Jana Stroe leans out the window of her yellow Ford Crown Victoria taxicab in front of the Hilton hotel in midtown Manhattan. She loves her car. “I’ve driven a Crown Vic for 20 years,” she says. “This cab is specific to America, specific to New York.” Along with the Empire …
Monthly Archives: July 2010
Hack to the future
Ford, Nissan and GM are all vying to be hailed as the builder of the “Taxi of Tomorrow.” The auto giants were among the companies that submitted proposals to the city’s Taxi and Limousine Commission to become the exclusive manufacturer of New York’s 13,000 yellow cabs starting in 2014. When …
TLC admits wheelchair-taxi program a bust
System to dispatch accessible cabs was found to be underutilized; the cost of a call to hail the specialized cabs: $177. The Taxi & Limousine Commission acknowledged yesterday the failure of a recently concluded two-year $1 million program to provide dispatch service to wheelchair users.
Bathrooms at JFK’s Central Taxi hold appalling, cabbi...
Driver Mohan Singh shows the lack of doors at the JFK Main Yellow Cab/Taxi Holding lot bathrooms which serve over 500 drivers on a daily basis and are in serious disrepair. New York City taxi drivers put up with a lot. But even for long-suffering hacks, the stomach-churning toilets they’re …