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• Taxi And Limousine Commission Drives Unlicensed "Dollar" Vans Off The Road

  The Taxi and Limousine Commission is cracking down on gypsy cabs and illegal dollar vans, and its enforcement team takes hundreds of unlicensed vehicles off the streets every month. NY1's Courtney Gross filed the following report. To view our videos, you   from NY1 Read more »

• Court Sides With Critics of City's Taxi of Tomorrow Plan

  By Ted Mann A judge in Manhattan threw plans for a mandatory uniform taxi cab into new doubt on Wednesday, siding with critics who say city law requires that regulators let drivers use hybrid vehicles.The ruling declared the law creating the so-called "T   from Wall Street Journal Read more »

• Uber wins lawsuit in NYC, gets to test its app

  Uber, a startup that wanted to test an idea of allowing people to use an app to hail a cab, has won its day in court, getting permission to deploy through the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC). The lawsuit had been brought by the city (li   from Rev2.org Read more »

• Uber gets final approval to be first e-hail service in NYC, UberTAXI to follow ‘momentarily’

  Uber, the private car service, has received final approval from the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission to participate in the city’s new pilot program. In doing so, it makes it possible for people to hail a taxi cab using the Uber smartphone app.   from The Next Web Read more »

• First-ever taxi e-hail app is cleared

  Uber is back in city taxis. The Taxi and Limousine Commission said it made history today, approving Uber as the first electronic hailing app for a 12-month pilot program it has been developing. "We will be able to see e-hail services made available to th   from New York Post Read more »

• Judge allows taxi app in New York City

  Andy Palmer, Executive Vice-President of Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., stands next to the "NV200" during the press conference for New York's taxi "NV200" at Nissan's global headquarters in Yokohama, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan, on May 29, 2012. The NV200 was ch   from United Press International Read more »

• Judge gives green light to taxi 'e-hail' apps

  The Taxi and Limousine Commission scored a big win Tuesday when a state judge dismissed a lawsuit by livery cab owners against the agency's plan to test so-called "e-hail" smartphone apps. "Any experiment to determine whether an e-hail program will work   from Crain's New York Read more »

• Evict war at Coney co-op

  Angry residents of a Coney Island co-op say they’re living in an American-style gulag, thanks to their iron-fisted, Soviet-born board president. The animosity between the Trump Village residents and their co-op president, Igor Oberman, 45 — who works as   from New York Post Read more »

• Livery Cabbie’s Death During Detention Ruled A Homicide

  NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — The New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers has raised new questions about Taxi and Limousine Commission officers, after a livery cabbie died while being detained for allegedly picking up illegal fares at John F. Kennedy Interna   from CBS New York Read more »

• Bloomberg administration reverses course on hybrid taxis again

  Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Taxi and Limousine Commission has reversed itself, again, on hybrid cabs. According to new, proposed rules issued today, cabbies will still be able to drive hybrid taxis on New York City streets, even after the Taxi of Tomorrow,   from Capital New York Read more »

• Your NYC Cab Driver Is Breaking The Law When He Uses GPS

  "GPS is actually not allowed by the Taxi and Limousine Commission in New York. Though a lot of people still do use [it]. At this point I have the roads mostly memorized. But if the passenger is going somewhere I don't know, which is rarely the case, I ei   from The Business Insider Read more »

• Livery cab owners sue over taxi 'e-hail' app

  The chairman of the Taxi and Limousine Commission says the groups that are suing want to keep the taxi industry and New Yorkers "in the dark ages." new york city, taxi, livery cab, new york news NEW YORK -- New York City livery cab owners are fighting ne   from WABC Read more »

• City cautious about going all in with Trojan's Valentine's Day cab

  When it comes to a Valentine's Day promotion by one of the biggest contraceptive companies in the world, the city's Taxi and Limousine Commission aims to be more safe than sorry. The Trojan condom company, who previously had a long battle with the city o   from amNewYork Read more »

• Condom cab hits pothole at City Hall

  "On its face, they would at least be in violation of the provision that you cannot hold yourself out as a taxi or in the manner of a taxi if you are not properly licensed by the Taxi and Limousine Commission," Mr. Fromberg said. "Our legal department is   from Crain's New York Read more »

• Taxi commission orders black cars to provide trip data

  Amid a flurry of lawsuits, the Taxi and Limousine Commission is directing livery and black-car owners to provide detailed information on their drivers, trips and fares to better assess the effects of smartphone apps on the industry. Failure to comply wit   from Crain's New York Read more »