Tag: Taxis
With the value of taxi medallions dropping and cries for regulations from leaders in the transit industry, Uber is now going to face more scrutiny from city officials. City Council members will meet with representatives of the private car service on Monday to discuss the legality of its controversial “surge pricing” policy among other issues. […]
After reading a recent Businessweek article about how much New Yorkers tip cabbies, Ben Wellington at I Quant NY (IQNY) noticed something weird about the numbers. With some research and analysis, he discovered that half of New York’s cabs calculate tipping differently. That difference generates an extra $5.3 million a year in tips. Businessweek used publicly […]
New York City councilmembers are pretty pissed with Uber, so it’s not incredibly surprising that one councilman has proposed a free taxi e-hail app that would compete with private companies like Uber and Lyft. Councilman Ben Kallos has proposed legislation that would allow New Yorkers to e-hail yellow and green cabs without worrying about surge […]
Though Mayor Bill de Blasio has been pushing for a ban on on horse-drawn carriages since his first week in office, around a year later, the city council is still divided on the issue. De Blasio’s campaign was partially bankrolled by animal rights activists, and now a bill protecting their interests is expected to come […]
New York City’s resilience during Hurricane Sandy wasn’t just a mood that spread across the city — it was a measurable, chartable phenomenon. Researchers noticed that despite the mass chaos that resulted from Manhattan’s partial several-day blackout, taxi drivers were relatively adept at navigating the city. Charting the paths of New York City’s taxis during […]
Whether you’re clinging to the back seat of a cab or narrowly avoiding being hit by one as a pedestrian, it’s a fact of life in New York City that some taxis have dangerous drivers. But not all cab drivers are reckless. In fact, Frederick Amoafo, a 46-year-old cabbie from Queens, was just awarded by the city for having […]
Taxi and Limousine Commission inspectors are allowed to temporarily seize a vehicle of someone they suspect is giving illegal cab rides. According to a report by DNAinfo, they often do this without sufficient proof and don’t follow the proper procedures, sometimes stranding families and individuals without their cars for weeks. In their mission to protect New Yorkers […]
Previously, we posted a map that plotted every taxi trip made around New York in 2013. Now, Chris Whong has given us a tiny crisp slice of that mass blur of data. NYC Taxis: A Day In The Life, is an interactive map of the trips taken in one day in 2013 by a single yellow […]
Uber, the car service and taxi app, hasn’t yet had much of an impact on New York’s yellow cab industry. That might be about to change now that a 20% fare cut will make Uber cheaper than regular taxis reports Tech Times. These price cuts will only be effective for Uber’s cheaper UberX service. Their […]
Next time you wake on Sunday morning to realize your keys, wallet, or phone were lost to the previous night’s escapades, take comfort in the fact that you’re not out 20 grand. DNAinfo examined the city Taxi and Limousine Commission’s lost item reports for the past year and a half to find out what sorts of […]
