The city's Taxi and Limousine Commission unanimously approved a regulation that would prevent owners of yellow taxi medallions, who often lease drivers the right to operate taxis in New York, from installing any signage a taxicab owner "reasonably" deems inappropriate.
A variety of experts are telling leasing drivers that it's better not to overplay their hands: a proposal from the borrower might lead the lender to get confident and jack up proposed costs and interest rates.
But for all the back-and-forth on Tuesday over the legal significance of Mr. Emanuel's tax returns, city stickers, car registrations, leases and driver's licenses, there seemed to be a larger, nonlegal subtext to the proceeding.
Project Better Place (backed by $200 million in venture capital) will construct up to 200 battery-exchange stations and 500,000 parking spots with charging capacity; then it will lease to drivers the lithium-ion batteries that power the cars.
For the future, there is also talk of easing out New York City's Police and Sanitation Departments, which lease large driver-training facilities within Floyd Bennett, though their leases will not expire for more than a decade, said Peter McCarthy, an assistant park superintendent.
Ryder Dedicated combines the equipment, maintenance and administrative services of a full service lease with drivers and additional services.
FORM OF IDENTIFICATION: Social Security Cards for every household member (print-outs from your local Social Security Office, current Human Services and current Housing leases and/or Driver's license/State picture ID are acceptable as proof of Social Security numbers).
But the two groups disagree sharply about how much it costs drivers to lease cabs, the drivers' largest expense.
First, he had to deal with the fall-out of a federal corruption investigation into the way the state handed out leases and drivers' licenses.
Pidgeon wants to speed up the introduction of electric buses and black taxis, the latter backed with subsidy to encourage cabbies to switch to them and a City Hall bulk buy of vehicles for leasing to drivers or garages.
Fleet owners want to increase the cap on how much they can charge drivers to lease cabs, while the drivers want a reduction in that cap.
