City May Raise Taxi Rates for First Time in a Decade

By: Yehuda Alter 

Amid the skyrocketing fuel prices, the NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission announced that it is considering raising taxi rates for the first time in ten years, as well as Uber and Lyft prices as well.

That last such a move was when the TLC instituted a 17% increase in 2012. 

Bhairavi Desai, director of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, a union of 21,000 members across the city, told NY1 she hopes the TLC will raise taximeter rates $1.50 to $2 more per trip. "It'll be a pretty modest raise, but for drivers it will add up."

She cited the skyrocketing of all consumer goods, due to inflation and other factors, as the reason for this proposal, and noted that they will be holding hearings in the coming weeks in which the public will be invited to participate and voice their opinions.