The city, with its well-intentioned surcharge, kinda bungled the whole thing even more. Until that happens, though, we'll all just suffer through this banal New York charade. Everyone is stupid. Dave Infante is a senior writer at Thrillist. Follow dinfontay on Twitter , Instagram , and Snapchat.
Skip to main content New York News. Sweet Jesus, no. When the backseat is crowded, one passenger is permitted to sit beside the driver. Fares are determined by a meter that should be activated as the taxi begins the journey. Meters charge by a combination of distance and time.
Any tolls bridge, tunnel, etc. Tipping taxi drivers is customary, but also discretionary. Tipping is not required, particularly for rude service, delays caused by the driver, etc. Always get a receipt from the driver. This makes sense. Most of rush hour is driven by the later shift driver, who is suddenly making more money during most of his or her shift.
To keep it fair, the handoff would have to happen a little bit later so that the extra revenue generated by the surcharge gets more evenly distributed between late shift and early shift drivers.
So in fact, the economic theory might suggest that the surcharge the City imposed might have backfired… incentivizing drivers to change keys later into rush hour instead of earlier to keep things fair. The TLC has not released it. I have come up with two proposed solutions and a few other ideas that in combination may just take a dent out of the problem:. Imagine you had a The total amount of pay per 12 hour shift remain the same for both drivers as the current system, but the shift change would be optimal at about 3PM instead of 5PM.
This would increase the overall revenue of drivers since they would be doing the shift change at a time of less demand, leading to more overall taxi drivers. Of course, this is sort of an extreme surcharge set up, but this idea of changing surcharges to move the equilibrium is a real option. The City seems to have gone in the opposite direction with this approach. If fleet owners changed their rental fees on a sliding scale to more fairly match expected revenue to a shift time, you would see more flexibility in the shift change.
Both drivers may end up making the same amount as they did before, the fleet owner would make the same amount as before, and more taxis would be on the road during rush hour.
This may actually end up making both drivers more, since the total 24 hour taxi revenue would be higher due to the fact that the shift change is happening during less busy hours. In general, you should take the time to learn the rules and regulations before writing things like these up: - If the off duty light is not on and your trip is in the five boroughs then the cabbie cannot refuse to take you.
In my couple years in New York taking hundreds of cabs I have never had a cabbie in this situation lock his doors or ask me where I was going before I got in the car. This happens around 4PM. They are not allowed to put off duty light on otherwise. They often can't go to JFK because there is another driver waiting for the car in the next hour. You can and often should use a black car service when traveling during rush hour to the airports. Uber is x the rate of a cab.
Generally, it's best to get in the cab and then tell them where you're going. Mind you, that may mean you're now in the cab with an unhappy driver, but it used to be that was the only reliable way to get a cab from Manhattan to Brooklyn. From my experience, subway from Manhattan to JFK might be actually faster, let alone cheaper.
Yellow cabs have fixed fare from anywhere in NYC to any city airport. This is written on each car. This is why, probably, they tend to refuse: this is not that profitable. Jumping in is best practice but not always possible. Cunning drivers would sometimes ask you where are you going before opening doors, though legally they don't have to, and the passenger should tell them once in the car. Subway from manhattan is almost certainly not faster unless there is very heavy traffic which of course is fairly common on weekdays.
It's economics: when it's raining, cabs will pass on a long-haul fare in order to pick up half a dozen or more short-hauls in the same minutes. I don't see this as so very different from Uber raising prices in response to demand. As others have pointed out: get in the cab first next time to avoid disappointment.
And don't ask, tell the driver where you're going. Can the title of this be changed? I assumed this was some new payment system all NYC Cabs signed up for except 5.
Where as the title is really 'Dear', i. For some reason I have a feeling if this guy pays the cab driver the same amount he pays the uber driver, the cab driver would be more than happy to take him. Wow that's crappy grammar. Because, of course, taxi drivers exist solely to serve you and might not have been going in the opposite direction of the airport. I guess the issue here is that it's illegal for the taxis to pass up fares based on where the passenger is going.
The fact that it happened 5 times in a row is telling. The taxi industry is the exact group fighting for more regulations in order to keep companies like Uber from competing, but they don't want to follow the regulations currently in place.
Experiencing things like this really helps show that the transportation industry is ripe for being disrupted and that companies like Uber are making serious inroads. The taxi industry is not the same thing as taxi drivers. The taxi industry is dominated by the people who own taxi medallions, not the people who drive taxis. The people who actually drive taxis are oppressed by the idiotic inefficiencies of the current regulatory system, much like Uber is.
For instance, cabbies. Or snowing. Or if you've asked for an especially undesirable location. Isn't that exactly what taxi drivers are there to do while they are working. That is, take you where you are going? Why would they have been going in the opposite direction if they were picking up a fare, wouldn't they naturally be going in whatever direction the fare needed them to?
This comment is ridiculous and seems to just advocate a system of poor customer service. Would you be saying this if it was salesmen who refused to sell him a desk, or a phone company who refused to sell him service?
OP - quit your whining. Sounds like the country mouse is complaining about life in the city. The City moves fast, and it looks like you were not moving fast enough. Stop with tired metaphors of "small town rules and old world business. Close the door. Then tell them where you are going. That is how you get to Brooklyn or any other undesirable place in the city. You squandered an opportunity there in Midtown.
I'll explain: 1. It was raining 2. It was Midtown 3. Sounds like it might have been near shift-change. How many times have you tried to get a cab in the rain in midtown? Given those market conditions YOU are the common commodity with little value.
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