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Letters To The Editor Page 3 • EDITORIAL Embassies, Consolates & By David Pollack Missions in NYC Starts on Page 4 • Insider News 44,865 HIT & RUNS Page 6 New York City is always #1 when it comes to officers to the Collision Investigation Squad, and • everything .But being known for over 44,000 HIT have alerts on TAXI TV Screens so more eyes on Taxi Attorney & RUNS is NOT one of the things New York City the road can do reporting of such incidents and By Michael Spevack should be known for. This is an astro- plate numbers. Page 7 nomical, shameful and unacceptable If a vehicle has an illegal street hail • number that hurts us all in many ways. passenger in the backseat, that driver Puzzle The NYPD has only arrested about 1% of may look to avoid double trouble and Page 7 hit & run drivers but possible solutions actually leave the scene of a minor hit • presented by Councilman Rodriguez, & run. Although the penalties for hit & Carone Continues Call For the Transportation Committee Chair runs are less than for those of a DWI, I Better Wheelchair of the NYC Council will reduce this believe many of the hit & runs are caused Accessibility In Taxiabs number drastically. Council member by drunk drivers who would rather risk Page 11 Rodriquez want to provide Rewards of a hit & run violation than a DWI. All • up to $1,000 for turning in a hit & run this must stop now! The Taxicab Service F’ed with a Feather driver; increase in civil penalties against hit & run Association and the Melrose Taxi Action Center By Larry Fisher drivers, begin a citywide hit & run alert system are in full support of Councilman Rodriquez’s Page 15 similar to Amber Alerts, assign additional police legislation package. • Quotabel Quotes STEP BY STEP GUIDE TO REPORTING ILLEGAL HAILS Page 15 CALL 311 • After you pick a language and you hear a few messages, the automatic response system will say “Briefl y Commissioner’s Corner tell me what I can help you with.” By Merra Joshi Say “Taxi and Limousine Commission.” Page 21 That will get you to a person. • Tell them you have a driver/for hire vehicle complaint. Explain what illegal activity you saw and when and where. Oh What A Year It Was Tell them the license plate number and the make, model and color of the car. By Jerry Kremer They will ask you if you are available for a hearing. Say yes. It’s done over the phone. Page 23 YOU DO NOT HAVE TO APPEAR IN PERSON. • 311 will give you a complaint number and will send you a confi rmation of the complaint. NYC Economy Within 45 days, the TLC will contact you. Page 27 Ask the TLC to send you a copy of the complaint in an email. That way you can check to make sure all • the info is correct. Disruption and Change Be available for the hearing. By Matthew Daus LET’S HELP NEW YORK CITY ENFORCE ITS OWN RULES! Page 29 • Insider Directory TAXI DAVE’S Page 33 • Taxi News From Around RADIO SHOW The World Page 36 WOR-710AM • Broadway Shows 8:00 – 9:00 PM Page 37 EVERY SUNDAY! PAGE 2 • TAXI INSIDER • JANUARY 2017 Get fi rst 5 shifts 1/2 Price! Get Another 5 SHIFTS FREE TAXI DAVE’S Better Cars: 2015-2016 Prius Better Location: RADIO SHOW Steps to Manhattan Subways WOR-710AM Better Prices: Includes Credit Card Fees, Sales Tax & Hybrid Fee: $95 Sunday night, EVERY SUNDAY! $105 Monday & Tuesday night 8:00 – 9:00 PM Call Mitch 917 374 8538 NO DEPOSIT!

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Abmitt Cars With Passenger Columnists Harold the Locksmith Plates Working Subway Marc Albert Dear Taxi Dave, Stop At Pelham Bay I haven’t spoken with you in a long time but I Matthew Daus, Esq. still listen to the show faithfully. Tonight you are Station Bronx touching on the real subject. Traffic in Manhat- Dear Taxi Dave, Tony Falese tan. Before that judge ruling about TLC banned Larry Fisher It’s been very obvious to me for at least a year from taking illegal passenger plate hustlers, there that the city fathers don’t want automobiles in used to be only 2 or 3 “scared” hustlers working Nat Goldbetter Manhattan. They have made it impossible. You the very busy Pelham Bay subway stop, the last cannot get through with the bicycle lanes, with the stop of the #6 train. Now every day there are 12- Ira Goldstein, Esq. bus lanes, with the no turn lanes. As you know I 15 passenger plate cars acting as taxis because of am a service man, cutting across town in Midtown that ruling. How many accidents is it gonna take Abe Mittleman should not take 50 minutes. It should not. I can- by these gypsies with their 25,000 insurance is it Alan Plafker not do my service calls on a skateboard or a little gonna take until something is done....IM SICK blue bicycle. I need the truck with the tools and OF IT. When is it gonna end??? Michael Spevack, Esq. materials inside of it. You are our only advocate. Mitch Keep up the good work Taxi Dave. Locksmiths of NYC Layout & Graphics Harold Streets Of NY Hi Taxi Dave, Dragonfl y Graphics LLC While driving in city become insane nobody City Study BS can move any more ,NYC street it become like a Taxi Dave; parking lot, because of uber ,lyft Via ,bike lane and I don’t trust any study that the city comes up with. stupidity from the DOT,where is the DOT com- Taxi Insider It’s 2 simple facts. There’s an extra 35k plus car which missioner ,TLC commissioner,the Mayor,AND the we didn’t have before and many of the avenues have governor ,those people are responsible to delayed 14 Alexander Drive one less lane. Next time you’re in the city sitting in all 911 calls. traffi c, you’ll notice that 2 of 3 black cars are either Charbel Washingtonville, NY 10992 UBER or Lyft etc... Phone: (718) 706-TAXI(8294) Bernie H. JFK Supervisor @ — Uber’s Lame Defence Taxi Lot Dear Taxi Dave, E-mail:[email protected] Dear Taxi Dave, There is a new company overrunning the JFK Is Uber a car Service or a digital Platform? If Taxi Dispatchers & many of them are new supervi- Copyright © 2017 by TAXI INSIDER. All a pimp gets a girl for a John, he still a pimp no sors & dispatchers. Many of the new ones are very rights reserved. Neither this newspaper nor mater how he goes about it. The end result is go- rude, unprofessional & have a superior complex, any part therof may be reproduced, copied, ing to be a sexual encounter by two people that especially the supervisors. or transmitted in any form, electronic or don’t know each other. The end result of the Uber A recent incident, & this happens many times mechanical including photocopying, mi- scheme is transporting someone from point A to with supervisors with both day/night at the lot, crofi lming, recording or by any information point B, and that is called transportation no matter where because there are too many cabs returning retrieving system without the express written how you slice it. to the shorty lanes & not enough space that they permission of the publishers. The copyright Virgilio Carballo stop sending out regular cabs and only send out is extended to the design and text created shorty cabs. I would say it’s understandable if it’s for advertisements. This publication will Uber Cars busy & they want to send 1 lane of shorty cabs out not be responsible for errors in advertise- Dear Taxi Dave, (10-15) but when cabs are waiting at the regular ment beyond the cost of the space occupied This message is for current taxi drivers, if you lanes for 3 hours, especially when it’s slow, that by the error. Bylined articles represent the have any downturns or slow periods, you should is not fair. I approached the supervisor in the of- sole opinion of the writer and are not neces- know it is likely the cause of Uber cars on the road. fice & respectively asked since we are waiting sarily in accordance with the views of TAXI There is currently, a very important case winding for 3 hours if they can send 1 regular cab out for INSIDER. through the federal courts, if goes the way for the every 2-3 shorty cabs going out. He yelled at me This Publication reserves the right to cabs , Uber cars will fall under regulations that unprofessionally which I wish I had recorded but limit or refuse advertising it deems objec- are not useful to them. Those that have been in will next time. tionable. the industry long enough know, taxis drivers were I respectively ask that the union organizes a TAXI INSIDER is published monthly at earning good numbers at all the times, it was either petition to hand to Port Authority regarding the a subscription rate of $48.00 per year. good or very good, , but it was never slow or bad. (Continued on Page 12) PAGE 4 • TAXI INSIDER • JANUARY 2017 of Comoros 420 E. 50th Street Plaza 885 Second Avenue, 18th Floor Drivers! Many Foreign Visitors This Phone: 212-972-8010 Grenadian, Consulate General of Gre- Time Of Year Are Going To Their nada Costa Rican Consulate in New York, Consul- Phone: 212 599- 0301 Embassies. Here Is A List To Help ate General of Costa Rica in New York 225 West 34 Street Penn Plaza Building, Suite 1202, Guatemalan Consulate 276 Park Avenue Taxi Drivers Get There. Phone: (212) 509-3066 Phone: (212) 686-3837 Embassies, Consolates and Croatian Consulate in New York, Permanent Guyanese Consulate General 370 7th Mission of the Republic of Croatia to the United Avenue 4th Floor Seven Penn Plaza Nations, 820 Second Avenue, 19th Fl. Missions in NYC Phone: 001 212 986 1585 Haitian Consulate 271 Madison Ave. 5th Afghani Consulate in New York, 360 Lex- Phone: (1-212) 682-5392 Floor, Between 39th and 40th Streets ington Ave 11th Floor Croatian Consulate in New York, Consulate Phone: 212-697-9767 212-972-2276 Belgian Consulate in New York, Consulate General of the Republic of Croatia in the United Offi ce Hours: Monday-Friday: 9am-3pm General of Belgium in New York, USA 1065 States of America, 369 Lexington Avenue Honduran Consulate 144 West 37th Street, Avenue of the Americas, 22nd fl oor Phone: +1 212 599 3066 3rd Floor Albanian Consulate in New York 156 Fifth Phone: (212) 586-5110 Avenue, Suite 1A210 Cuban Consulate in New York, Chancellery Hungarian Consulate General 223 East Phone: 12122557381 Belgian Consulate in New York, Permanent of the Republic of Cuba to the United Nations 315 52nd Mission of Belgium to the United Nations in New Lexington Avenue 38th Street Albanian Consulate in New York, United York, United States One Dag Hammarskjöld Phone: 689 7215, 689 9308 Icelandic Consulate General of Iceland 800 States Permanent Mission of the Republic of Plaza 885 Second Avenue, 41st Floor 3rd Avenue, 36th fl oor Indian Consulate 3 Albania in UN 320 East 79th Street Phone: +1/212/378 6300 Cypriot Consulate in New York, Consulate East 64th Street (Between 5th and Madison Phone: 1212 2492059 General of the Republic of Cyprus 13, East 40th Avenues) Belizean Consulate in New York, Permanent Street, 5th Floor Embassy of Andorra/Permanent Mission to Mission of Belize to the United Nations 675 Third Phone: + 1 212 6866016/17 Indonesian Consulate General 5 East the UN, 2 United Nations Plaza, 25th fl r Avenue, Suite 1911 68th Street Phone: 212-750-8064 Phone: (1-212) 986-1240 Czech Consulate in New York, Consulate General of the Czech Republic 321 East 73rd Irish Consulate, Permanent Mission of Ire- Angolan Consulate, Permanent Mission Beninese Consulate in New York, Perma- Str., (between 1st and 2nd Avenue). land, 1 Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, 885 Second of the Republic of Angola to the United Nations nent Mission of the Republic of Benin to the Phone: (646)422-3344 Avenue, 19th Floor 125 E. 73rd Street United Nations 125 East 38th Street Phone: 212 8615656 Phone: (212) 684-1339 Czech Consulate in New York, Permanent Israeli Consulate General 800 Second Mission of the Czech Republic to the UN 1109- Avenue, 13th Floor Angolan Consulate, Consulate General of Botswana Consulate in New York, Botswana 1111 Madison Avenue, (Madison and 83rd Angola 866 United Nations Plaza East 48th Permanent Mission to the U.N., New York, 154 St.). Italian Consulate General, 690 Park Street, 5th fl oor East 46th Street Phone: 646 981 4001 Avenue Phone: (1 212) 980 9615/16 Phone: (212) 8892277 Danish Consulate in New York, Royal Dan- ish Consulate General One Dag Hammarskjold Jamaican Consulate-General 767 Third Antiguan & Barbudan Consulate in New Brazilian Consulate in New York, Brazilian Plaza 885 Second Avenue, 18th Floor Avenue, 2nd and 3rd Floors York Consulate General of Antigua and Barbuda Consulate General in New York 1185 Avenue of Phone: +1 (212) 223 4545 in New York 305 East 47th Street, 6th Floor the Americas (Sixth Avenue) 21st Floor Japanese Consulate General 299 Park Phone: 212-541-4117 Phone: (917) 777-7777 Dominican Consulate in New York, Consul- Avenue ate General of The Dominican Republic 1501 Kazakhstani Consulate General 535 Fifth Argentinian Consulate in New York, Consul- Bruneian Consulate in New York, Bruneian Broadway Suite 410, Avenue, 19 Floor ate General of Argentina in New York, United Permanent Mission in New York, United States Phone: (212) 768-2480 States 12 West 56th Street 771 First Avenue Kuwaiti Consulate, Permanent Mission 321 Phone: (212) 603-0400 Phone: 1 (212) 697 3465 Ecuadorian Consulate in New York, 800 East 44th Street Australian Consulate in New York, Austra- Second Avenue, Suite 600 lian Consulate-General 150 East 42nd Street, Bulgarian Consulate in New York, Consulate Kyrgyzstani Consulate, Permanent Mission 34th fl oor General of the Republic of Bulgaria, New York, Egyptian Consulate in New York, Consulate of the Kyrgyz Republic 866 United Nations Phone: (212) 351 6500 USA 121 East 62nd Street of Egypt 1110 Second Avenue, Suite # 201 Plaza, Suite 477 Phone: (212) 935 4646 Austrian Consulate in New York, Consulate Estonian Consulate in New York, Consulate Lao or Laotian Consulate 317 East, 51st General of Austria in New York, United States Cambodian Consulate in New York, Perma- General of Estonia 3 Dag Hammarskjold Plaza Street 31 East 69th Street nent Mission of the Kingdom of Cambodia to the Suite 6B, 305 East 47th St Phone: (+1) (212) 737 64 00 United Nations 327 East 58th Street Latvian Consulate Permanent Mission 333 Fijian Consulate in New York, The Perma- East 50th Street Bahamian Consulate in New York, Consul Canadian Consulate in New York, The nent Mission of Fiji to the United Nations 630 General of the Bahamas in New York City, USA Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Third Avenue 7th Floor Lebanese Consulate General 9 E. 76th 231-East 46th Street Nations, 1 Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, St. Phone: (212) 421-6925 Phone: 848 1100 Finnish Consulate in New York, Consulate General of Finland 866 United Nations Plaza Liberian Consulate General 866 United Bahraini Consulate in New York, Permanent Canadian Consulate in New York, Consulate Suite 250 Nations Plaza, Suite 478 Mission of the Kingdom of Bahrain to the United General of Canada 1251 Ave. of the Americas Nations 866 Second Avenue 14th fl oors Phone: (212) 596 1628 French Consulate in New York, Consulate Libyan Consulate, Mission 309 East 48th Phone: (212) 223-6200 General of France 934 Fifth Avenue Street Chilean Consulate in New York, Permanent Bangladeshi Consulate in New York, Con- Mission of Chile to the United Nations 885 General Consulate of Georgia, 144, East Malawian Consulate Mission 866 United sulate General of Bangladesh in New York, USA Second Ave.; 40 fl oor 44 th St., 5 th Floor Nations Plaza, Suite 486 211 East 43rd Street, Suite 50 Phone: (917) 322- 6800 Phone: (212) 599 6767, (212) 599 6850 German Consulate, United States al of Malaysian Consulate 313 East 43rd St. Chilean Consulate in New York, Consulate the Federal Republic of Germany 871 United Bangladeshi Consulate in New York, The General of Chile in New York, 866 Nations Plaza (1st Avenue between 48th and Malian Consulate Permanent Mission of Mali Permanent Mission of Bangladesh to the United 49th Street) to the United Nations 111 East 69th Street Nations 820 2nd Avenue, 4th Floor United Nations Plaza , Suite 601 (1st Avenue Phone: 212-867-3434 & 48th Street) Ghanaian Consulate, Ghana Permanent Marshallese Consulate Permanent Mission Phone: (212) 980-3366 / 980-3504/ 355- Mission to the UN, 19 East 47th Street Phone: of the Marshall Islands to the United Nations Barbadian Consulate in New York, Consul- 0612 212 832 1300 800 Second Avenue, 18th Floor ate General of Barbados in New York, United States 800 Second Avenue, 2nd Floor Chinese Consulate in New York, Chinese Greek Consulate Consulate General of Mauritian Consulate Permanent Mission of Phone: (+1) (212) 867-8435 Consulate General 520 12th Ave. Greece 69 East 79th Street Mauritius 211 East 43rd Street, 15th Floor Phone: 001-212-2449456 (212) 988-5500 Belarusian Consulate in New York, Consul- Mexican Consulate 27 East 39th. Street ate General of the Republic of Belarus in New Comoran Embassy in New York City, Greenlandic Consulate, Royal Danish York, USA 708 Third Avenue, 20th Floor Embassy of the Federal and Islamic Republic Consulate General, One Dag Hammarskjold (Continued on Page 18) JANUARY 2017 • TAXI INSIDER • PAGE 5 PAGE 6 • TAXI INSIDER • JANUARY 2017 Insider News Comments From Drivers! NEW YORK CITY TAXI AND Uber drivers never signal. Doesn’t the Mayor care about Vision Zero? I see people hailing and getting into LIMOUSINE COMMISSION Uber cars when a yellow cab is right Where are the statistics on Emer- behind. Notice of Public Hearing and Op- ments will be available to the public gency vehicle response times? I know portunity to Comment on Proposed at the Office of Legal Affairs. the Uber traffi c is costing lives. I drive a Prius and my knees almost Rules What authorizes the Commission hit the dashboard. I will sue the city What are we proposing? The to make this rule? Sections 1043 and Uber cars are blatantly dangerous. if my knees break from an accident. I Taxi and Limousine Commission is 2303 of the City Charter and section This morning an Uber car was in the don’t see Uber Prius’s. considering changing rules that ad- 19-503 of the City Administrative middle lane of 8th Avenue and made dress the risks of fatigued driving and Code authorize the Commission to a left turn without signaling. I see this Drivers should make dispatcher adding trip reporting requirements make this proposed rule. This pro- all day. complaints at JFK at building 14. for for-hire vehicle bases. posed rule was not included in the When and where is the Hearing? Commission’s regulatory agenda for When it comes to Uber, they get a I wonder how many accidents Uber The Commission will hold a public this Fiscal Year because it was not pass on enforcement. cars cause. Where can I see accident hearing on the proposed rule. The contemplated when the Commission statistics. public hearing will take place at published the agenda. So much of the traffi c in midtown is 10:00 a.m. on January 5, 2017. The Where can I find the Commis- caused by double parked Uber cars. A 10 shift will make it very hard to hearing will be in the hearing room sion’s rules? The Commission’s rules pay our Medallion bills. Please help at 33 Beaver Street – 19th Floor, New are in Title 35 of the Rules of the City The rattling of my Sienna is killing and request the TLC to stick with a 12 York, NY 10004. of New York. me and my passengers hate it! hour shift please!! This location is wheelchair acces- What rules govern the rulemaking sible and CART will be provided in process? The Commission must meet $28,000 FARE the meeting room. the requirements of Section1043 of Apparently, a woman in PhiIadelphia had over $28,000 held on her checking How do I comment on the pro- the City Charter when creating or account for one UBER ride. She reportedly received a letter form UBER stating posed rules? Anyone can comment changing rules. This notice is made her info had been hacked and then another letter staing the fi rst letter was wrong on the proposed rules by: according to the requirements of Sec- and Uber’s engineers would fi x it. Lucky she checked her account! • Mail. You can mail written com- tion 1043(b) of the City Charter. ments to the Taxi and Limousine STATEMENT OF BASIS AND Press Conference 1/4/2017 Commission, Office of Legal Affairs, PURPOSE OF RULES Story and photo by David Pollack 33 Beaver Street – 22nd Floor, New This proposed rule amends a rule Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez addressing the Press at a Press Conference York, New York 10004. that the Taxi and Limousine Com- regarding “Hit and Runs” on the steps of city hall. • Fax. You can fax written com- mission (TLC) adopted in July 2016 Joined by David Pollack from the yellow taxi industry, members of Transpor- ments to the Taxi and Limousine to address the risks of fatigued driv- tation Alternatives and the mother of pedestrian fatalities, Councilman Ydanis Commission, Office of Legal Affairs, ing. The proposed rule incorporates Rodrequez outlined a plan that would provide $1,000 for information leading at 212-676-1102. feedback from the industry since the to the arrest of violators; and other signifi cant changes to the city and state law. • Email. You can email written adoption of the initial rule. The pro- (See Editorial) comments to [email protected]. posed rule also adds new reporting • Website. You can submit com- requirements for the for-hire vehicle ments to the Taxi and Limousine (FHV) sector that will support the Commission through the NYC rules regulation of fatigued driving and Web site at www.nyc.gov/nycrules. assist TLC with enforcement initia- • By Speaking at the Hearing. tives in other areas. Anyone who wants to comment on Background the proposed rule at the public hear- Long hours driving on the road can ing must sign up to speak. You can lead to fatigue and reduced sleep, and sign up before the hearing by calling compounded over time, may result 212-676-1135. You can also sign up in chronic fatigue. For drivers, this in the hearing room before the hear- means slowed reaction times and a ing begins. You can speak for up to reduced ability to assess situations three minutes. quickly, increasing the danger of Is there a deadline to submit driver errors and the risk of crashing. written comments? Yes, you must Additionally, research has shown that submit written comments by Janu- being awake for 18 hours results in ary 2, 2017. impairment equal to driving while Do you need assistance to par- under the influence of alcohol (DUI), ticipate in the Hearing? You must and that being awake for 24 hours tell the Office of Legal Affairs if results in impairment equal to 1.25 you need a reasonable accommoda- times the threshold for driving while tion of a disability at the Hearing. intoxicated (DWI). You must tell us if you need a sign Although almost all TLC-licensed language interpreter. You can tell us drivers do not drive an excessive by mail at the address given above. number of hours, TLC recognized You may also tell us by telephone at that a small number does and that 212-676-1135. You must tell us by some drivers may be tempted to work Friday, December 30, 2016. dangerously long hours. Therefore, Can I review the comments made in support of the City’s Vision Zero on the proposed rules? A few days initiative to reduce traffic fatalities, after the hearing, a transcript of the TLC adopted rules in July 2016 to ad- hearing and copies of the written com- dress the risks of fatigued driving. Before establishing in these rules WANT TO MAKE MORE $ EVERY DAY? the maximum number of hours that licensed taxi and FHV drivers may JUST DRIVE AN ACCESSIBLE MEDALLION! (Continued on Page 15) JANUARY 2017 • TAXI INSIDER • PAGE 7 The Taxi Attorney January Taxi Driver Puzzle REVOCATION FOR Please fight every yellow or pink THE HOLIDAYS ticket you receive from NYPD and Do you know the stories behind each word? Hello everybody, I every TLC ticket you You would if you listened to Taxi Dave’s Radio hope that you are work- receive. If you are un- Show, Sunday’s at 8:00 PM on WOR710. Brought ing hard and making certain whether to use an good money. attorney for a particular to you by Melrose Credit Union. You will also Please be aware that ticket, please come see understand the puzzle better if you read our TLC has been enforc- me and I will tell you, articles. ing revocation for a no charge, if the ticket combination of DMV has points and you do or J F K T N E S A E R C N $ and TLC points. For do not need an attorney T S U R A M W H O T Y I H instance, if you have a or representative for a 5 point DMV electronic particular summons. N I L G U N F A I R R E E device ticket and a 3 Sixth, please take the C B L E C G R S E L U T L point failure to yield defensive driver course to pedestrian at DMV every 18 months. Do not L A G U A R D I A T R A P and a TLC customer complaint for wait three years to take the DDC G U T S A W A S H E S F N talking on a cell phone for which class that takes points off of your you plead guilty at TLC yielding 3 NYS driver’s license. Please take N G R M A C H N A H C F O points. Boom. You are revoked! Be the course every 18 months so if careful with TLC tickets, including TLC sends you a letter to suspend I L S Y H Y B G E . E I I settlement offers from TLC. Make or revoke your Hack or TLC license D N G G I T R I D O H C T sure that you contact a lawyer be- you will have taken the class before fore merely paying a TLC or DMV you get such TLC letter. Now TLC is I O D H B E A M S R E F I ticket. It is important. Talk to me allowing you to take a course which O R P R O B L E M G P E T and I will try to protect your license takes 3 points off your DMV record and job. I am available to help and according to TLC calculations after V M 2 B U Y A M D A L L I offer a free initial consultation at you get a letter from TLC saying A N C O R R U P T I O N O 212.754.1011. you have a suspension or revocation Second, please be careful not to coming to you. Also, if you get found D V E N U E S B W A Y 1 0 talk on your cell phone in your taxi. guilty of a DMV summons it may be 1 0 H O R S U S R A E Y 0 At DMV court in the City, it is ex- best to take a DDC course AFTER tremely difficult to get a cell phone/ the guilty finding at TVB or in other Find the following words/accronyms in the puzzle above electronic device ticket dismissed. NYS traffic court. Moreover, there • NEW SHORTY RULES • $HELP * Judges are hesitant to dismiss such is a persistent violator course avail- tickets because they are so serious. If able to reduce TLC points which * AVOIDING LAGUARDIA TRAFFIC • you are found guilty by a judge of an are now being combined with DMV electronic device or cell phone ticket points and can result in your los- • LUGG NUTS • CHIEF CHAN • then you will receive a whopping ing your TLC license very quickly • CAR WASHES • JFK TRAM • 5 points on your DMV license! Be if you speed or talk on your cell careful. Cell phone and electronic phone while driving. Basically, any • 2ND AVE SUBWAY 100 YEARS • device tickets also carry points at moving violation now puts you in • CHANGE ORG PETTITION • TLC. I can save you the points in jeopardy. Call me at 212.754.1011 a plea bargain with TLC in many if you want to discuss your DMV or • SLIDING DOOR PROBLEM • instances. TLC tickets. Third, if you are arrested and you Also, please note that I will do an • CAMRY HYBRID • 10 HOURS • possess a TLC license, it is impera- excellent job advocating for you at a • HIGH BEAMS • TNC BILL • tive that you hire the best criminal fair and reasonable price, and I have attorney that you can afford. This been doing this business for 20 years •SURGE UNFAIR • BUY A MEDALLION • is so because TLC will hold your now and really know what I am do- license ing. Please call me at 212.754.1011 simply pay such a summons without gal needs. Until next month, be well. until the criminal case is finished or 866.LAW.MIKE to discuss your any negative consequences. My fee Mr. Spevack thanks you for read- and the TLC will take it permanently DMV or TLC problem. is reasonable to go to court for you ing this article which is for enter- from you if the criminal matters is Seventh, January is usually a slow for pink summonses, and you most tainment purposes only and does NOT resolved to the TLC’s satisfac- month for taxi drivers in New York often do not need to go to court and not constitute legal advice. For legal tion. I work with a very high quality City. It is a good time to handle I can obtain zero points for you. But, advice, contact Mr. Spevack.http:// criminal attorney who can speed up your administrative tasks such as please call me at 212.754.1011 to www.trafficticketnyc.com . criminal matters and obtains excel- taking care of traffic tickets or TLC discuss this with me and don’t wait See his advertisement on page 30 lent results, so please call me at tickets or parking tickets which you for the day before court to call me. of this issue. 212.754.1011 if you get arrested. received in November and December Thank you for reading this article. This article does not reflect the Fourth, please listen to the Taxi of 2016 but were too busy to handle. Call me at 212.754.1011 for all your le- opinion of the publisher. Dave radio show on 710 am WOR, on Please see your lawyer or rep now to Sunday evenings between 8pm and take care of these summonses. I am 9pm. David Pollack is the host. He available at 212.754.1011 to discuss Listen to Podcasts of is smart, entertaining, informative your ticket situation. Do not delay and best of all, knows the truth about obtaining a lawyer for tickets. It is what is happening in your Industry. super important to have a relation- The Taxi Dave Show Moreover, he has the highest rated ship with an attorney you trust to show on radio in his time slot in the help keep you in business during NYC Metro area! So, please tune in 2017 and beyond! and Read Taxi Insider to listen. Eighth, if you receive a pink sum- Fifth, remember to bring me mons, please call me at 212.754.1011 your DMV and TLC tickets. It is to discuss it. Sometimes it makes on-line @ important to fight all your DMV sense to use a lawyer to help you fight (issued by NYPD) and TLC tickets. a pink summons, which is a criminal Be careful. Don’t skimp on the law- summons with ramifications beyond NYCTAXINEWS.COM yer only to lose your license later. 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If you need [email protected] to turn, stop, turn in small steps, and then continue walking. JANUARY 2017 • TAXI INSIDER • PAGE 11 Carone Continues Call For Better Wheelchair Accessibility In Taxicabs Frank Carone, executive partner at vehicles.” Abrams Fensterman, has renewed his Current regulations require 50 per- call for 100 percent wheelchair acces- cent of yellow taxis to be wheelchair sibility in all New York City taxis and accessible by 2020 and 30 percent of said that something has to be done to green taxis to meet that standard by force for-hire companies, like Uber 2024. Carone would like to see those and Lyft, to help in this effort. numbers eventually reach 100 per- In 2011 there were just 231 wheel- cent, but knows that it won’t happen chair-accessible cabs in New York City. without regulations in place for the Today, there are more than 1,700. The for-hire industry. He’d like to see the difference, in part, was a regulation that for-hire industry, which also includes Carone helped to pass while he was with black cars, have at least 25 percent the NYC Taxi and Limousine Commis- wheelchair accessibility. sion that created a 30-cent surcharge for “During my tenure on the TLC, we all taxi rides. Now that Uber and Lyft heard from many wheelchair-using have become popular there is nothing New Yorkers frustrated at their in- compelling these companies to provide ability to easily move around town, for the disabled. such as a Bronx resident who had to “At the time that we were able take a bus to an accessible subway to approve a 30-cent surcharge per station, then two trains and another ride to pay to get yellow and green bus to visit a friend in the hospital,” cabs ADA complaint there was no Carone wrote in his Daily News edi- phenomenon known as ride-sharing, torial. “A wheelchair-accessible cab Uber or Lyft,” Carone said. “That has or livery would have made the trip then totally changed the landscape of far easier.” for-hire services through the city of His proposal that he discussed in New York.” the Daily News would allow base sta- “My view today is the natural tions to dispatch cars out of their own purchasing new equipment. sibility,” Carone said. “It will also evolution is not to merely require class, meaning that companies could He explained to the Brooklyn impact tourism, productivity and one segment of the industry, namely dispatch any wheelchair-accessible Eagle that he is not proposing a a fundamental right of those in a yellow medallions,” Carone said. “We car through a shared database. So if surcharge on Ubers/Lyfts and black wheelchair to enjoy the cultural, social now have over 100k new vehicles on Lyft got a call for a wheelchair-acces- cars because, unlike yellow and green and economic benefi ts that NYC has the road, [and] the proper rulemaking sible car, it could arrange a green taxi cars, which are regulated by the TLC, to offer. The TLC staff has crafted a can really correct this long, funda- to pick up that customer if it had none those companies are free to set their plan that is economically feasible, mental fl aw in our industry — lack available. He explained that it would own prices. eminently achievable and will ac- of service for the most vulnerable guarantee plenty of available cars, “This is important if we are ever complish what I will hope for — real of our city, those needing accessible while also sharing the cost burden of going to get to 100 percent acces- accessibility.” PARKING RATES AT AIRPORTS NYCDOT Press Conference TO INCREASE By David Pollack Increases designed to manage parking 8, 2017. NYCDOT Commissioner Polly from the NYPD, fewer parking tick- demand in busiest central terminal areas, The daily maximum rate at Newark’s Trottenberg gloated in the Kipps ets, less of the problem of the meter while maintaining lower-cost option for closest central terminal lots will increase Bay neighborhood as she showed running out.” long-term parking customers from $33 to $39 per day, and the daily off the newest way to pay for your The app also allows meter payers Beginning December 10, 2016, the maximum rate at JFK’s highest-demand parking meter: use your cell phone. to pay the meter when it first starts in maximum daily parking rate in central Green/Red/Orange lots will go from $33 to Midtown Manhattan will be the first the morning from your home or office. terminal area parking lots at LaGuardia $35 per day. Long-term parking rates will part of the city to be able to download New Yorkers who set up an account Airport (LGA) will increase to $59. The remain at $18 per day at both airports. the ParkNYC app and pay for your on the app will put in an initial $25, maximum daily rate for P10, LGA’s The scheduled rate increases are MuniMeter. Parkmobile runs park- which they will then draw from for long-term lot, will remain $18 as part of designed to manage parking demand in ing apps in over 30 cities across the parking costs. There are no transac- an ongoing holiday promotion lasting the busiest central terminal areas of each United States and is operating the tions fees to use the program, and the through December 31, 2016. After that, airport, while preserving a cost-effective NYC app. Polly also stated that the city will cover the cost of the credit it will return to its regular rate of $39 per long-term parking alternative for custom- app will let you know when you have card processing fee. day, maintaining a lower-cost long-term ers. The maximum daily parking rate has 5 minutes “left on the meter.” NYPD Transportation Chief parking option for customers. not changed since June 1, 2009 at JFK and “It’s a huge convenience,” said Thomas Chan said traffic enforce- Hourly rates at LaGuardia’s premium EWR, and since July 15, 2014 at LGA. DOT Commissioner Polly Trotten- ment agents will be able to scan the central terminal area parking lots will in- The hourly rate has not changed since July berg said. “We’re hoping that will vehicle and see that it was paid by crease from $8 per hour to $10 per hour, 1, 2013 for all three airports. mean, perhaps, less enforcement the app. subject to the maximum daily rate. City Council Transportation Chair LaGuardia central terminal area Ydanis Rodriguez said this is only parking lots adjacent to the terminals the beginning, and innovations like are expected to be at capacity during dynamic pricing based on supply and peak periods. Lot P10, which offers an demand is not too far off. on-airport parking alternative with free “Any time saved for New York- shuttle service to all terminals, is expected ers is valuable. We know how busy to have substantial capacity at a reduced and quick paced our lives are, and rate. To mitigate roadway congestion how important those moments are,” for vehicles picking up and dropping off Rodriguez said. “With upgraded passengers, the fi rst three hours of park- technology in our meter system, we ing for customers in the Hourly Parking can soon begin to take even bigger Lot P5 are free. steps.” Daily parking rates at Newark Liberty Trottenberg said this technology International Airport (EWR) and John opens “the door up to a smarter and F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) more tailored parking policy” for will also increase on or about January the future. PAGE 12 • TAXI INSIDER • JANUARY 2017 LETTERS

(Continued from Page 3) above concerns as well as other cabbies join in Editor’s Note: It is against the law for ANY SHL and complain at building 14 at JFK airport. (Green Car)to pick up a fare in the exclusionary Tommy zone. Any sighting of this illegal action should be reported to the TLC with the day, time, location and Posted At My Garage plate number, in order for action to be taken. How I see it Dear Taxi Dave, Let’s say the federal government leases a tract of ocean to a corporation for exclusive oil explora- tion, after a while the government gets silly and lets everyone explore for oil , do we not think that the government should at the least give the money back to that company, give me a break! Michael Simon LGA Dear Taxi Dave, Good luck to get in and out La Guardia air- port. It’s like a maze and a Big mess. Also being charged more in your bank statement than what you use, it is like the mafia taking all money and not doing nothing Avner haleah port authority brass & JetBlue brass to prolong and move the taxi lanes, like star was, in a galaxy far far away & the same for terminal b of LGA. Radio Seems like they are pushing passengers to use Dear Taxi Dave! rideshare apps and get picked up by them in front. Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas! Also, there seems to be a lack of cracking down Would be nice for the environment and our during the busy holiday season with people solicit- future, if TLC and the city will change that WAV ing passengers, especially the areas where there’s taxicabs programs and demanding hybrid and construction & passengers don’t want to walk a electric taxis! Hybrid taxis are vanishing, getting mile to get into a cab. I don’t see any cops patrol- retired! WAV CABS TAKES MORE SPACE, ling the arrivals area but I see security presence & and no room to pull over!Top of that those WAV the national guard patrolling the departures. cabs aren’t really fuel efficient cars compared to Tommy hybrid taxis! Stephen B. How Is This Possible? Dear Taxi Dave, Taxi Pickup Lines @ Wow! Uber can really get away with murder! is it because many politicians profited from Uber? Airports I remember seeing many political flyers in the Dear Taxi Dave, Bronx with the pictures of candidates next to Feels like port authority is treating the yellow Uber. disgusting! taxi drivers like a red headed step child. W Laman Looks like rideshare apps (Uber) influenced the

Pat Green Cabs in Midtown Dear Taxi Dave, I know someone who summoned an uber in midtown and got a green cab. I know uber is working with all 80,000 cars on the road BUT what about rule 82-13 (a)(1) which states “A street Hail Livery Licensee must ensure that the Driver of the Street Hail Livery accepts pax by hail from the street only in the Hail Zone and does not accept a Pre-arranged trip beginning in the Pre-arranged Exclusionary Zone. This is crystal clear. How can this be hap- pening? PS it’s a $500 fine! Carolyn JANUARY 2017 • TAXI INSIDER • PAGE 13 Can Uber Ever Deliver? corporate overhead and profit. [1] year and $13.25 per hour (in 2015 These percentages can vary slightly dollars).[3] Part Two: Understanding Uber’s depending on fuel price swings and Uber needed extraordinary traffic local practices, but reasonably reflect and revenue growth in order to fuel Uncompetitive Costs the relative size of the four cost cat- the growth of its (now $69 billion) This is the second of a series of This article presents evidence egories at traditional operators under financial valuation. In addition to the articles that will use data on industry about the cost structure of traditional current conditions. massive subsidies for uneconomical competitive economics to address the operators, and evaluates, based on Uber is the Industry’s High Cost fare and service levels needed to shift question of whether Uber’s aggres- Uber’s actual practices and historical Producer passengers away from traditional sive efforts to completely dominate industry evidence, whether Uber has Can Uber produce urban car ser- operators, Uber needed to subsidize the urban car service industry has a meaningful cost advantage in any of vices more efficiently — at sustain- uneconomical driver compensa- (or will) increase overall economic these cost categories, or the potential ably lower cost — than traditional tion premiums large enough to get welfare. to achieve substantially lower unit operators? Can Uber’s success in hundreds of thousands of drivers to A positive answer to this question costs as it grows. Can Uber’s mas- driving incumbents out of business abandon other operators and sign up requires clear evidence that Uber can sive losses and investor subsidies be and achieving the largest venture with Uber. (or is on the verge of being able to) justified as an “investment” that will capital valuation in history be ex- Uber’s above-market driver com- operate on a sustainably profitable yield returns in the near future once plained by a powerful competitive pensation meant its drivers were often basis in a competitive market, clear its potential efficiency advantages efficiency advantage? more professional and drove better evidence that Uber can produce urban (and scale economies) kick in? If one examines the four com- maintained cars than their lower paid car service significantly more effi- Uber Extended the Industry’s ponents of industry cost it becomes counterparts. In a competitive market ciently than the traditional operators Longstanding Segregated (Corpo- apparent that the opposite is true. drivers would have no incentive to it has been driving out of business, rate/Driver) Business Model Uber not only lacks the major cost drive for Uber if it paid the same as compelling evidence that Uber’s busi- When considering financial and advantage that a company seeking traditional operators (why take on ness model is based on major product/ cost data, keep in mind that taxi to drive incumbents out of busi- all the vehicle expense and risk for technological/process breakthroughs service is provided under a two-part ness would be expected to have, the same $12-17/hour Yellow Cab that create huge competitive advan- business model, with drivers clas- but actually has higher costs than pays?) And it would be impossible tages incumbents could not match, sified as independent contractors. traditional car service operators in for Uber to ever achieve a driver cost and that Uber can earn returns on the Since the 1970s most traditional taxi every category, except for fuel and advantage over incumbents without $13 billion its investors have provided companies have actually been leasing fees where no operator can achieve paying significantly less than tradi- within the normal workings of open, companies; drivers pay a fixed lease a cost advantage. tional operators, which would require competitive markets, while ensuring fee covering the costs of vehicle These structurally higher costs pushing average take-home wages that the gains from its efficiency and ownership and maintenance and are fully consistent with the ongo- down to (or perhaps below) minimum service breakthroughs are shared with corporate overhead services such as ing, multi-billion dollar losses docu- wage levels consumers. dispatching, branding/marketing and mented in part one of this series, and Higher vehicle costs. It is incon- To state the question another way, credit card processing. Traditional the finding that Uber’s rapid growth ceivable that hundreds of thousands does Uber’s meteoric growth and drivers retain all of the money paid is driven by massive investor subsi- of independent, poorly financed unprecedented $69 billion valuation by passengers, but pay for gas and reflect an efficient reallocation of bear the risk that fare revenue on a resources from less productive to given shift might not be enough to more productive uses? provide meaningful take home in- The first article presented evi- come after covering the leasing fees dence that Uber is a fundamentally and the workman’s comp and health unprofitable enterprise, with negative insurance costs taxi companies do 140% profit margins and incurring not pay for. larger operating losses than any The Uber model takes the con- previous startup. Uber’s ability to tracting model further by addition- capture customers and drivers from ally shifting all vehicle costs and dies, and not by superior service or Uber drivers Uber could ever achieve incumbent operators is entirely due to capital risk to drivers. Uber takes efficiency. lower vehicle ownership, financing $2 billion in annual subsidies, funded 30% of passenger revenue but only The first two rows on Exhibit 1 and maintenance costs than profes- out of the $13 billion its investors provides corporate overhead services. quantifies the difference between the sional fleet managers at a reasonably have provided. That P&L evidence To evaluate questions of efficiency two business models. Traditional taxi managed traditional operator, or do a shows that Uber did not achieve any and competitiveness one needs to leasing companies pay 33% of these better job balancing long-term asset meaningful margin improvement consider the entire (corporate+driver) costs (vehicle and corporate costs) costs against local market revenue between 2013 and 2015 while the lim- business model since neither business plus the vehicle capital risk; since the potential. Shifting operating costs ited margin improvements achieved model can work in the marketplace Uber model shifts vehicle costs and and capital risk from Uber’s investors in 2016 can be entirely explained unless both the corporate entities and risks to drivers, they are only covering onto its drivers does not eliminate by Uber imposed cutbacks to driver their driver contractors can achieve 15% of the total cost structure and them from the overall business model, compensation. reasonable earnings. bear none of the capital risk. and actually makes them higher. 85% of Taxi Costs Are the Di- Thus there is no basis for assum- Higher driver compensation. Re- Every other transport industry rect Costs of Vehicles, Fuel and ing Uber is on the same rapid, scale cent in-depth studies from Chicago, depends on highly centralized man- Drivers economy driven path to profitability Boston, New York and Seattle show agement using highly sophisticated that some digitally-based startups There are four major components that the 58 cents retained by tradi- systems to ensure that capital as- achieved. In fact, Uber would require of urban car service costs: driver tional taxi drivers provides hourly sets are highly utilized and tightly one of the greatest profit improve- compensation (take home pay plus the take-home rates in the $12-17 range scheduled around market demand. ments in history just to achieve benefit costs they must cover), fuel (in 2015 dollars) and that full-time The Uber business model implies breakeven. and fees directly related to passenger drivers can only realize those hourly that all these industries are horribly Unlike other well-known tech service (credit card fees, airport ac- averages if they work 60-75 hours wrong; decentralizing asset purchas- “unicorns,” Uber has not created a cess fees, tolls, cell phone charges), a week.[2] True pre-tax earnings ing, maintenance and scheduling to totally new product or dramatically vehicle ownership and maintenance, are even lower since workman’s isolated low-wage workers would not redefined a traditional market; it is and corporate overhead and profit compensation, health insurance and only reduce costs, but create an ef- not “disrupting” incumbent opera- (including dispatching and branding/ some miscellaneous expenses must ficiency gain large enough to drive all tors with a totally new way of doing marketing). Detailed cost data from be covered out of take-home pay. incumbent operators out of business. business but is driving passengers studies of traditional operators in Recognizing that big city taxi driv- No one has produced any economic from point A to point B in cars, just Chicago, San Francisco and Denver ers are forced to work much longer evidence demonstrating that the Uber like traditional urban car service op- showed that 58 cents of every gross hours than typical drivers, this data view might be correct. erators always have. To achieve the passenger dollar (fares plus tips) went is consistent with Census Bureau Higher dispatch and corporate overwhelming industry dominance to driver take home pay and ben- analysis which estimated the average costs. Traditional taxi owners take that Uber is seeking it would need efits, 9 cents went to fuel and direct wages in the broad category of taxi 15 cents of each passenger dollar to to find ways to provide service at fees, 18 cents went to vehicle costs and limousine driver as $32,444 per substantially lower costs. and the remaining 15 cents covered (Continued on Page 14) PAGE 14 • TAXI INSIDER • JANUARY 2017 UBER matically as it expanded outside the industry dominance is to be justifi ed on (2006). Seattle drivers earned $12.14/ United States. economic welfare terms. The fi ndings hour working 10.2 hours per day; (Continued from Page 13) Uber also has no potential to that Uber is the industry’s high cost Chicago drivers earned $12.94/hr @ cover dispatching, corporate over- exploit the network economies that producer and lacks any meaningful 12.8 hrs/day; Boston drivers earned head and profit while Uber currently some purely digital companies used scale economies are entirely consis- $14.61/hr @ 15 hours/day and New takes 30 cents. But Uber’s costs are to drive major profi t improvements. In tent with the P&L data presented in York drivers earned $17.51/hr @ 9 much, much higher; even though they these cases (EBay’s exchange market, the fi rst post. hours/day. All pay data adjusted to provide less than half the service of Google’s search function, Facebook’s In most industries, years of evi- 2015 dollars. traditional companies. The P&L data social media product) the develop- dence about massive losses, the lack [3] Census Bureau American Com- clearly shows these charges come ment of a strong user base makes the of margin improvements, and struc- munity Survey data excluding drivers nowhere close to covering Uber’s product signifi cantly more effi cient turally uncompetitive costs would be working 40 hours or less. Transporta- actual corporate expenses. Unlike and more attractive to other users. This suffi cient support for the conclusions tion Research Board, Between Public traditional cab companies, Uber locks-in existing users, fuels growth, that the displacement of incumbent and Private Mobility, Examining the fees need to cover the cost of global and makes it nearly impossible for companies by the new entrant had not Rise of Technology-Enabled Trans- marketing, software development later entrants with smaller user bases increased economic welfare, and that portation Services, 52-3 (2015) programs, branding and lobbying to compete. the capital markets that had funded [4] Uber was claiming that its driv- programs, the huge market develop- By contrast, neither Uber’s or- the new entrant were not allocating ers made more than double the actual ment costs of Uber’s expansion into dering app, nor the ordering apps society’s resources to more produc- earnings of traditional New York taxi hundreds of new cities and must also of other operating companies create tive uses. Silicon Valley funded tech drivers, and more than the average fund a return on the $13 billion its these network economies or locks-in unicorns have regularly claimed that wages of workers in the tech industry., owners have invested. these traditional fi nancial standards McFarland, M., Uber’s Remarkable are inadequate because they have Growth Could End The Era Of Poorly been introducing massive product/ Paid Cab Drivers, Washington Post, technological/process innovations that 27 May 2014. totally “disrupt” traditional industry [5] “In several months of reporting economics, and the public discussion on Uber, I have yet to come across a of Uber has been dominated by claims single driver earning the equivalent of about its innovative breakthroughs. $90,766 a year…. despite broadcasting In reality, if the alleged innovative the $90,766 fi gure far and wide, Uber breakthroughs have not made major has so far proved unable to produce one impacts on service, effi ciency and driver earning that amount.” Griswold, Exhibit 2 summarizes scale econo- users the way EBay and Facebook and profi tability, then they are not really Alison, In Search of Uber’s Unicorn: my issues for each major cost category. Google have. In a competitive market, innovative breakthroughs. In the case The Ride-Sharing Service Says Its There are no scale economies related people will use the app of companies of Uber the question becomes why Median Driver Makes Close To Six to the 85% of costs related to direct like Uber or American Airlines if they haven’t these “disruptive innovations” Figures. But The Math Just Doesn’t operations; each shift involves one can profi tably provide good prices yet produced competitive cost advan- Add Up, Slate, 27 Oct 2014. These vehicle and one car regardless of the and service, but no one will abandon tages or profi ts? fi gures appeared to have resulted from size of the company. This is why there Yellow Cab or JetBlue just because The next installment of this series extrapolating the hourly receipts of has never been any natural tendency a lot of other people have the bigger will examine a range of claimed Uber drivers who only drove a handful of towards signifi cant concentration in company’s app on their phones. “innovations”—sharing economy peak-demand hours a week. individual taxi markets, and why taxi Will the growth of Uber increase effi ciencies, market growth, Uber’s [6] Kedmey, D., Do UberX Drivers companies rarely expanded beyond or decrease overall economic wel- app and surge pricing—and examine Really Take Home $90K A Year On their original markets. fare? whether any of these could constitute Average? Not Exactly, Time, 27 May The revenue productivity of drivers The fi rst post in this series laid the type of large, sustainable competi- 2014. Rail, T., Fact checking Uber’s could increase if more off-peak and out the evidence of Uber’s stagger- tive advantage that could eventually claims about driver income. Shock- backhaul passengers could be found, ing losses. Uber has grown because justify Uber’s growth and industry ingly, they’re not true, Pando Daily, but revenue productivity is not a func- consumers have been choosing the dominance in economic welfare 29 May 2014. Singer, J., Beautiful tion of company size. Uber’s decen- company that only makes them pay terms. Illusions: The Economics of UberX, tralized business model precludes the 41% of the cost of their trip; there is [1] Seattle Consumer Affairs Unit, Valleywag, 11 Jun 2014. effi ciencies integrated operators can no evidence that taxi customers in a Seattle Taxicab Industry Revenue [7] The academic was Alan Krue- achieve such as volume purchasing competitive market would pay more And Operating Statistics (2010); ger of Princeton, a former White House of vehicles and insurance and the use than twice as much for the service and Taxicab Industry Revenue Flow colleague of Uber executive David sophisticated systems to optimize as- quality advantages Uber investors Diagram; San Francisco Municipal Plouffe. Issac, Mike, Hard-Charging set acquisition and utilization against have been subsidizing. Incumbent Transportation Agency, Meter Rates & Uber Tries Olive Branch, New York volatile demand patterns. operators have been losing share and Gate Fees, prepared by Hara Associ- Times, 1 Feb 2015. Uber’s economics are fundamen- fi ling bankruptcy because they cannot ates (Aug 2013); author’s analysis of [8] Huet, Ellen, Uber Tests Taking tally different from other well-known compete with Silicon Valley billion- Denver taxi operators annual fi nancial Even More From Its Drivers With 30% startups that successfully used scale aire owners willing to fi nance years reports to the Colorado Public Utility Commission, Forbes, 18 May 2015. economies to grow into profi tability. of massive subsidies as they pursue Commission. All data was restated in [9] O’Donovan, Caroline & Singer- These were companies in fi elds such industry dominance. 2015 dollars. Seattle data assumed the Vine, Jeremy, Uber Data And Leaked as social media or online retailing This post focused on the cost use of Ford Crown Victoria and higher Docs Provide A Look At How Much Uber whose purely digital products could structure of the urban car service 2010 fuel prices and were adjusted to Drivers Make, Buzzfeed, 22 Jun 2016. be expanded globally (and into new industry in order to demonstrate that refl ect the higher original cost of hy- [10] Academic studies found lim- markets) at extraordinarily low Uber has structurally higher costs than brid vehicles and the lower 2013 fuel ited scale economies (i.e. to cover marginal cost. Unlike an urban car its competitors, and lacks the scale prices refl ected in the San Francisco the fi xed costs of dispatching equip- service provider, direct labor was a economies other startups have used and Denver data. Driver take-home ment) that would limit the ability tiny component of these companies’ to rapidly reduce unit costs. In the ab- pay must cover workman’s compen- of very small fi rms to compete with overall cost structure, and most had sence of the massive scale economies sation and any health insurance costs mid-sized fi rms in the same city, but no competition (entirely new products that digital companies enjoy, there is drivers incur. none large enough to drive high levels like EBay or Facebook) or were facing a fundamental contradiction between [2] Chicago Business Affairs and of concentration within a given city. competition with enormously higher incurring the cost of providing higher Consumer Protection, Taxi Fare Rate Pagano, A. M., & McKnight, C. E., direct operating costs (online retailers levels of capacity and service quality, Study, prepared by Nelson Nygaard Economies of Scale In The Taxicab vs. brick-and-mortar incumbents). and achieving costs low enough to Associates (2014); Boston Taxicab Industry: Some Empirical Evidence Unlike digital companies, Uber drive incumbents out of the market. Consultants Report, prepared by From The United States. Journal of actually faces negative expansion If one examines the components Nelson Nygaard Associates and Taxi Transport Economics and Policy, economies since each new market of urban car service costs, there is no Research Partners (2013); Seattle (1983).299-313; Dempsey, Paul, Taxi raises entirely unique competitive, basis for claiming Uber could ever Consumer Affairs Unit supra note 15; Industry Regulation, Deregulation, recruitment and political lobbying eliminate its structural cost disadvan- New York Taxi and Limousine Com- and Reregulation: The Paradox of challenges. Uber’s unit expansion tage, much less achieve the massive mission, New York City Taxicab Fact Market Failure. Transportation Law costs appear to have increased dra- cost advantage needed if its march to Book, prepared by Schaller Consulting Journal, 24(1),115-16 (1996) JANUARY 2017 • TAXI INSIDER • PAGE 15 F’ed With A Feather By Larry Fisher Quoteable The Chairwoman of things one thing when in the Taxi and Limousine reality, it is the opposite. Commission was a call- Nobody is sharing rides, in guest on the Taxi they are being charged Quotes Dave Show on October for the rides. Drivers are 23, 2016. During that not sharing their cars. “The overhead bin is one of the “Being in Midtown during San- appearance, she reiter- On the contrary, they are last sacred conveniences of air travel taCon makes me want to restore higher ated her positions on the leasing or buying cars and the fact that United Airlines - and penalties for public urination for just state of the taxi industry. with the sole intent of potentially others - plan to take that this one day.” While she appears to be charging for rides. convenience away unless you pay up Councilman Brad Lander a person of empathy with But, as Ms. Joshi is really troubling.” a kind manner, in reality, says, “Competition hap- U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer Does an angry white guy from she has enabled the destruction of pens.” So when Uber drops their fare Queens got a shot in this?” this industry. In response to a driver’s to a level that is equivalent to 41% “I won’t vote for him.” First question at Tony Avella’s call regarding his reduction in fares of the actual cost of the ride, she and Eric Garner’s mother, Gwen Carr, mayoral campaign kick-off press con- and income since the onset of app like-minded people may call it com- on Bill de Blasio ference. technology, Ms. Joshi said two things petition. I call it predatory pricing. that are quite revealing. “We regulate, The sole ambition of this activity is unsuspecting buyers and lenders. And accessibility for taxis, would ulti- set the ground rules.” She later added, to destroy the yellow taxi industry, quite frankly, it might not have been mately make a deal in the fi nal days “Competition happens.“ to drive them out of business. And Ms. Joshi who was at the center of this of its term with the ADA for half the So, let’s dissect further. Yes, the who determines the fare for yellow bait and switch, but her predecessor, fl eet to become accessible. Does any TLC does regulate several sectors of taxis? Isn’t it a bit disingenuous for David Yassky. And Mr. Yassky acted reasonable person believe that 25% public transportation. For example, the Chairwoman to flippantly state in concert with Mayor Bloomberg, would have been an acceptable num- for the yellow medallion taxi industry, that competition happens? Sorry, whose antipathy towards the yellow ber? Now that the fl eet is gradually it is the TLC who determines the fare, ma’am. It doesn’t just happen in one taxi industry grew with every lawsuit. becoming more accessible with the the vehicle type and age, the lease cap, of the most regulated industries in the But, Ms. Joshi was counsel to the goal of 50% within a few years, the the type of technology in the car, etc. country. “Passengers choose”, she TLC during the period of time that MTA is looking to “reward” the yellow It is the TLC who promised exclu- also said. Yes, Uber customers are the plots were hatched to destroy taxi industry by offering Access-a- sivity to purchasers of medallions in allowed to choose a Suburban or a the industry. It’s time we get to the ride fares to Uber. So, we compete, exchange for hundreds of millions of Yukon while the yellow taxi industry bottom of what really occurred at the they’re enabled by the politicians, and dollars. It is the same TLC who has is limited to certain vehicles by its TLC, time to investigate those who ultimately the public will get the shaft. determined that the app companies regulator. were responsible, time to see the e- Ms. Joshi’s admonitions about com- operate by pre-arrangement as op- In an earlier call to the show, mail exchanges between Bloomberg, petition and consumer choice are just posed to the on-demand of yellow Ms. Joshi responded to a concerned Chhabra, Yassky and Joshi. another example of how the politics taxis. Yet, up until June 2016, it medallion owner by stating that the I also fi nd it interesting that the are dishonest, and most likely, rep- wasn’t even possible to order an Uber city would not be buying medallions Bloomberg administration, who ini- resentative of the corruption brought in advance. One could only order back from those who bought them tially fought the ADA on wheelchair here by the likes of Uber. an e-hail for immediate usage. Just at NYC auctions. Clearly, the city because you call it pre-arrangement would not be doing this voluntarily, doesn’t make it so. You can call it but only upon the judgment of a court ride-share, but in reality, it’s a taxi case in which it was determined that NYS DMV Point System service. Uber is quite adept at calling the city pulled a bait and switch on Speeding (mph over posted limit) Insider News to track driving hours, which will 1to10...3points help them comply with the limits (Continued from Page 6) established in this proposed rule. 11 to 20 . . 4 points work in any day or week, TLC ana- Revised Fatigued Driving Rule lyzed available trip data, including As a result of the above analy- 21 to 30 . . 6 points FHV trip data. TLC used pickup sis, this proposed rule adopts the 31 to 40 . . 8 points times as a proxy for hours worked alternative method for calculating because that was the only data that driving hours based on trip dura- More than 40 . . 11 points FHV bases were required to report.1 tion. Licensed drivers would still be This approach provided one uniform subject to daily and weekly driving Reckless Driving ....5points method for calculating driving hour- limits, as under the current driver Failure to stop for a School Bus .5points sacross the taxi and FHV sectors. fatigue rules. Moreover, like the TLC counted a pickup as one hour current rule, the proposed rule also Following too closely (tailgating) 4 points that would be tallied against the limit, addresses acute and chronic fatigue, regardless of the trip duration. provides flexibility for different shift Inadequate Brakes ..4points Many stakeholders, including types, fights fatigue in both the taxi (while driving employer's vehicle)2 points FHV bases, argued that it would be and FHV sectors, and accounts for more accurate to use trip duration to drivers working in both the taxi and Failing to Yield Right-Of-Way...3points calculate driving hours. TLC delayed FHV sectors. implementation of the driver fatigue The existing rule accounts for Violation Involving Traffic Signal, rules to explore this method for cal- total driving time – transporting of Stop Sign, or Yield Sign ...3points culating driving hours as a means of passengers plus time cruising while establishing safe daily and weekly not transporting passengers - in the Railroad Crossing Violation3 points driving limits. In the fall of 2016, calculation of the daily and weekly several FHV bases voluntarily pro- limits. Since the proposed rule does Improper Passing or Lane Use ..3points duced trip records that included both not include cruising time, the daily Leaving scene of an incident involving property pickup and drop-off times, allowing and weekly limits would be reduced “Call Sunny& Save Money” TLC to calculate trip durations. TLC in the new rule from 12 hours to 10 damage or injury to an animal .. 3points then analyzed both FHV and taxi trip hours and from 72 hours to 60 hours, records and determined that a calcula- respectively, to ensure that total driv- Safety restraint violation involving person tion based on trip duration provides a ing time remains within acceptable under 16 .3points more accurate way to identify drivers limits. Even with these reduced daily at risk of fatigue. This method also and weekly limits, however, most Any other moving violation 2 points makes it easier for drivers and bases (Continued on Page 24) Note: Speeding when speed not indicated is 3 points PAGE 16 • TAXI INSIDER • JANUARY 2017 Your Medallion Headquarters ! LOMTO Generation Brokerage, Inc. TAXI and BLACK CAR INSURANCE SPECIALISTS ——And Medallion Transfer, Inc. 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It’s almost impossible to get Forman told Gothamist that these Now That’s A Christmas Miracle! through two green lights in a row in feats have gotten more diffi cult over Taxi driver hits 240 consecutive green lights New York City, but one man managed the last two years because of Uber in New York City - and it only took him to hit 240. drivers and more nighttime traffi c Taxi driver, Noah Forman, was driv- from trucks. 26 minutes ing through Manhattan on December ‘I was hoping to push my goal 6 when he attempted to break a record up to a large number like 500 green for the most consecutive green lights lights, but I’ll settle for this: no stop- in the city. ping, smooth, well mostly smooth He started at 3.27am on 123rd Street sailing, for an estimated 240 lights, and recorded the entire drive in a video one yellow, all the rest green,’ he told posted to Vimeo the news website. He continued toward 110th Street It’s unclear who holds the record for near Central Park North. He drove the most consecutive green lights, but along 5th Avenue as he eventually Forman believes he does after besting made his way to 6th Avenue. his fi rst record in 2014. The drive took about 26 minutes to Forman hit 100 consecutive green complete and he wrapped up his drive lights in a similar night drive two around 3.53am. years ago. During the drive, Forman traveled During that drive, Forman was trav- at a speed as slow as 18mph. eling along 5th and 6th Avenues. Taxi Crocs Photo By David Pollack

It’s almost impossible to get through two green lights in a row in New York City, but Noah Forman managed to hit 240. He started at 3.27am and recorded the entire 26-minute drive. Noah Forman (pictured) was driving through Manhattan on December 6 when he attempted to break a record for the most consecutive green lights in the city. JANUARY 2017 • TAXI INSIDER • PAGE 17 Uber Update Now Tracks Your MTA Quietly Tests Taxis and Location - Even After You Leave The Taxi Uber To Provide Car Services UPDATE to popular taxi app allows service. For Disabled Uber to keep tabs on your whereabouts The news comes weeks after Uber Could mean new competition for contractors for longer, even if you’re not on a revealed a major redesign of its ser- journey. vice. Taxi companies and the e-hailing a company that blatantly discriminates Uber has come under fi re after a The app now learns from a user’s giant Uber are vying to convince the against the disability community to trans- new update revealed it is able to track routines, offering shortcuts to popular Metropolitan Transportation Authority port members of that community,” wrote the location of passengers. destinations that allow you to order a they can transport disabled, impaired Assembly member Jo Anne Simon, in The taxi app is reportedly able to taxi with just one tap. and elderly New Yorkers better and anticipation of a press conference that collect passenger data …. after they Your favorite people will also now cheaper than the current providers of taxi groups and disability advocates will fi nish their journey - even if they’ve be able to be selected as a destination, Access-a-Ride. At stake is a share of be holding at City Hall on Tuesday. left the vehicle. as Uber will allow you to link a contact the more than $450 million the state Uber noted that some existing pro- Previously, Uber was only able to to the app - once they tell you their pays for the program serving disabled viders do not offer wheelchair service keep tabs on its users if they kept the location, your taxi will be able to head New Yorkers. either—and pointed to its pilot program app open. straight there without needing lots of Several months ago, the state agency as evidence that it does not discriminate. The feature was revealed in the lat- back and forth. quietly began a “proof of concept” study About 60 of Uber’s more than 40,000 est update to Uber’s mobile app, which Uber is also working on syncing in which Access-a-Ride users request cars in New York are wheelchair- ac- was released earlier this week. your calendar with the app, which will a ride and the MTA dispatches one cessible, according to the Taxi and Users looking to maintain their detect where your meetings are and through an e-hail app such as Uber, Arro Limousine Commission. privacy still have the option to do display them as shortcuts too. or Curb, the latter two used by cabs. “We are committed to providing so, as the app includes the option to Reprinted with permission from Uber, which only recently launched a affordable, reliable transportation never share their information with the Express. wheelchair-accessible pilot program, to everyone, everywhere,” an Uber is said to be interested in the 80% of spokeswoman said. Uber Is Losing $2 Billion A Year, the paratransit business that does not If the project goes ahead, it’s not involve wheelchairs. clear how the two dozen or so existing New Report Says, With Passengers The prospect of Uber claiming any paratransit providers will be affected, Paying For Only 41% Of Each Ride share of those payments has irked taxi since they’re operating under long-term owners—who are making half the contracts. The MTA said it is very early A new analysis of Uber’s fi nancial fi rst half of 2015; and summary EBIT- city’s fl eet wheelchair accessible—and in the process. “Customer satisfaction data suggests the ride-hailing company DAR contribution data for the fi rst half dismayed disability advocates, who and system reliability remain our top is losing as much as $2 billion a year, of 2016. say the company discriminates against priority for Access-a-Ride,” a spokes- with passengers on average only paying Uber declined to comment on wheelchair users. Some of their allies woman said. “We are taking customer 41 percent of the actual cost of a trip. revenue. last week peppered the MTA with letters feedback into account as we determine Parsing a set of three private fi nan- The analysis, released this week, protesting Uber’s involvement. the future of this pilot.” cial statements that were published on already has columnists at the Financial “The MTA has both [a] legal and Reprinted with permission from three separate occasions, Yves Smith of Times wondering how Uber, which is moral obligation not to contract with Crains. Naked Capitalism writes that its clear currently valued at around $69 billion that for the year ending in September (making it the world’s most highly THE TRAFFIC TICKET ATTORNEY 2015, Uber posted $2 billion in losses valued private company in the world), on revenue of $1.4 billion. can hope to maintain a sustainable THAT ATTORNEYS HIRE “As shown in Exhibit 2, for the business model. year ending September 2015, Uber had “Silicon Valley elites justify the TO FIGHT THEIR TICKETS GAAP losses of $2 billion on revenue subsidies in the name of monopolistic NO BETTER REFERENCE... of $1.4 billion, a negative 143 percent growth expectations and the building profi t margin. Thus Uber’s current oper- of ‘eco-systems.’ They believe if mo- ations depend on $2 billion in subsidies, nopoly status is achieved, profi tability Resolving all of your TRAFFIC TICKET funded out of the $13 billion in cash its will follow naturally from that point,” investors have provided,” Smith writes. Izabella Kaminska, a columnist for the and Criminally related offenses in EVERY The data is in the chart below. FT writes. COUNTY in NY STATE. Perhaps more alarmingly, Smith “Yet, as FT Alphaville has long writes, is that Uber’s passenger-based maintained, there is no reason to assume We do so in lieu of your appearance, for model, which is theoretically built to Uber’s obliteration of local competition avoid overhead and reward drivers across the planet will create a sustain- a fl at fee, and with reputable success for directly, actually pays for very little of able business in the long term. Costs the cost of each ride. are costs, even if you’re a monopoly,” the past 22+ years. “Uber passengers were paying only she writes. So before you answer your summons, 41 percent of the actual cost of their “As long as people have cheaper trips; Uber was using these massive alternatives (public transport, legs), call us for your free consultation! subsidies to undercut the fares and pro- they will defect if the break-even price vide more capacity than the competitors is higher than their inconvenience toler- We will customize a defense specifi c to who had to cover 100 percent of their ance threshold. The fact Silicon Valley costs out of passenger fares.” thinks otherwise is sadly symptomatic your circumstances, and strategically han- Smith arrived at the conclusion by of the emperor’s new clothes groupthink dle all related procedural requirements… looking at data for 2012, 2013 and dominating the sector.” the fi rst half of 2014; tables of GAAP Reprinted with permission from while you go about your life, we start by profi t data for full year 2014 and the BizJournals. answering your summons – and commence WANT TO MAKE MORE with notifying you of “(the good)” news $ EVERY DAY? and the closing of your fi le! JUST DRIVE AN Stacy Posner – Traffi c Ticket Attorney 212-334-3737 / 212-343-0303 ACCESSIBLE MEDALLION! [email protected] PAGE 18 • TAXI INSIDER • JANUARY 2017 A0255 A0308 Current Medallion Agents Kim Cab Leasing Corp. Taxifl eet Management LLC. A0003 A0204 3864a Flatlands Avenue 34-14 31 Street Cab Management Corp B. Taxi Management Inc. 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Let’s keep this attentiveness going forward in the New Year! Update on Driver Fatigue Rules The AAA Foundation for Traf- Happy New Year from the TLC! fic Safety recently released a study Taxi Improvement Fund Driver that made it clear that drivers who and Owner Programs have too little sleep are comparable There are more than 1200 wheelchair-accessible taxicabs on the road in New York If you haven’t taken part in our to those who have had three or four City now. Taxi Improvement Fund, 2017 is a alcoholic drinks. The vast majority as they approved the soundest rules Before I sign off, as I listen to a good time to start. The fund’s pro- of our licensees are safe professionals for the drivers, passengers, and the forecast of the season’s first snow grams for drivers and vehicle own- who don’t drive an excessive number industries we regulate. while writing this column, I’d like ers offer lucrative opportunities to of hours, which can lead to dangerous Commissioner Gonzalez spear- to just take a moment to remind ev- earn more money while making our errors on the road. When the TLC’s headed the FHV rules overhaul, has eryone that, if you haven’t already, city more accessible to people with fatigue-related rules were adopted championed drivers’ rights (includ- it’s time to winterize! With winter disabilities. The average payment over the summer, many stakehold- ing the first-ever fare increase that nipping so closely at our heels, the per driver is more than $750 for this ers made the case that it would be went entirely to drivers), and has extra-smart thing to do is to have year, and almost 1,450 drivers have more accurate to use trip duration to consistently supported accountabil- your tires checked, your oil changed enrolled in the program. More than calculate driving hours. ity, greater taxi service outside of with the right viscosity for New York 500 vehicle owners have also received Based on additional analysis, Manhattan’s Central business district, winter temperatures, and to check an average payment of more than the TLC is proposing revised rules and accessibility in the industries we your coolant ratio (60/40 is good $16,000 toward the cost of a wheel- to combat fatigued driving. The regulate. Commissioner Carone has for when the mercury starts to fall). chair-accessible vehicle, and nearly proposed rules will use passenger been a strong advocate for service Make sure you have a well-stocked 900 owners have enrolled. These time – the time when a passenger is for all, including street hail livery emergency kit, and don’t forget to programs both improve service and in a vehicle on a trip – to calculate service and expanding the number check your battery, since it can’t provide new financial opportunities the daily and weekly service limits. of wheelchair-accessible vehicles. perform as well in the cold. Last for drivers and owners. Because the proposed calculation These departures are a loss for the but not least, it’s absolutely impera- Making Our City More Equi- method is more exact and counts less city, but we are fortunate for the years tive to have a good fresh great set of table time than the prior proposal, these you were our colleagues. Thank you windshield wipers installed and top And on that note of equity… Last limits have been revised to 10 hours for all your contributions to improv- off your reservoir with plenty of de- month, the TLC’s commissioners of passenger time per day and 60 ing for-hire transportation in New icing washer fluid! approved the expansion of our Ac- hours per week. This change provides York City! Until next time……drive like your cessible Dispatch Program to make it drivers with a lot more flexibility to Winterizing Reminder family lives here! citywide. Currently, trips must begin schedule their day as they see fit. The Photo By David Pollack in Manhattan. A top priority at the ten hour daily limit strikes the right TLC has been growing the number balance. Cruising time, app-on time, of wheelchair-accessible vehicles and time waiting at the airport or at a on the road that offer for-hire trips. taxi stand will not be counted towards There are more than 1200 medallion the total. Only the time when you taxicabs on the road that are now have a passenger in the car. accessible, up from less than 240 in The TLC will hold a hearing on 2013, and that number continues to January 5 about the revised rules, climb. Wait times have also fallen to which are more precise and a stronger under 12 minutes in our Accessible tool in achieving Vision Zero. We Dispatch program, while demand for will not begin enforcing a revised rule rides continues to grow. We greatly until we have completed significant appreciate the contributions that ac- outreach and provided warnings to cessible vehicle owners and drivers that small percentage of drivers who make in bringing greater equity to our drive over the limits so they have an city. Thank you for making our place opportunity to proactively adjust their in the city’s transportation network schedule. As always, we appreciate more inclusive to the riding public. your support in preventing crashes, Traffic Safety at Sunset & which devastate whole families and Shorter Days communities. I would like to thank drivers for Farewell to Two Great Public being particularly vigilant following Servants Daylight Saving Time in November-- Last month, we were sad to say making dusk a safer time for everyone goodbye to two of our treasured who uses our City’s streets. commissioners, Edward Gonzalez During the fall and winter, sunset and Frank Carone. Although the is earlier in the day when more pe- positions are not paid appointments, destrians are out, including children, the work required for this critical and the lack of light makes it harder role is significant. Both Ed and to see. Fall and winter have histori- Frank, who joined in 2005 and 2011 cally been the deadliest seasons on respectively, were diligent in making our streets, and the city continues to sure the best decisions were made PAGE 22 • TAXI INSIDER • JANUARY 2017 JANUARY 2017 • TAXI INSIDER • PAGE 23 things this past year were the criminal in Afghanistan or Pakistan. Oh What A Year It Was! charges lodged against some highly There is no way that I would avoid By Jerry Kremer visible Nassau County elected lead- talking about this year’s serious is- We are close to the end of what more funding for a cause once the ers. All of them are assumed to be sue of hacking into our computer has been a historic year. So many state budget was completed. innocent unless proven guilty. Watch- systems. The proven intrusion by things happened affect- Weisenberg got every ing the current political scene, it Russian operatives is a warning that ing so many people that it member of the Assembly seems like there are ethical bonfires there is no system in this country is hard to give sufficient and Senate to support his across the state. Once upon a time, that is safe from cyber-attacks. It’s words to describe what bill to allocate $90 million elected leaders could step over the the Democrats one day, and then it’s each event or happening for programs for people in line and it went unnoticed. Today’s Google and the Defense Department. means. But a year-end need. The bill passed both world is different, and but for a very Tomorrow it could be your electric look back is worth the time houses, and Weisenberg small handful, too many politicians power system, your doctor’s office and effort, so I will take a was under intense pressure just don’t get it. I hope that the next and multiple other places. So don’t shot at it. to wait another year before group of leaders will respect the take this occurrence as just an annoy- It has been more than the funding would be in- public’s desire to get the job done ance. Just because they didn’t hack six weeks since the na- cluded in the state budget. without scandal. your information this week doesn’t tional election, and some- He rejected the pressure Two elected leaders are clearly mean that you aren’t next in line. how most of the people I and insisted that the money back in the limelight. Former County To all my readers, have a Merry meet still seem to be in had to be approved without Executive Tom Suozzi has regained Christmas and a happy and healthy a state of shock. Most of delay. his political footing and is now on New Year. the unhappy voters are from New Even though he has left office, his way to Congress, replacing Steve Jerry Kremer was a state assem- York who supported Hillary Clinton. Weisenberg continues to be a re- Israel, who did a terrific job. My fel- blyman for 23 years, and chaired the Quite a few of them assumed that lentless fighter for more funds for low columnist Al D’Amato looks like Assembly’s Ways and Means Com- the election was a done deal and that programs for the disabled. His latest a possible candidate to be an ambas- mittee for 12 years. He now heads Clinton would be on her way to the campaign is to get the direct caregiv- sador in the Trump administration. Empire Government Strategies, a White House. When the most factual ers a pay increase. It’s hard to imagine My only advice to the former senator business development and legislative book is written about this election, that the people hired to take care of is that he shouldn’t agree to an offer strategy firm. the writers will no doubt find that people with disabilities are making the Clinton campaign made many less than fast-food workers. In addi- tactical mistakes that caused her to tion, Weisenberg is asking why these LISTEN TO PODCASTS OF blow it. workers have such a high turnover rate On the subject of heroes, there and wants the state to look into the The Taxi Dave Show is no bigger one that I can think of problem. He is traveling throughout than former Assemblyman Harvey the state to hold news conferences and Weisenberg. While he was in Albany, use the media to keep up his battle for and he became Governor Cuomo’s nem- worker equality. If you are looking esis on the issue of funding for the for a worthy charity, make a donation Read Taxi Insider on-line @ disabled. At no time in the history of to the Harvey & Ellen Weisenberg the state was any Assembly member Special Needs Program. NYCTAXINEWS.COM able to force the governor to find Among of the most disturbing

Photo by David Pollack PAGE 24 • TAXI INSIDER • JANUARY 2017 Insider News for incidents alleged to have occurred during or between trips, by allowing (Continued from Page 15) TAXI AND FOR-HIRE VEHICLE TLC to determine the location of a RELIEF STANDS drivers would not need to modify their vehicle at a particular time. The data DOT is not responsible regulating taxis. Taxis are regulated by the New York driving hours in order to comply. is particularly important for investiga- City Taxi and Limousine Commission. DOT does regulate taxi relief stands The proposed rule would reduce the tions in the FHV sector, where, unlike Taxi relief stands allow drivers to park their vehicles for up to one hour. This safety risks of fatigued driving by: yellow and green taxis, the vast and affords drivers the opportunity to leave their vehicles and take care of personal • Prohibiting a driver of a taxi or growing vehicle fl eet does not have needs. Taxi relief stands should not be confused with taxi stands, which are for-hire vehicle from transporting pas- readily identifi able markers, such as locations where drivers can wait, in their cars, to pick up passengers. sengers for hire for more than 10 hours a medallion or permit number on the The type column indicates if the relief stand is for taxis alone, or both taxis in any 24-hour period; roof light. and For-Hire Vehicles (FHVs). Staten Island currently has no relief stands. • Prohibiting a driver of a taxi or The data will also support street for-hire vehicle from transporting pas- enforcement in major service areas. BRONX sengers for hire for more than 60 hours For example, the potential for illegal TYPE LOCATION CROSS STREET in a calendar week (that is, Sunday solicitations by FHV drivers is high Taxi Jerome Ave. (E. Side) Eliot Pl. & E. 170th St. through Saturday); at peak drop-off times at the airports Taxi Metropolitan Ave. (N. Side) Purdy St. & Red Oak Dr. • Resetting the 10-hour clock for a when drivers have completed trips and driver after any period in which he or observe a large number of potential MANHATTAN EAST SIDE ABOVE 23RD STREET she has gone at least eight consecutive passengers. By understanding when Taxis E.77th St.(N. Side) First & Second Aves. hours without transporting passengers for-hire trips to and from the airports Taxis E. 86th St. (N. Side) Henderson Pl. & York Ave. (e.g., a driver who fi nishes a trip at 9:30 occur TLC can better target resources Taxis E. 78th Street (N. Side) Lexington & Third Ave. p.m. on Monday after transporting pas- to ensure that passengers are picked up Taxis E. 78th St. (S. Side) Lexington & Third Ave. sengers for 10 hours must take at least an at the airport only by drivers authorized Taxis & FHVs E. 29th St. (S. Side) Madison & Fifth Ave. eight hour break before picking up the to do so. Taxis E. 27th St. (N. Side) Park Ave. S. & Madison Ave. next passenger no sooner than Tuesday Finally, as the number of FHV ve- Taxis & FHVs E.28th St. (N. Side) Park Av. S. & Lexington Ave. at 5:30 a.m.); and hicles and trips continues to grow, so Taxis & FHVs Madison Ave. (W. Side) E. 26th & 27th St. • Prohibiting a base from dispatching Taxis E. 26th Street (S. Side) Third & Second Aves. does the need for greater transparency a driver to transport passengers for more and accountability. Since November than 10 hours in any 24-hour period (un- 2014, when TLC fi rst imposed trip re- MANHATTAN WEST SIDE ABOVE 23RD STREET less that base has stopped dispatching porting requirements on the FHV sector, Taxis W. 55th St. (S. Side) Tenth & Eleventh Aves. the driver to transport passengers for Taxis & FHVs Sixth Ave. (W.Side) W. 55th & 56th Sts. the number of FHVs has grown by over eight or more consecutive hours) and 50 percent to nearly 78,000 vehicles, Taxis & FHVs Eighth Ave. (E. Side) W. 52nd & 53rd Sts. prohibiting a base from dispatching a Taxis Broadway (E. Side) W. 48th & 47th Sts. or four times the combined number of driver to transport passengers for more Taxis Eighth Ave. (W. Side) W. 46th & 47th Sts. yellow and green taxis. Because of the than 60 hours in a calendar week. Taxis & FHVs Sixth Ave. (W. Side) W. 39th & 40th Sts. 2014 trip reporting requirements, the Taxis & FHVs Sixth Ave. (W. Side) W. 38th & 39th Sts. To enforce the proposed rule, each mechanism is in place for bases to sub- Taxis Broadway (E. Side) W. 43rd & 42nd Sts. month TLC will review trip records mit to TLC the additional trip data that Taxis Ninth Ave. (E. Side) W. 42nd & 41st Sts. submitted by yellow and green taxis, they collect. Collection of this data is Taxis West 39th St. (S. Side) Eighth & Ninth Aves. as well as FHV bases, to calculate likely already taking place, particularly Taxis Ninth Ave. (E. Side) W. 30th & 29th Sts. the number of hours in which a driver for FHV trips that are dispatched via transported passengers in a day or week. technologically-sophisticated means MANHATTAN BELOW 23RD STREET Trips by a driver who accepts dispatches or when bases provide a binding fare Taxis E. 23rd St. First & Second Aves. from multiple bases, or who operates quote. Taxis & FHVs Sixth Ave. (W. Side) W. 22nd & 23rd Sts. both taxis and for-hire vehicles, will be For all of the above reasons, the Taxis Third Ave. (W. Side) E. 14th & 15th Sts. combined to determine the total number proposed rule would amend the current Taxis & FHVs Third Ave. (W. Side) E. 15th & 14th Sts. of driving hours. Bases will only be trip record rules to require that FHV Taxis & FHVs Sixth Ave. (W. Side) W.13th & 14th Sts. responsible for trips that they dispatch, bases collect and transmit to TLC: Taxis Sixth Ave. (W. Side) Thompson & Grand Sts. not dispatches that their affi liated driv- • The drop-off time and location for Taxis & FHVs Canal St. (N. Side) E. Broadway & Essex St. ers accept through other bases or street each trip that they dispatch, and Taxis Park Row (SE. Side) Ann & Beekman Sts. hails accepted by green taxis.2 • An indication that the dispatched Taxis & FHVs Fulton St. (S. Side) Broadway & Church St. Additional FHV Trip Data Report- trip was shared with another dispatched Taxis & FHVs South St. (N. Side) Old Slip & Broad St. ing Requirements trip. Taxis & FHVs Water St. (W. Side) Whitehall & Broad Sts. As noted above, implementation of TLC will maintain the privacy and Taxis Whitehall St. (W. Side) South & State Sts, the proposed driver fatigue rule is based confi dentiality of the additional data on calculation of trip times, which will that it will be collecting because of these BROOKLYN require FHV bases to regularly transmit new reporting requirements, as it does Taxis N. Sixth St. (N. Side) Berry St. & Wythe Ave. to TLC drop-off time and location, in with all data currently collected. Taxis Fourth Ave. (W. Side) Third & Sixth Sts. addition to the pickup time and location Implementation currently required by TLC rule. In ad- To implement the driver fatigue QUEENS dition to requiring FHV bases to report rule, TLC will fi rst work with FHV Taxis & FHVs 43rd Ave. (N. side) 11th & 12th Sts. trip times, TLC will also require them bases to help them meet the new trip Taxis 44th Rd. (N. Side) 21st & 11th Sts. to indicate when trips are shared. With data reporting requirements. After Taxis & FHVs Hunterspoint Ave. 27th & 30th Sts. drop-off location information, TLC these reporting requirements are met, Taxis 31st St. (W. Side) 34th & 35th Aves. can confi rm the accuracy of the FHV and before any summonses are issued, Taxis & FHVs 43rd Ave. 36th & 37th Sts. records by considering such factors as TLC will issue warnings for several Taxis 34th St. (W. Side) 37th & 38th Aves. distances traveled during and between months to drivers or bases that exceed Taxis Skillman Ave. 37th & 36th Sts. trips, routes, and traffi c conditions. the daily or weekly driving limits. Dur- Taxis Queens Blvd. (S. Side) 50th & 51st Sts. Accurate drop-off information will ing this implementation period, TLC Taxis Queens Blvd. 55th & 54th Sts. also ensure that these rules are applied Taxis & FHVs 45th Ave. (S. side) Jackson Ave. & 23rd St. will continue to provide its expanded consistently whether the driver works driver education and training materials, Taxis & FHVs Pearson St. (W. Side) Jackson Ave. & dead end in the taxi or FHV sector, given the Taxis 49th St. Newtown Rd & Northern Blvd. which were introduced after the adoption fl exibility now available to drivers un- Taxis 55th St. Queens Blvd & Roosevelt Ave. of the driver fatigue rule in July 2016 and der the newly-instituted TLC Driver’s Taxis Van Dam St. Queens Blvd & Skillman Ave. include strategies to combat fatigue and Taxis & FHVs 36th St. Skillman & 43rd Aves. License. information on the benefi ts of breaks and Drop-off data for FHV trips will the importance of getting adequate rest. By Don’t risk a summons trying to fi nd a Relief Stand on the list also assist TLC in other enforcement drawing on all of these tools, TLC seeks that the TLC web site provides. Texting or searching on-line actions. For example, it will facilitate to ensure that drivers have enough time while in your cab is against the law. Keep this list in your taxi investigating passenger complaints or to rest prior to transporting passengers for for future use! complaints from a pedestrian or other hire and thus help move the city a step motorist about unsafe driving, including (Continued on Page 28) JANUARY 2017 • TAXI INSIDER • PAGE 25 YOUR ACCESSIBLE VEHICLE HEADQUARTERS

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Hampton Inn Mayfair Hotel Times Square Hotel 242 W 49th Street 851 8th Avenue at 51st Street between 7th & 8th Avenues

Hampton Inn SoHo Metro Hotel 54 Watts St 45 W 35th Street (near Varick St) between 5th & 6th Avenues

Helmsley Carlton House Hotel Doubletree Metropolitan Hotel 680 Madison Ave 569 Lexington Avenue at 51st Street between 61st & 62nd Sts. Michelangelo Hotel 152 W 51st Street Helmsley Middletowne Hotel between 6th & 7th Avenues 148 E 48th Street between Lexington & Park Aves. Milford Plaza Hotel 270 W 45th Street at 8th Avenue Helmsley Park Lane Hotel 36 Central Park South Millenium Hilton Hotel between 5th & 6th Avenues 55 Church Street between Fulton & Day Streets Hilton Garden Inn Time Square 790 8th Avenue Millennium Broadway Hotel between 48th & 49th Streets 145 W 44th Street between 6th & 7th Aves Hilton New York Hotel 1335 6th Avenue Millennium UN Plaza Hotel between 53rd & 54th Streets 1 United Nations Plaza at 1st Avenue & 44th Street Hilton Times Square Hotel 234 W 42nd Street Murray Hill East Suites Hotel between 7th & 8th Avenues 149 E 39th Street between 3rd & Lexington Avenues Holiday Inn Downtown Hotel Murray Hill Inn Hotel 138 Lafayette Street 143 E 30th Street between Howard & Canal Streets between Lexington & Park Avenues

Holiday Inn Martinique Hotel Broadway & W 32nd Street (Continued on Page 28) JANUARY 2017 • TAXI INSIDER • PAGE 27 Average Gas Prices NYC ECONOMY As of January 5, 2016 New York Regular Mid Premium Diesel Transit Ridership Current $2.539 $2.764 $2.975 $2.750 Total ridership on MTA New York City subways and buses was 205.1 Week Ago $2.491 $2.754 $2.966 $2.745 million in October 2016, a 6.3% decrease from October 2015. This is the Month Ago $2.386 $2.626 $2.842 $2.624 largest year-over-year drop in 2016. The drop was led by declining bus ridership, which fell 7.4% from last year. Year Ago $2.222 $2.496 $2.701 $2.594 All MTA divisions—including commuter rails and bridges and tunnels— the most common of these positions being protective service workers mak- experienced declines from October 2015. Total ridership for MTA divisions ing up roughly 2,000 of these jobs. Museum employment is also highly was down 6.0% from last year at 231.4 million seasonal with employment peaking in the summer months. Several factors Source: Metropolitan Transportation Authority Travel and Tourism. could explain this trend; for example, leisure tourism tends to spike during the summer months, and students are not attending school and may have Air Traffi c more time to visit local museums and historical sites. Furthermore, many of In October 2016, 10.9 million passengers flew into and out of the New the historic sites that are outdoors experience the most visitation in warmer York City region’s airports, an increase of 1.6% from October 2015. months. In a reverse of the year’s trends, passenger growth was driven by inter- Cultural institutions—spanning from art museums to religious orga- national flights, which carried 3.8 million passengers (up 3.4% from the nizations—are an integral part of New York City life, and are enjoyed by previous year). both residents and visitors alike. According to NYC & Company, more Freight transport increased at regional airports, rising 2.3% from Oc- than one-fifth of domestic tourists and more than half of overseas visitors tober 2016. This increase was led by international freight (up 5.2%) while attended a museum or gallery while in the region in 2015. International domestic freight contracted 3.1% from October 2015. visitors typically stay longer (9.0 days for overseas visitors, compared to Source: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. 2.1 for domestic) and have more time to visit cultural institutions. Many international tourists visit museums and galleries, but Australians attend them at the highest rates (about 68%). Australians also visit historical loca- Broadway Ticket Sales tions, cultural heritage sites, plays, and musicals at the highest frequency Broadway ticket revenues totaled $116.3 million in November 2016, a of any of the surveyed countries. While the Swiss have the lowest rate of 0.3% increase from the same period in 2015. museum and art gallery attendance (36%), they attend the third most plays Attendance in November totaled 1,046,355, a drop of 5.1% from the and musicals, only behind Australia and Brazil. prior year. Ticket prices—which rose from $105 per ticket on average to New York City’s leading cultural institutions include some of the world’s $111—stabilized total Broadway revenues. most renowned museums and performing art companies. The Metropolitan Source: The Broadway League Note: Gross revenue and attendance Museum of Art (The Met), for example, regularly generates the highest figures may not include all shows. revenue of the any of the city’s cultural institutions. In 2013 (the latest year for which IRS data is available) The Met’s incomes totaled $631.6 million, Hotel Occupancy (Continued on Page 28) In August 2016, the average daily hotel room rate was $249, a 4.4% decrease from August 2015; this is the fifth consecutive month of year- over-year price decreases. Hotel occupancy was 88.9% in August 2016, down from 90.7% in Au- gust 2015. Employment Dragonfl y New York City private sector jobs fell by 800 in November 2016, fol- lowing October losses of 12,550.1 From October to November, the unemployment rate fell to 5.7% from 5.9%. Graphics llc. Public sector jobs grew by 300, resulting in overall losses of 500 payroll jobs between October and November 2016. •Design and Print Health Care and Social Assistance led the job growth in November, add- ing 5,500 jobs last month and 18,900 since November 2015. media experts. The highest losses occurred in the in the Trade sectors, which saw losses in both Wholesale Trade and Retail from the previous month. While Retail •Over 25 years Trade is down for the year, Wholesale trade had been performing well until experience in last month, with total employment up 4% from November 2015. Finance and Insurance also experienced job losses—mostly led by the Graphics. Banking sector—which is down 2.8% over the year. Securities recovered 100 jobs in November but are still down 1.2% from the same month in 2015. •Certifi ed Union Construction For The Twelve Printers. Months Ending September 2016: 4 Court Square The number of construction projects rose by 11.9%. This growth was Long Island City, NY 11101 led by non-residential projects, which increased 14.5% from the twelve (718) 392-3460 months ending September 2015. Both the value and square footage of construction projects were down Fax (718) 786-5931 from last year’s totals. Total new building square footage was down 29.6% www.dragonfl ygraphics.info while the corresponding value of new building projects was down 23.3%. e-mail: dragonfl [email protected] These drops were led by falling residential project sizes. September 2016 saw the starts for 1,822 dwelling units across the City and 29,751 units over the last twelve months. This is down 37.4% from the prior twelve months. The Economy Of Culture & Giving Museums and Historical Sites employed nearly 14,000 people in 2015; PAGE 28 • TAXI INSIDER • JANUARY 2017 Insider News Appearance NOT REQUIRED occur do not need to be consecutive in Economy (iii) Weekly Limit. A Base or Associ- order to count toward the daily or weekly (Continued from Page 24) (Continued from Page 27) ated Base must not dispatch a Driver to limit. closer to achieving Vision Zero. [pick up] transport any [p]Passenger(s) for (iii)] The pickups that a Driver makes which includes tickets, contributions, New material is underlined. hire in more than [72] 60 hours in total in while operating any Vehicle pursuant to asset sales, and other sources. The [Material inside brackets indicates [any seven-day period] a calendar week. this Chapter will be combined for the Met continues to experience steady deleted material.] §59B-18(e)(iii) purpose of counting hours toward the growth, with revenues and assets up Section 1. Subdivision (e) of section $200 for each dispatch over the daily or weekly limit. 34.4% and 8.4%, respectively, from 59B-18 of Title 35 of the Rules of the limit [(iv)](iii) [Any violation of the daily 20111 . City of New York is amended to read as Appearance NOT REQUIRED limit cannot] If any time exceeds the daily Half of the city’s top ten revenue- follows: Section 2. Paragraph (1) of subdivision limit and serves as the basis for a violation earning cultural institutions are (e) Limits on Hours of Driving. (a) of Section 59B-19 of Title 35 of the of the daily limit, such time cannot also museums, and four are performing (i) Generally. A Base or Associated Rules of the City of New York is amended [serve as a basis for] be counted toward arts organizations. The city’s most Base must not dispatch a Driver to [pick to read as follows: a violation of the weekly limit. prominent museums have seen posi- up] transport any [p]Passenger(s) for hire (1) With respect to all dispatched (iv) It is a defense to the rule that the tive revenue growth in recent years; in excess of the daily and weekly limits calls: limits were exceeded because of a single however, the city’s major performing detailed in this subdivision. (i) The date, the time, and the location trip that began before the limits were arts centers have experienced falling A [Any hour of the day or week of the Passenger [to be picked up] pickup reached. revenues over a similar period. that contains at least one pick-up of any and drop-off (2) Daily Limit. A Driver must not There were 2,758 religious or- passenger(s) for hire will be counted as one (ii) The Driver’s TLC Driver License [pick up] transport any Passenger(s) for ganizations (churches, mosques, full hour toward the daily or weekly limit, number hire [in] for more than [12] 10 hours in synagogues, etc.) employing 32,700 regardless of the duration of the trip. If a (iii) The dispatched Vehicle’s License total in any 24-hour period. EXCEP- people in New York City in 2014. Driver does not pick up any passenger(s) number TION: If a Driver [picks up] transports Over the past decade, the number of for hire during an hour (for example, be- (iv) The TLC License number of no Passengers for hire for at least eight religious institutions has grown by cause the Driver is taking a break), then the For-Hire Base that dispatched the consecutive hours, the [12-hour] 10-hour half a percentage point every year, such hour will not count toward the daily Vehicle count resets and such Driver may resume equivalent to roughly 166 new reli- or weekly limit] Daily and weekly driving (v) The TLC License number of the picking up Passengers for hire. gious establishments each year. While hours will be calculated by adding up the For-Hire Base affi liated to the dispatched §80-14(f)(2) there were only 1,200 charitable in- time that passengers are being transported Vehicle Hours above the daily limit: stitutions employing 19,500 people in for hire. Time between trips will not be (vi) Whether the Passenger is sharing No more than 1 hour: 2014), the number of giving-oriented counted as driving hours. the Vehicle for part or all of the trip with a [If the limit is exceeded by one hour groups has grown at an annual rate B [The hours in which any pickups Passenger from another dispatched call. three times in any 7-day period: $50 if of 4.0%, about four times faster than occur do not need to be consecutive in Section 3. Subdivision (f) of section plead guilty before a hearing; and $75 the average rate of business growth order to count toward the daily or weekly 80-14 of Title 35 of the Rules of the City if found guilty following a hearing. over that period. limit. If the limit is exceeded by one hour of New York is amended to read as fol- guilty following a hearing. C Any violation of the daily limit can- for the fourth or subsequent time in lows: If guilty of three or more violations not] If any time exceeds the daily limit and any 7-day period: $50 if plead guilty (f) Limits on Hours of Driving. in a calendar month for exceeding the serves as the basis for a violation of the before a hearing; and $75 if found guilty (1) Generally. A Driver must not [pick daily limit by [three] four or more daily limit, such time cannot also [serve as following a hearing] $50 if plead guilty up] transport any Passenger(s) for hire hours, penalty shall also include a sus- a basis for] be counted toward a violation before a hearing; and $75 if found guilty in excess of the daily and weekly limits pension of at least 5 days but no more of the weekly limit. following a hearing. detailed in this subdivision. than 15 days. (ii) Daily Limit. A Base or Associated (i) [Any hour of the day or week Over 1 hour but no more than 2 (3) Weekly Limit. A Driver must not Base must not dispatch a Driver to [pick that contains at least one pick-up of any hours: $[50] 100 if plead guilty before [pick up] transport any Passenger(s) for up] transport any [p]Passenger(s) for hire Passenger(s) for hire will be counted as one a hearing; and $ [75] 150 if found guilty hire [in] for more than [72] 60 hours in in more than [12] 10 hours in total in any full hour toward the daily or weekly limit, following a hearing. total in [any seven-day period] a calendar 24-hour period. EXCEPTION: If a Base regardless of the duration of the trip. If a Over 2 hours but no more than 3[-4] week. or Associated Base does not dispatch a hours: $ [100] 150 if plead guilty before Driver does not pick up any Passenger(s) §80-14(f)(3) Driver to [pick up] transport [p]Passen- a hearing; and $[150] 200 if found guilty for hire during an hour (for example, be- Hours above the weekly limit: gers in at least eight consecutive hours, following a hearing. cause the Driver is taking a break), then No more than 1 hour [, if the limit the [12-hour] 10-hour count resets and [5 hours or more] Over 3 hours but such hour will not count toward the daily is exceeded three or more times in a such Base or Associated Base can resume no more than 4 hours: $200 if plead or weekly limit] Daily and weekly driving calendar month]: $50 if plead guilty dispatching such Driver to pick up [p] guilty before a hearing; and $300 if hours will be calculated by adding up the before a hearing; and $75 if found guilty Passengers for hire. found guilty following a hearing. time that passengers are being transported following a hearing. §59B-18(e)(ii) Appearance NOT REQUIRED for hire. Time between trips will not be Over 1 hour but no more than 2 $200 for each dispatch over the counted as driving hours. Over 4 hours: $300 if plead guilty limit (ii) [The hours in which any pickups before a hearing; and $400 if found (Continued on Page 34)

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By Matthew W. Daus, Esq. On June 9th, 2015, I was invited transportation technology arena. This to speak at a Panel entitled “The article will summarize the findings Interplay between Competition, and issues raised in the FTC report, Consumer Protection, and Regula- and will analyze what we know so tion: Policy Perspectives” by the far about whether changes may be Federal Trade Commission on the horizon in 2017 and (“FTC”) for a workshop beyond. on the so-called “Sharing The FTC report address- Economy”. I spoke out es the “Sharing Economy” The full panel at the Federal Trade Commission Workshop on The Sharing Economy against using the misnomer as a whole, to include any in Washington, DC, left to right: Julie Goshorn, Moderator and Attorney for the “Sharing Economy” for app- online platform that pro- Bureau of Competition’s Offi ce of Policy and Coordination, FTC; Ashwini Chhabra, enabled for-hire vehicles vides a marketplace to bring Head of Policy Development, Uber Technologies; Professor Matthew Daus; Brooks Rainwater, Director, City Solutions and Applied Research Center, National League such as Uber, explaining together buyers and sellers of Cities; David Hantman, Head of Global Public Policy, Airbnb; Vanessa Sinders, that so-called Transporta- of goods and services, but Senior Vice President and Head of Government Affairs, American Hotel and Lodging tion Network Companies focuses mostly on the trans- Association; William “Bill” F. Adkinson, Jr., Moderator and Attorney Advisor for (TNCs) like Uber and Lyft, portation (Uber, Lyft, etc.) the Offi ce of Policy Planning, FTC. never had, until recently and and hospitality (Airbnb) sparingly via the Uberpool and Ly- sectors. The report explains that ftline services, actually shared rides these platforms incorporate built-in at all. Rather, they were and still are trust mechanisms to encourage buy- simply providing the same service ers to use them confidently. These as taxicabs and for-hire vehicles, trust mechanisms usually come delivering passengers from point A to in the form of a rating system for point B (albeit faster and dispatched sellers created through aggregating through a smartphone app), and feedback from the buyers. Although should be regulated the same as the panelists from the workshop agreed incumbent industry in terms of safety that these reputation mechanisms and consumer protection standards. worked well to grow the sharing The video of this lively panel, where economy, some pointed out that they I engaged in a debate with Uber and might be biased towards positive Airbnb, can be viewed in its entirety at feedback or no feedback, instead of this link:https://www.ftc.gov/news- negative feedback. Also, feedback events/audio-video/video/sharing- may be biased towards extreme ex- Professor Matthew Daus (center), debates Ashwini Chhabra, Head of Policy Development of Uber Technologies (left), while Brooks Rainwater, Director, City economy-workshop-part-3. periences because many buyers will Solutions and Applied Research Center, National League of Cities (right), listens Almost 2 years after the work- only take the time to leave feedback intently at the FTC Workshop. shop, in the closing days of the if they had a very good or very bad FTC representative), and there was an room for improvement for TNCs Obama administration, the FTC, on experience. Furthermore, the panel- acknowledgement of concerns about and taxicabs to serve underserved November 17th, 2016, published a ists commented that the ratings can an “uneven playing field” between communities in suburban areas, and staff report entitled, The “Sharing” be manipulated with people leaving TNCs and taxicabs/FHVs on issues passengers with disabilities. Overall, Economy: Issues Facing Platforms, fake negative or positive feedback. such as insurance and criminal back- the report provided a comprehensive Participants, and Regulators (“FTC The workshop participants provided ground checks. recitation of the issues and set forth report”), expanding on the find- some suggestions on how to mitigate The FTC report sets forth the dif- the differing opinions on regulating ings of the workshop. The Obama these possible biases or misleading fering opinions stakeholders have on the markets involved, but did not set administration originally expressed ratings. Panelists suggested that the regulations, with representatives of forth a plan of action or direction for interest and concerns about the fair- platforms themselves should provide the new platforms at the FTC work- the agency or stakeholders. ness of state and local transportation interventions to promote the trust shop advocating for lesser regula- A quick look back at history shows regulations allowing the incumbent of the buyers, such as background tions, arguing that their technological that the FTC was once involved in taxicab industry to exist in a supply- checks and insurance. It was noted innovations make them different than taxicab regulation issues in the 1980s. controlled market of limited medal- that because platforms benefit from the incumbent industry. Many work- In 1981, the late President Ronald lions and local permits. However, increased transactions, there can be shop participants agreed that drivers Reagan appointed James C. Miller, since then, no official action was ever a conflict of interest in maintaining for TNCs must undergo a background III, as head of the Federal Trade Com- taken by the FTC, and TNCs such as accurate ratings with an enhanced in- check, yet there was much debate mission (“FTC”). Miller generally Uber and Lyft quickly grew exponen- centive to inflate the quality of users’ about who should be responsible advised against regulation in the name tially to dwarf the influence, size and reputations to increase business. for these checks (the company or of consumer protection. In 1984, the market share of the incumbent for- The report also discusses the ongo- the government), and whether these FTC released a report criticizing lo- hire ground transportation industry ing debate on regulating these new background checks should include cal taxi commissions for the lack of throughout the United States. Uber’s online platforms. The FTC stated fingerprinting. competition in the taxi market, and astronomical and quick growth may that regulators should aim to strike Providing access to the vast alleged this contributed to a lack of have rendered the initial concerns a balance between placing the neces- amount of data collected by the new lower fare competition. Armed with about closed taxi market dominance sary regulations to address consumer marketplace platforms to regulators this report, the FTC brought lawsuits irrelevant given the passage of many protection and safety concerns, while was also discussed in the workshop against the cities of New Orleans and state TNC laws. However, neither the also encouraging innovation in their and report. It was agreed that regu- Minneapolis, challenging their regu- new market dominance of Uber nor respective industries. However, the lators could benefit a lot if they had lation of taxicabs as anticompetitive. the less stringent licensing standards FTC did not specify which regula- access to the data and be alerted to The FTC alleged that these cities had for TNCs other than taxis and for- tions are necessary and which are problems they can address. Addition- colluded with private taxi companies hire vehicles under new state laws not in its report. It is interesting to ally, the report raised privacy and data to impose regulations increasing has led to any official public FTC note, though, that at an Antitrust Law security concerns stemming from taxi fares, limiting the number of action. It remains to be seen whether section meeting of the American Bar the platforms amassing such large available licenses and engaging in the incoming Trump administration Association , held at the National amounts of data on their customers other methods of unfair competition. will become actively involved in Press Club on April 15th, 2015, I and recommended that the FTC pro- Minneapolis avoided the lawsuit by the consumer protection and fair engaged in a robust discussion as a vide guidance in this area. Lastly, the acceding to the FTC and permitting competition issues in the ground panelist (with a panel that included a report discussed how there is great (Continued on Page 38) PAGE 30 • TAXI INSIDER • JANUARY 2017 GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG DMV & TLC Summonses Michael Spevack Attorney-At-Law You Can Receive the Finest Representation At Reasonable Fees ! 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Retrieved from https:// Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, 1 Bowling Green acknowledged Uber and Lyft in the past www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ New Museum of Contemporary Art-235 Bowery as job creators. The incoming President has-the-dc-cab-commission-forgotten- New World Art Ctr-250 Lafayette St # 5 has yet to appoint his new FTC com- who-it-serves/2013/09/06/cb3d0c18- New York City Police Museum-100 Old Slip missioners, but he has chosen Joshua 15a6-11e3-be6e-dc6ae8a5b3a8_story. Poets House - Ten River Terrace Wright, a Republican and former FTC html?utm_term=.0edb60f26e85 Queens Museum of Art-49th Ave. and 111th St. Commissioner to head the transition of 9. Libby Isenstein (October 30, Rubin Museum of Art-150 West 17th Street the FTC - the same Commissioner who 2015). Which Candidates Are Taking Skyscraper Museum - 39 Battery Place wrote the aforementioned Washington Uber to Luxury Hotels? The Atlantic. South Street Seaport Museum - 12 Fulton Street Post article. It remains to be seen what, Retrieved from http://www.theatlantic. The Tenement Museum-108 Orchard St if any, action the FTC will take under com/politics/archive/2015/10/which- Whitney Museum of American Art-945 Madison Ave the new Administration, but the “status candidates-are-taking-uber-to-luxury- quo” is a possibility. hotels/448128/ FOOTNOTES 10. Kia Kokalitcheva (November Off Broadway Shows 1. https://www.ftc.gov/system/fi les/ 29, 2016). What Trump’s Secretary of documents/public_events/636241/shar- Transportation Could Mean for Uber ing_economy_workshop_transcript.pdf and Lyft. Fortune. Retrieved from http:// (Continued from Page 37) SEX TIPS FOR STRAIGHT 2. American Bar Association, Wash- fortune.com/2016/11/29/elaine-chao- WOMEN FROM A GAY MAN PERFECT CRIME ington D.C. 63rd Antitrust Law Spring transportation-uber-lyft/ The 777 Theatre Snapple Theatre Center Meeting, April 15-17, 2015. 11. Alexia Fernandez Campbell (No- 777 Eighth Avenue 210 West 50th Street 3. Eleanor M. Fox (1988), Chair- vember 23, 2016). The Future of the FTC man Miller, The Federal Trade Com- Looks a Lot Like Its Past. The Atlantic. SHEAR MADNESS THE PIGEON IN mission, Economics, and Rashomon. Retrieved from http://www.theatlantic. New World Stages THE TAJ MAHAL Retrieved from http://scholarship. com/business/archive/2016/11/trump- 340 West 50th Street law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent. Irish Repertory Theatre ftc/508535/ 132 West 22nd Street SISTAS: THE MUSICAL St. Lukes Theatre PIP’S ISLAND 308 West 46th Street Skylight Modern 537 West 27th Street STOMP Orpheum Theatre THE PORTAL 126 Second Avenue Minetta Lane Theatre 18 Minetta Lane

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