JANUARYJULY 20102017 •• TAXITAXI INSIDERINSIDER •• PAGEPAGE 11 INSIDER VOL. 18, NO. 1 “The Voice of the NYC Transportation Industry.” JANUARY 2017 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! 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Michael Simon Publisher & Dear Taxi Dave, Great show. Malachi McCourt is awesome! 6 Days for Editor-in-Chief Thanks for the info and the entertainment. You will 60 hrs a week? be famous in France! 33 million people. Wow. Keep David Pollack on trucking! Dear Taxi Dave, Mike Spevack Most of us have to work 7 days a week. What gives them the right to tell me when I have to work or not? If I choose to work instead of taking Apps a day off I should be able to. Especially if I sleep Dear Taxi Dave, 8 hours before every shift. Arro app and Curb app should be on the taxi doors Tom with the taxi rates. 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.