MARCHJULY 20102017 •• TAXITAXI INSIDERINSIDER •• PAGEPAGE 11 INSIDER VOL. 18, NO. 3 “The Voice of the NYC Transportation Industry.” MARCH 2017 Letters To The Editor Page 3 • EDITORIAL Insider News By David Pollack Page 4 • Meet The Commissioners IT’S TME TO BUY OR Page 5 • LEASE MEDALLIONS Op-Ed Get prepared to purchase a NYC taxi medallion! yellow cab already, it is a no-brainer to own your own If the city council of the city of New York taxicab and purchase it from a broker listed By Matther Daus, Esq. passes Intros. 1474 & 1475, there will be on the directory page. (Licensed Brokers Page 6 new opportunities for medallion purchas- To Buy Medallions). • ers: men, women, current drivers, and If you cannot afford to purchase a Taxi Attorney investors to save thousands of dollars on medallion, you can lease a medallion and By Michael Spevack each transfer! 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While I was there then Bloomberg ,between both of them they destroyed Editor-in-Chief for inspection of my yellow cab, ten, that’s right ten brand the taxi business ,,taxi owners went bankrupt be cause David Pollack new yellow cabs failed inspection before they ever had of NYC corruption .created by the mayor and TLC. one passenger in them! How does that happen? Charbel S. Pierre The More I Listen Vision Zero Dear Taxi Dave, Dear Taxi Dave, I love your show. Best transportation show on the in- Vision Zero doesn’t apply to UBER. The mayor ternet. I have a love hate relationship with your show. should drive a cab on a Saturday night and see the I miss manhattan so much but thank god i moved mess UBER causes on every street. from New York City. Columnists Marie I rather sit home and watch the Honey Mooners and listen to Ralph Cramdon talk about driving his Matthew Daus, Esq. Eye On The Road bus up and down Madison Avenue then actually try to do it these days. Larry Fisher Dear Taxi Dave, Thank you Taxi dave and your crew. With all the phones on the dashboards of app Joseph M. driven vehicles, the drivers frequently take their Nat Goldbetter eyes off the road while their vehicles are in mo- tion. I ask, is it good public policy to constantly Yellow Cabs Need Ira Goldstein, Esq. have driver’s eyes off the road? Larger Cabs. Suv’s Like Jules Abe Mittleman Suburbans, Yukons Etc Employment Dear Taxi Dave, Michael Spevack, Esq. Dear Taxi Dave, Since this is an open & fair market then TLC Former TLC employees should not be able to work should allow larger SUV cabs. This is one of the main Jerry Kremer for any company that the TLC regulates for life! reasons why we aren’t profi table. At the airports there Ram is a need of SUV for families & group of people in the city who want to travel together to a destination. Why can’t yellow cab owners, garages have SUVs Layout & Graphics My Dream as yellow cabs? Open & fair market? Dragonfl y Graphics LLC Dear Taxi Dave, Tommy I hate Uber. They constantly send me pings 30 minutes out from a casino in a different state. Yellow Then I end up with the two minute time out. My Taxi Insider acceptance rating is down to 32%. It’s making me Dear Taxi Dave, hate to turn on the app. To much advertising for Uber, and nothing for 11 Edge Water lane My dream is to get a ping and the pax is Travis. yellow cabs!!! In the dream, I get out on the highway and set the Stephen B Haverstraw, NY 10927 cruise for 70mph, slow down to 30mph, hit resume Phone: (718) 706-TAXI(8294) and bail out of the car. He’s in the backseat, scream- Uber in NYC ing, as the car speeds off. There. ..you wanted a Dear Taxi Dave, — self driving car, you got one. De Blasio destroyed the taxi industry and medal- Alan M. lion owner’s futures and retirements. He approve uber E-mail:[email protected] in New York City with zero laws. I wonder how much Funeral? of a contribution uber made to his campaign... Copyright © 2017 by TAXI INSIDER. All Dear Taxi Dave; Gloria from Little Neck NY rights reserved. Neither this newspaper nor There is an old saying :” while the doctors trying any part therof may be reproduced, copied, to fi gure the cure, the patient dies” UBER or transmitted in any form, electronic or well tell the taxi industry died long time ago. and mechanical including photocopying, mi- the city still trying to fi gure out what to do. Pay To Play Payoffs crofi lming, recording or by any information Next we should start to find funeral Dear Taxi Dave, retrieving system without the express written home............ UBER’s money is making life in NYC cheap. Pre- permission of the publishers. The copyright Michael arranged rides are never the consideration of someone is extended to the design and text created partially inebriated. Business will be more successful for advertisements. This publication will in the upcoming years. Busy NYC needs regulated taxi not be responsible for errors in advertise- How To Win service. Young vulnerable adults will make mistakes ment beyond the cost of the space occupied Dear Taxi Dave, getting into the wrong car. When the superego is com- by the error. Bylined articles represent the The 79st boat basin had to spend millions on their promised by alcohol mistakes will be made. UBER sole opinion of the writer and are not neces- legal rights to keep their boats anchored as homes. should never be picking up rides in a few minutes. People sarily in accordance with the views of TAXI Taxis need to have fought the MTA tax the loss of the have forever tried to put their drunk friends into yellow INSIDER.