A judge has halted New York City’s plan to create a uniform fleet of yellow cabs by ordering owners to buy a minivan-style vehicle dubbed the “Taxi of Tomorrow.”
Tuesday’s ruling comes just three weeks before cab owners were to be required to start phasing in the new, Nissan-made taxis. City lawyers plan to appeal.
The decision is the latest in a series of lawsuits challenging the new cabs on various grounds.
In this case, the Greater New York Taxi Association and a cab owner said the city Taxi and Limousine Commission overstepped its authority by dictating a particular model of car.
Manhattan state Supreme Court Justice Shlomo Hagler agreed.
The city and Nissan says the chosen cab, the Nissan NV-200, boasts extraordinary safety and other features.
(AP)
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why wait until NOW!!! they had 4 years notice
and don’t say because it isn’t American (the Ford entry for the bid some 4 years ago isn’t made in America
the Ford Transit Connect in made in Turkey & Romania
the Nissan is made in China, Mexico, Japan, India & Indonesia
and 3rd condenser the Karsan V-1 is made in India
BTW ALL 3 designs are VERY similar in shape and size
and i thing its wrong BUT within the right of a city to decide what can be a TAXi