There’s another taxi strike on today, as the Taxi Workers Alliance protests the mandate by the city to add credit card readers and GPS systems to all taxis. Fortunately, while taxis are convenient, they really aren’t mandatory for moving around the city. And unlike the last strike, it’s not happening during an event like Fashion Week, so we won’t see a sharp uptick in fashion-industry types having to refill their prescriptions of Xanax early because they had to share a cab with an unfashionable person.

According to good ol’ NY1, the taxi riders they’ve talked to have said they haven’t had problems hailing cabs today. Even so, the city’s zone plan is in effect, so keep that in mind if you do hop into a taxi - it’s $10 just to get in the cab and another $5 for each zone on top of that. And that’s per person. So the taxi ride that my manfriend and I might have taken this evening that would normally cost me under $10 will cost $20, since there are two of us and we’re staying within the same zone. I’ll walk, thanks.

The city’s press release is here and contains some good information, including the definitions of the zones, which you’ll want to know. The last time I tried to hop in a cab during a strike, the driver tried to claim that the zones were MUCH smaller than the city said they were. So if you do take a cab, know the info so you don’t get ripped off.

Taxi passengers, how was it today?

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