Sentences with phrase «yellow cabs pay»

An amendment recently tacked onto the proposal would require livery cabs to pony up the same 50 - cent surcharge to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority that yellow cabs pay, Silver said.

The chapter includes a 50 - cent MTA surcharge, like the yellow cabs pay.

Not exact matches

Unlike Uber, New York's yellow cabs prompt riders who pay with credit cards to leave a tip for their drivers.

But he said the surcharge should be the same for all, higher than yellow and green cabs pay now, and be used to fund the emergency plan to fix the subways.

«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.

There's still time to fine - tune any toll scheme on this point: Allow yellow cabs, say, 10 free trips a day into the congestion zone in return for the «crude congestion pricing fee» they've already paid.

Meanwhile, Razmik, an Armenian immigrant who drives a yellow cab, is dealing with two terrible passengers, drunken revelers who barf all over his backseat then try to weasel out of paying their fare («come on, man, it's Christmas!»).