Owners of the citys taxicab fleets are again inside their common posture of applying their reluctant drivers for a club to coerce the city into authorizing bigger fares.

There may be undoubted benefit to your proprietors competition that their running costs have gone up sharply, what with price ranges increased for fuel, tires, coolants and anything else they use. Although the very intricate character of the New York taxicab business and also the critical job it performs in mass transportation right here make the determination of latest fare schedules a matter also intricate for resolution by means of an proprietor†enforced “strike” by 50 % of your citys eleven,787 medallion cabs.

The regrettable—in truth, inexcusable—truth is usually that even now, three several years following its development, the regulatory agency town create to monitor the market does not have monetary details in depth adequate to deliver a sound foundation for identifying what an equitable new rate would be or what its effect could be On about†all company.

A simple purpose with the Taxi and Limousine Fee was to choose politics out with the taxi fare and substitute a public†utility variety of regulation, though the uniform accounting procedure now in impact is admittedly inadequate for examining the house owners need for relief.

The process is created more challenging by The point that independent owner†motorists controlling virtually 50 % the medallion cabs are Keeping aloof in the fleet house owners petition. They plan to carry on driving at the aged charge. Gypsy cab motorists are still at fees nicely underneath Those people within the medallion cabs, lots of within the levels that prevailed resource prior to the final official rise in 1971. And unionized motorists to the fleets haven't but concluded negotiation of their own individual new wage contracts. Most share the warranted concern in the operator†drivers that the principal influence of a major jump in fares would merely be to travel away riders and Lower income from guidelines.

Neither the commission nor the City Council can find the money for to let themselves be stampeded right into a untimely ruling. The interests with the field as well of taxi riders might be most effective served by a reasoned balancing of the many equities.