{"id":1839,"date":"2006-12-01T11:38:56","date_gmt":"2006-12-01T19:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/12\/hurry_up_and_wait.html"},"modified":"2006-12-01T11:38:56","modified_gmt":"2006-12-01T19:38:56","slug":"hurry_up_and_wa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/12\/hurry_up_and_wa.html","title":{"rendered":"Hurry Up And Wait"},"content":{"rendered":"

Consumers wonder whether the Taxi & Limousine Commission incentivizing sitting at red lights as a fare hike turns out to be more than expected<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Taxi riders saw red at every stop light yesterday as fare hikes up to 27 percent kicked in — after New Yorkers were promised they’d average only 11 percent.<\/p>\n

Most of the increase came from boosts in the amount cabbies charge for time they’re at a dead stop or crawling.<\/p>\n

When The Post put the new fare to the test, a ride from Penn Station to the Metropolitan Museum of Art came to $18.50. The 5-mile, 29-minute midday trip would have cost $3 less the day before — an increase of nearly 20 percent.<\/p>\n

Passengers were hit even harder on trips closer to rush hour.<\/p>\n

It took 66 minutes to make the 8.7-mile journey from Lincoln Center to Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn during the afternoon, including 37 minutes of waiting time. Under new fare rules, the cost spiked $7.30, or 26.8 percent, to $34.50.<\/p>\n

The Taxi and Limousine Commission had said the increase would amount to only a buck for an average ride — or 11 percent.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

Cabbies, on the other hand, saw green at every light.<\/p>\n

The said the change amounts to about a $50-a-day raise.<\/p>\n

“Wednesday I made $160,” Harpal Chalal said yesterday, his third day driving a cab.<\/p>\n

“But today, I have already made that much, and I still have four hours left on my shift.”<\/p>\n

Drivers have long complained that they lose big dollars in slow traffic and that the fare structure had a built-in incentive to be reckless and run red lights.<\/p>\n

“It’s much safer,” driver Eduard Tamarov, 41, said. “They should have done it a long time ago.”<\/p>\n

Taxi officials say drivers will now earn about $24 an hour, whether they are moving or sitting in slow traffic.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Consumers wonder whether the Taxi & Limousine Commission incentivizing sitting at red lights as a fare hike turns out to be more than expected: Taxi riders saw red at every stop light yesterday as fare hikes up to 27 percent kicked in — after New Yorkers were promised they’d average only 11 percent. Most of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer_issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}