And Just Think How Much You Could Have Charged Them If You Had A Credit Card Machine Installed

Like they say, we all show our support in our own way:

Making double or triple their normal pay wasn’t enough for some greedy scabbies, who used the final day of the strike as an opportunity to rip off desperate New Yorkers and unsuspecting tourists.

Marketing executive Barbara Young said she was charged $20 for a trip from Lexington Avenue and 34th Street to Penn Station, double the $10 fare she should have paid under the emergency flat rates imposed by Mayor Bloomberg for the duration of the two-day hackout.

“I took the cab anyway because I had a lot to carry,” she said.

One cabby charged a tourist $100 for a ride from Kennedy Airport to Midtown, more than three times the $30 he should have charged, according to a doorman at the Hotel Pennsylvania.

Marco Segall said that despite hailing several cabs, he could not find one willing to charge him the $15 fare he should have paid under the temporary zoning plan.

One driver even asked him how much he wanted to pay.

“How much am I supposed to pay?” he said. “They’re racking it up, and they know it.”

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Alliance leader Bhairavi Desai said that by taking a stand, she will gain new members and more clout against the city.

Bus drivers, UPS deliverymen, cyclists and pedestrians all said the streets were so much easier to navigate with fewer taxis on the road that they wished the strike would continue.

Some transportation experts said the strike provided New Yorkers a taste of what traffic might be like under congestion pricing.