The New York Daily reports:
Saying the city is on the verge of being “flooded with tens of thousands more cars,” Mayor de Blasio on Sunday called for more regulation of Uber in his most extensive comments yet on the popular taxi app.Bill de Blasio: the taxi cartel's front man for screwing over consumers. Will Bill de Blasio's family and "friends" be "taken care of " if Strongman Bill restrains trade?
“More than 2,000 new for-hire vehicles are being added to our streets every month, overwhelming the most congested parts of Manhattan,” de Blasio wrote in an Op-Ed published exclusively Sunday in the Daily News.
The huge number of cars added each month means more than 25,000 cars will be added to the streets in the next two years — roughly double the number of yellow cabs on the road, he said.
“It’s our responsibility to act,” said de Blasio, who has long had ties to the yellow-cab industry, a heavy contributor to his campaigns.
