Sentences with phrase «say yellow taxi»

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App - based drivers NY1 spoke with, along with yellow taxi drivers who are already struggling to compete, said they don't think it's a plan that will work.

For yellow cabbies, «it is almost impossible to find work outside of Manhattan, so therefore they will have to pay out of their pockets,» Alexey Medvedovskiy, president of the NYC Taxi Group, said.

For his part, Cuomo said that congestion pricing is a «concept whose future has come» and that the fee for yellow taxis takes into account the financial issues they are encountering.

«Instead of incentivizing Manhattan riders to take public transit, the Assembly plan allows them to hail a yellow taxi to avoid higher fees,» Anfang said.

Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, who sponsored the bill and is himself a former livery driver, said the legislation was intended to level the playing field so yellow - taxi and Uber drivers faced the same licensing requirements.

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.

A federal appeals court says New York City doesn't have to require its fleet of licensed yellow taxis be wheelchair accessible, reversing an earlier ruling and upsetting disability advocates.

Uber objected to the cap, saying de Blasio and the City Council were doing the bidding of the yellow cab taxi industry, which has been among the politicians» largest donors.

I also think many of the concerns and criticisms of Uber could be related to the yellow taxi industry,» Mr. Stringer said.

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.

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

«Reducing the number of Ubers would only hurt the millions of riders outside of Manhattan who have long been ignored by yellow taxis and who don't have access to reliable public transit,» Anfang said.

«When yellow and green cab drivers get paid by cash, they have to move around to complete the transaction,» said New York Taxi Workers Alliance Executive Director Bhairavi Desai.

Now, future generations can look back at Oscar history and say... «What!?!? The director of «Taxi Driver,» «Raging Bull» and «GoodFellas» won an Oscar for «The Departed»?!?» Well, look at it this way: John Ford, famous for great American Westerns like «Stagecoach,» «My Darling Clementine,» «She Wore a Yellow Ribbon,» «The Searchers» and «The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,» won four Oscars for direction, and not one of them was for a Western.