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NYC taxi commission weighs surcharge.

Publication: Business Travel News
Publication Date: 31-OCT-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Despite recent strike threats from one of the associations representing New York City taxi drivers, there appears to be little chance it actually will happen.

Anxieties recently spiked when Bhairavi Desai, executive director of the Taxi Workers Alliance, which represents 6,500 taxi medallion holders, said members might walk out if two demands weren't met: The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission had to immediately add a dollar-per-ride surcharge on all fares to compensate drivers for recent fuel increases and the TLC must cancel plans to install electronic tracking systems in all of the city's more than 12,000 cabs.

While the possibility of a fuel surcharge already is under review, Taxi and Limousine Commission commissioner Matthew Daus emphasized that drivers got the "largest fare increase in the history of the...

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