NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio seeks to extend caps on Uber and Lyft to combat congestion
-- New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio moved to permanently extend the cap on for-hire vehicles working for companies including Uber, Lyft, Via and to add restrictions on how long such cars can cruise without passengers in part of Manhattan, seeking to ease congestion on traffic-clogged streets.“For too long, app companies have taken advantage of hardworking drivers, choking our streets with congestion and driving workers into poverty,” de Blasio said.
The surge in competition for fares has weighed on drivers who in some cases paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for medallions, which have since tumbled in value. Drivers for app-based services didn’t have to pay such licensing fees. Unrestrained growth and increased competition has suppressed pay for drivers of Yellow Cabs, black car liveries and luxury limousines. Hundreds of cab owners couldn’t earn enough to pay their car leases and taxi-license medallions, and economic desperation became a factor in more than half a dozen driver suicides in 2017 and 2018. About 85% of drivers for app-based companies earned less than $17.22 an hour, according to an industry study by New School’s Center for New York City Affairs.
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