Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Taxi and Limousine Commission

No Mention of Cab Safety Tech as TLC Commish Outlines Vision Zero Budget

By Brad Aaron | May 16, 2014 | 1 Comment

Mayor de Blasio’s Vision Zero Action Plan contains a number of initiatives to improve cab driver safety, including “black box” technology to monitor cabbie behavior. TLC Commissioner Meera Joshi told the City Council in early May that the agency has issued RFIs for a telematics pilot program, but she didn’t mention the program during testimony at Thursday’s council […]

Takeaways From This Week’s City Council Vision Zero Hearing

By Brad Aaron | May 2, 2014 | 3 Comments

The office of Ydanis Rodriguez says he is aiming to get several traffic safety bills passed in the near future, while others that were taken up by his transportation committee at a Wednesday Vision Zero hearing may be held up. At a press conference announcing the Broadway arterial slow zone Thursday, Rodriguez said of the […]

Slew of Traffic Safety Bills on Council Transpo Committee Agenda

By Brad Aaron | Apr 24, 2014 | 14 Comments

The City Council transportation committee has a full docket of traffic safety bills on the agenda for its April 30 meeting. We’ll have more on some of these bills in future posts, but for now here’s a summary. There are a number of bills pertaining to taxi safety. Intro 276 would institute a one-year pilot […]

Letter Grades for Taxi and Livery Companies: TLC Commish Receptive to It

By Ben Fried | Apr 22, 2014 | 2 Comments

What if taxi and livery drivers in NYC received letter grades to reflect their safety records, the same way restaurants get grades from the health department? Eric McClure of Park Slope Neighbors raised the possibility at last night’s Vision Zero town hall in Park Slope, and found a receptive audience in new TLC Commissioner Meera […]

On Safety, New TLC Commissioner Meera Joshi Has Her Work Cut Out For Her

By Brad Aaron | Apr 11, 2014 | 1 Comment

Two cab drivers fatally struck 22-year-old Kelly Gordon last night as she crossed York Avenue with her sister and a friend. Gordon was at least the fifth person killed by a city cab driver in the last 12 months, and the second this year, after 9-year-old Cooper Stock and his father were hit on the […]

At Manhattan Vision Zero Forum, NYPD Says Better Crash Data Coming Soon

By Stephen Miller | Mar 27, 2014 | 4 Comments

The Vision Zero town hall roadshow returned to Manhattan last night with a well-attended forum at John Jay College. Elected officials, agency representatives and the public gathered to discuss the city’s plan to eliminate traffic fatalities and to offer suggestions for the initiative. Like last week’s forum in Astoria, some new details came out over […]

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