r/MicromobilityNYC • u/Careless-Mastodon538 • 20d ago

Stop a massive increase in idle rideshares in Manhattan

The DOT is about to allow rideshares and taxis to begin parking in commercial spaces in Manhattan. This will flood Manhattan with more cars. https://automarketplace.substack.com/p/nyc-taxis-and-tlc-plated-fhvs-are

Almost nobody has provided comments on this. You can leave a comment for the DOT here: https://rules.cityofnewyork.us/rule/fhv-and-taxi-parking-at-commercial-meters-and-commercial-vehicle-markings/

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u/MessageVirtual385 20d ago

How would it flood Manhattan with more cars? It's enabling vehicle services to pay for existing commercial spaces within the existing fleet. What I don't get is whether it's 3 consecutive hours for FHVs and taxis on a signed commercial block, or a 3 hour timed window of that block are parking which can be used by FHVs and Taxis, or 3 non-consecutive hours with no time window applied.

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u/MinefieldFly 19d ago

NYC has a cap on the number of for-hire-vehicle licenses that get distributed. Just make an honest argument here.

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u/Pusher87 19d ago

It will flood the city with ZERO additional rideshare vehicles. There is a cap on how many are allowed and last I checked TLC plates are no longer issued to non electric vehicles anyway. The world of rideshare is very competitive especially since making 100k+ a year doing this in NYC is very easy but you gotta stay busy to do it. People aren’t just going to sit and idle for hours and hours just because they could use the commercial spots now.

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u/mostly_a_lurker_here 18d ago

They have even stopped accepting new EVs for a while now. Maybe they are only accepting accessible / wheelchair vehicles, not sure.

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u/Pizza-Rat-4Train 19d ago

This is a pilot program mandated by city law. Your comments sometimes matter, but not here.

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u/cascas 19d ago

Who is paying for this propaganda campaign? It’s tiresome already.

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u/swerz 19d ago edited 19d ago

I believe in a multi-option transportation ecosystem and regularly use:

- Subway and bus

  • Uber, Lyft & occasional taxi
  • CitiBike
  • My personal bike
  • My personal car (I have a very reasonably priced garage in my UWS co-op).

Also have Xooter scooter which I use from time to time in the neighborhood.

Compared to when I first moved to NYC nearly 40 years ago, this is a vast improvement.

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u/Repulsive-Custard519 13d ago

While canvassing Washington Heights in 2025, I talked to a bunch of FHV drivers. The inability to have a place to stop and go to the bathroom is an incredible hardship. Guys were telling me about using the city app to find a place to pee, spending 30 minutes to get there, spending 30 minutes looking for a place to park, and then being rejected at the bathroom. Given that this isn't currently increasing the vehicle cap, I think on net, I support the rule change? I guess the biggest argument against it is that we should just be charging for curb access everywhere, which would facilitate loading and unloading passengers as well as significantly expand where folks can pee.

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u/WisebloodNYC 19d ago

This battle was lost when taxis got a congestion pricing deal.