Sentences with phrase «outer borough taxi»

De Blasio didn't detail his specific objections to Mayor Michael Bloomberg's outer borough taxi plan, saying we need to «strike a balance.»

A judge's ruling blocking Mayor Bloomberg's outer borough taxi plan has thrown the NYC budget into flux with just two weeks remaining until the end of the fiscal year.

Not exact matches

To fight the proposed cap, Uber then aggressively marketed itself as a service for minorities and outer - borough residents (two groups taxis are notoriously bad at serving) and as a means for New Yorkers to find gainful employment.

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

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.

Five of the six recommendations for making those early mass transit improvements rely in whole or in part on New York City: overhauling the city's parking placard system, which de Blasio has expanded; improving traffic enforcement in New York City, which his NYPD controls; reforming the city system that governs taxis and for - hire companies like Uber; assessing the impact of bus congestion on the central business district; and identifying transit improvements in the outer boroughs.

Cuomo, appearing peeved but highly confident, asked Taxi and Limousine Commission head David Yassky tough questions about the still - being - negotiated bill to allow liveries to pick up street hails in the outer boroughs and in upper Manhattan

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.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg's solution is to offer taxi licenses in the outer boroughs and northern Manhattan to livery cabs, which currently are not allowed to pick up passengers on the street.

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.

That's the attitude of self - satisfied state lawmakers, who may wait until October to return to Albany to pass a range of important measures dealing with President Obama's health - care plan, Mayor Bloomberg's controversial outer - borough taxi deal and a new state labor contract.

The NY Times calls on Cuomo to sign a «useful» bill to expand taxi service to the outer boroughs that was championed by Bloomberg — even if his father, ex-Gov.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Gov. Andrew Cuomo have reached a deal to provide taxi service to the outer boroughs.

Asking for a fare increase as city officials are trying to get a new class of cab in the outer boroughs isn't playing hardball, Bhairavi Desai, executive director of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, told Gotham Gazette today.

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

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.

A derby likely would not connect with the Big Apple's middle - class, taxi drivers, the Seinfelders in the outer boroughs.

«Uber supports fair and progressive congestion pricing, but this proposed tax on ridesharing apps in the outer boroughs could cause you to pay nearly three times the taxes as someone hailing a taxi in Manhattan.

(As a candidate, de Blasio criticized the outer - borough taxi program.)

The legislation is the latest attempt at making taxis more accessible to Upper Manhattan and the outer boroughs.

Queens Democrats came away from a meeting with Korean and Chinese livery and taxi drivers last Friday with concerns about how Bloomberg «s outer - borough taxi plan will affect those drivers.

From the return of functional state government to tax reform to a taxi plan providing better service to disabled and outer borough residents, we are better off today than we were one year ago.

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

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.

Though the legislation had already been approved by both houses, the bill's principal provision was somehow removed amid the flurry of negotiations that restructured the state tax code and created a new class of outer - borough taxis.

Citi Bike now regularly serves 60,000 trips a day, putting bike share on par with taxi trips in the outer boroughs and the Staten Island Ferry.