A taxi to everyone! Last night, Governor Cuomo “obligation” to serve them). A new class of livery cabs (with meter, credit card reader and roof lights) and thousands of new city Medallion taxis want to sell will hit the streets next year.
Cuomo plans to sign the agreement today will create a new class of taxi colors will law comes from the street (whatever color driver to tell you, it’s currently illegal for them to pick you up from the rain) and will allow TLC to issue up to 18,000 license new colors and 2,000 new yellow cab Medallion
In addition to 2,000 wheelchair accessible yellow cab medallion, the deal requires that the first 20 percent of the 6,000 street-license was issued be color greetings for a wheelchair accessible vehicle. After that another 6,000 license will be made available each year for two years, but the percentage of people who will be wheelchair accessible is still TBD. Even better, the city has agreed to subsidize the $ 15,000 per license to help make a color-wheel cars are accessible (for a total of $ 54 million).