Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Taxi and Limousine Commission

TLC Tells City Council It’s Looking to Get Dangerous Cabbies Off the Road

By Brad Aaron | Mar 7, 2014 | 8 Comments

Here are more highlights from Thursday’s City Council transportation committee budget hearing. Conan Freud, chief operating officer for the Taxi and Limousine Commission, said the agency is working on driver education, implementing technology, and increasing enforcement to improve driver safety. Freud said the TLC is looking to incentivize safe driving and remove unsafe cab drivers […]

First Look at Bill de Blasio’s Vision Zero Report and Street Safety Agenda

By Ben Fried | Feb 18, 2014 | 5 Comments

Mayor Bill de Blasio and several of his agency commissioners released the administration’s Vision Zero report at a school on West End Avenue this afternoon. Streetsblog’s Stephen Miller will have more from the mayor’s event later today. In the meantime, here’s a quick rundown of the major takeaways from the report [PDF], which outlines both an […]

Will NYC Act to Get Deadly Cab Drivers Off the Streets? [Updated]

By Brad Aaron | Feb 10, 2014 | 24 Comments

An analysis by the Post confirms that cab drivers who injure and kill pedestrians in NYC rarely face sanctions from the Taxi and Limousine Commission. The Post examined 16 serious crashes since 2009 and found that only two drivers had their hack licenses revoked. The cabbies who killed Timothy Keith and Cooper Stock and the […]

Barron Lerner: It’s Time to Treat Reckless Driving Like Drunk Driving

By Brad Aaron | Jan 24, 2014 | 21 Comments

The most basic flaw in the New York State traffic justice system is that in most cases it fails to hold motorists accountable for deadly recklessness. Unless a motorist is under the influence of alcohol or drugs, killing someone with a car is usually not considered a crime. In a column for the Times, Barron […]

9-Year-Old Boy, Mother, and Senior Killed in Weekend of Motorist Violence

By Brad Aaron | Jan 13, 2014 | 20 Comments

Three pedestrians were fatally struck by motorists over the weekend, bringing to seven the number of people killed while walking in New York City in the first two weeks of 2014. Twenty pedestrians were killed by city motorists in January 2013, according to NYPD data, and 12 pedestrians and one cyclist died in January 2012. […]

TLC Fact Book Excludes Facts About Crashes or Driver Safety Training

By Stephen Miller | Jan 6, 2014 | 19 Comments

The Taxi and Limousine Commission’s 2014 Taxi Fact Book [PDF], released at the end of the Bloomberg administration, includes facts and figures on almost everything taxi- or livery-related, from trip length to passenger demographics. But there’s one important thing the report fails to mention: driver safety. Cab crashes account for some significant share of traffic […]

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