcharge on black cars and yellow taxis below 96th street.

De Blasio is proposing a 30 - cent surcharge on all taxi rides to make the city's yellow cab and outerborough limousine fleet more wheelchair accessible.

Mayor de Blasio is proposing a 30 - cent surcharge on all taxi rides to make the city's yellow cab and outerborough limousine fleet more wheelchair accessible.

At noon, advocates rally to call on NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and the city council to require all for - hire vehicle operators, including Uber and Lyft, to meet the same 50 percent wheelchair - accessible mandate yellow taxis must meet by 2020, City Hall, Manhattan.

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.

In a metropolis where the patronage of public transport service is already on the low due to the presence of a motorcycle in almost every home, the emergence of these commercial tricycles, popularly known as «yellow yellow» or «Mahama Camboo» is the least development the various taxi unions in the northern regional capital dreamt of.

DE BLASIO TALKS TAXIS: Asked how his $ 350,000 haul from the yellow taxi industry affects his view on taxi policy, De Blasio said, «Well, it doesn't.

Mr. Plouffe has pointed out that the yellow taxi industry, an Uber competitor, showered tens of thousands of dollars on Mr. de Blasio's campaigns.

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.

But the city's proposal has sparked skepticism — stoked by Uber — because it resembles one put forth by the yellow taxi industry, and because anything the de Blasio administration does that helps yellow taxis (no matter how earnestly intentioned) requires the following footnote: the industry donated prolifically to his mayoral campaign even as he parroted their rhetoric on everything from borough taxis to the Taxi of Tomortaxi industry, and because anything the de Blasio administration does that helps yellow taxis (no matter how earnestly intentioned) requires the following footnote: the industry donated prolifically to his mayoral campaign even as he parroted their rhetoric on everything from borough taxis to the Taxi of TomorTaxi of Tomorrow.

Driving the 2008 Mercury Sable around San Francisco, we considered painting it yellow, putting a light on top, and starting a career as a taxi driver.

We could read the ads on top of taxis, but the vibrant yellow we're used to seeing came off looking rather drab.

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.

Similarly, a 1080p video shot outdoors of traffic looked clear and smooth, with accurate yellows and reds on passing cars and taxis.

From Sultanahmet square, the heart of the city, many of the main monuments can be reached on foot or by a network of trams, buses and the bright yellow taxis, whose drivers usually have a modicum of English.

The kits are influenced by the architectural features on the respective cities, with the New York bag inspired by the city's grid - like streets, avenues and iconic yellow taxis, and the Melbourne kits reflecting the city's 19th century buildings, the Yarra river and the coastline.

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.

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.

They're linked, also, by a taxicab - yellow hue (he made them not long before embarking on his more geometric «Taxi Cab» paintings).

Because of rules that Mayor Bloomberg recommended and the Taxi & Limousine Commission voted on, our greenhouse gas emissions are going to be reduced by three quarters of a percent by changes to our yellow taxis and black car and limousines alone.