The NEW YORK POST continued its attack on Mayor Bloomberg who claimed yesterday he doesn’t remember unloading an f-bomb-laced tirade on a taxi-fleet kingpin during a Knick game last week. Taxi Club Management CEO Gene Freidman, who won a legal challenge to Bloomberg’s “Taxi of Tomorrow” based on a technicality requiring more Hybrid cabs, told The Post Tuesday that an enraged Bloomberg vowed, “Come January 1, when I am out of office, I am going to destroy your f–king industry!”……I truly wish Bloomberg would destroy the current taxi industry and replace it with something that is more in line with the real world and I wish newspapers like the POST would support this. Surely we should all want what is best for the City at large?
- A taxi won’t take you to 80 percent of our city: To those who argue that Bloomberg is fighting for them rich folks again, thats simply not true.
- Many cabs don’t stop for people based on their looks or where they might be going.
- Older taxis spew too much pollution. Most are filthy. Many stink.
- The variance in cabs right now is a disgrace: most provide barely enough legroom for midgets or amputees. MOst cannot accommodate a handicapped person.
- Technology has to be installed to allow a cab to be called and to be able to identify the best and quickest routes that avoid traffic and congestion.
- The changing of shifts all at the very same time (between 3 and 4pm) is a joke……the joke is on us.
There are people who go to court to stop using modern technology and the CAB OF TOMORROW may not happen now. Freidman and other taxi operators sued to block the plan. A judge ruled last Wednesday, the day before the mayor’s dust-up with Freidman, that city codes prohibited the plan because they require hybrids to be part of the fleet.