TAXI!

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