NYC TLC legislature passes bill placing 1 year moratorium and cap on app based ride-hail car licenses Uber & Lyft

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45123806
NYC Bill places cap on Uber, Lyft and other App based services & recommends minimum hourly wage of $17.22 per hour for drivers.  This comes as a celebration for NYC Yellow Taxi Cab drivers who have complained of unfair competition and lost wages and environmentalist complaining of overcrowding and pollution.

Uber Gets Into Serious Street Fightin’ With City Government

Uber Gets Into Serious Street Fightin’ With City Government

Uber uses third-party criminal checks that rely on name checks only, whereas taxi drivers use fingerprint checks linked to the FBI’s database

TLC Cracks Down On Illegal Taxis At Airports; CBS2 Goes Undercover « CBS New York

TLC Cracks Down On Illegal Taxis At Airports; CBS2 Goes Undercover « CBS New York