New York CIty’s Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) approved a fare increase of its metered taxi fleet. \u00a0This fare hike is the first in six years. \u00a0The flag drop remains at the current $2.50 but the per-distance rate increases to $0.50 for every fifth of a mile (from the previous $0.40), bringing the per-mile charge to $2.50. \u00a0This is designed to affect longer trips rather than the shorter, and TLC claims a driver will make on average $130 per a 12-hour shift under the new plan.<\/p>\n
Other changes include an increase of flat-rate from JFK Airport to Manhattan from the current $45 to $52 and Newark airport extra charge from the current $15 to $17.50.<\/p>\n
Another noticeable change is the way credit card fees are incurred by the drivers. \u00a0Now, a driver pays $9 fee per shift, rather than paying $5% of every trip.<\/p>\n
According to the Taxi Rate Comparison Chart at TaxiFareFinder (http:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/rates.php<\/a>), New York ranked 15th among major US cities. Similar chart was used by TLC to justify this increase. (http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2012\/07\/10\/tlc_hearing.php<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New York CIty’s Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) approved a fare increase of its metered taxi fleet. \u00a0This fare hike is the first in six years. \u00a0The flag drop remains at the current $2.50 but the per-distance rate increases to $0.50 for every fifth of a mile (from the previous $0.40), bringing the per-mile charge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":664,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions\/664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}