New York City puts brakes on taxi expansion plan
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration has announced that is putting the brakes on the growth of the new green taxi service that was commissioned to expand street-hail service to the boroughs outside of Manhattan.
The outer-borough taxis debuted a year ago, and more than 5,000 patrol parts of the city that were rarely well-served by the traditional yellow cabs. The city had been authorized to issue an additional 6,000 green cab permits next month, but the mayor’s taxi commissioner indicated late Thursday that they would be delayed.
The commissioner, Meera Joshi, told a City Council hearing that the Taxi and Limousine Commission, which oversees the fleet, wants to further study the program before allowing the expansion.