The city will not appeal a judge’s order that slammed the brakes on the Bloomberg administration’s taxi plans.
The preliminary injunction, which a Manhattan judge handed down last week, prevents the Bloomberg administration – at least temporarily – from creating a new class of livery cars that would be allowed to pick up street hails.
The order also prevents the administration from going forward with the sale of new yellow taxi medallions to expand that fleet.
City lawyers on Tuesday informed Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron by letter it won’t fight his decision. City lawyers, however, asked Engoron to swiftly decide three lawsuits brought by opponents of the city’s taxi plans, including fleet owners.
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The taxi monopoly is unconstitutional in the first place. The fact that a medallion goes for $500K proves how much is being ripped off passengers, and there is no rational basis for it. So the medallion owners have no grounds for complaining when their monopoly is relaxed just a little. If they’re not careful the whole law will be struck down. Get the Institute for Justice on the case.