Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Taxis & Limos

Mother of Cooper Stock: NYPD Must Hold Reckless Cab Drivers Accountable

By Brad Aaron | Jun 13, 2014 | 1 Comment

Update: According to a spokesperson for Mayor de Blasio, today’s scheduled bill signing was postponed. After a Wednesday hearing where he was joined by council members and department heads, Mayor de Blasio is scheduled to sign a package of bills today aimed at improving traffic safety. Though its signing will come later due to a […]

City Council Passes Several Bills to Reduce Reckless Driving

By Brad Aaron | May 29, 2014 | 58 Comments

The City Council today passed a slate of bills and resolutions aimed at improving street safety. The 11 bills — outlined in detail here — include Intro 238, which would make it a misdemeanor for a driver to “make contact” with a pedestrian or cyclist who has the right of way, punishable by up to […]

TLC Won’t Renew Hack License of Cab Driver Who Killed Cooper Stock

By Brad Aaron | May 23, 2014 | 1 Comment

The cab driver who killed 9-year-old Cooper Stock won’t be prosecuted by Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance, but he won’t have a hack license much longer. Koffi Komlani has not driven a cab since he struck Cooper and his father in an Upper West Side crosswalk in January, according to Allan Fromberg, spokesperson for the […]

Manhattan DA Cy Vance Won’t Prosecute Cab Driver Who Killed 9-Year-Old

By Brad Aaron | May 22, 2014 | 37 Comments

Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance will file no criminal charges against the cab driver who killed 9-year-old Cooper Stock and injured his father in an Upper West Side crosswalk in January. Lisa Belkin of Yahoo News reports that prosecutors met Wednesday with Cooper’s parents, Richard Stock and Dana Lerner. “They told me there is nothing […]

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 […]

Swapping Horses for Taxis Would Saddle CBD With Even More Gridlock

By Charles Komanoff | Apr 28, 2014 | 7 Comments

That didn’t last long. Last Thursday, less than 24 hours after a mayoral spokesman floated the idea of letting owners of the city’s 68 horse carriage medallions swap them for taxi medallions, Mayor de Blasio reportedly laughed off the notion. A good thing, too. It’s generally poor policy to buy off one entitlement with another […]

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