City Comptroller John C. Liu said the following about Taxi and Limousine Commissioner
David Yassky’s flip-flop on wheelchair-accessible cabs:
“City
Hall spent months resisting our calls to make the entire taxi fleet
wheelchair accessible and insisting that the
flawed, non-wheelchair accessible Taxi of Tomorrow was the only choice
for the fleet. Now, after we rejected the Taxi of Tomorrow contract,
City Hall has apparently changed its mind. Hooray! If another hearing is
what it takes to get the Bloomberg Administration
to do the right thing for New Yorkers, let’s go.”
Background:
In December 2012, Comptroller Liu rejected the contract for the flawed, non-wheelchair accessible Taxi of Tomorrow:
http://www.comptroller.nyc. gov/press/2012_releases/pr12- 12-134.shtm
In
May 2012, Comptroller Liu requested that Mayor Bloomberg and the TLC
amend the proposed Taxi of Tomorrow design to require it be wheelchair
accessible before sending
any agreement for registration. Comptroller Liu’s May 2, 2012 letter to
the Mayor is here:
http://www.comptroller.nyc. gov/press/2012_releases/pr12- 05-047.shtm
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