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October 26, 2006
Cabs in the City Are Expensive
And getting more so. What a surprise.
A New York minute just got a lot more expensive.That's because the Taxi and Limousine Commission yesterday doubled the cost of being stuck in traffic in a cab.
Riders now pay 20 cents a minute for "wait time" - a price that hasn't changed in 16 years - but yesterday, officials voted unanimously to raise the rate to 40 cents a minute at a meeting in TLC headquarters.
Adding insult to injury, the wait-time rate will now click in when a cab starts going less than 12 miles per hour. Currently, the rate takes effect at under 6 mph.
What WAS the surprise ~ coming from Taxi and Limousine Commission Chairman Matthew Daus' mouth, in the city of the WTC gaping-hole-in-the-ground ~ was this statement:
In addition to the fare hike, the eight-member board also approved:
...*A controversial move eliminating the requirement that cabbies demonstrate they are legal U.S. residents.They now will only have to produce their original Social Security card and a valid driver's license.
"We don't have any business asking people if they are a citizen or not," Daus said.
People who confuse 'legal' with 'citizen' have no business being in such a position. They might confuse other important stuff, wouldn't you think?
Posted by tree hugging sister at October 26, 2006 11:06 AM