Eric Goldwyn raises a number of good points in this short piece he recently penned for New York magazine. Chiefly among them, is the issue of enforcement and regulation as it pertains to just how encouraging or discouraging this new policy, as proposed by the TLC, will be in helping to move the practice of hailing a [...]

Setting aside the issue of how to measure the success of cab sharing in NYC thus far, one thing can be surmised from the programs that have been proposed by both the current and former commissioners of the TLC, cab sharing will play an important role in New York City’s transportation future.
In light of congestion problems and [...]

Back in 2003, David Yassky took up the campaign to green up the New City Taxi fleet. He proposed presenting legislation that would require a certain percentage of the NYC taxi fleet to use hybrid vehicles by a certain date and for that number to increase over time until the entire fleet had [...]