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The Depressing, Expensive Future of Taxi Prices

It was only in March when one blog’s joyfully shouted the headline: Good News Taxi Riders! No Fare Hikes Planned For This Year. “Only” because, not three months later did Taxi and Limousine Commissioner David Yassky deem a request for a taxi fare hike from cabbies and cab-owners as “reasonable.”

And now, here we stand four months later, as a fare hike is approved. And not a small one, either. Read More

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End of an Era

Are New York City’s Taxis About to Become Significantly More Expensive?

In March, New York City’s Taxi and Limousine Commissioner David Yassky told the City Council’s Transportation Commission that a taxi fare increase wasn’t on the “immediate horizon.” Local news website Gothamist ran with the headline: Good News Taxi Riders! No Fare Hikes Planned For This Year.

Well, we now know what he meant by “immediate horizon.” And it wasn’t “for the next year.” Read More