Tag: Taxi Limo Commission
On Tuesday, the Taxi & Limousine Commission announced a pilot program to monitor taxi movements using airplane-style black box recorders, the New York Daily News reports. The recorders, which will be installed in 12 cabs to start, will track speeding, acceleration, hard-braking and abrupt turns. Some cabs will also have cameras. The program is part […]
Another chapter unfolded Sunday afternoon in the long saga that is the underground, not-so-on-the-low service of $1 vans in this city when a woman leaped from one of the vans after cops targeted the driver. The unidentified woman jumped from a red Ford Econoline — with Jamaican flags tied to the front bumper and a […]
Getting a cheap ride down Atlantic or Flatbush Avenue may get more difficult, as the NYPD is aggressively going after dollar vans, those unlicensed commuter vehicles that whip up and down Brooklyn’s main drags. The community group Equality for Flatbush is fighting back. “Most drivers are Caribbean or people of color,” Imani Henry, an organizer with the […]
