For now, commercial parking signs leave yellow cabs out.<\/p>\n
“Commercial parking, we cannot park there. If we park there, they give us a ticket,” cab driver Khandaker Maniruzzaman said.<\/p>\n
The city’s Department of Transportation is proposing to change that, allowing taxis to pay to park at commercial meters for up to three hours.<\/p>\n
The drivers NY1 found taking a break at a relief stand on 21st Street and Seventh Avenue hadn’t heard about the proposal. But they didn’t need an explanation of the parking problem.<\/p>\n
“We have very limited restroom and parking spot in the city, so we face a lot of difficulty,” cab driver Gurbachan Singh said.<\/p>\n
The DOT said the Central Business District has 55 taxi relief stands, with nearly 300 spaces available to taxis, some shared with for-hire vehicles.<\/p>\n
The commercial parking meter network is much larger, with roughly 13,000 spaces in that same part of the city.<\/p>\n
“It’s very hard to find parking,” Maniruzzaman said.<\/p>\n
This proposal would be an extension of a City Council pilot program opening commercial meters to for-hire vehicles.<\/p>\n
“It depends on the cost for the pay per hour,” cab driver Oumar Barry said.<\/p>\n
Barry said when a free taxi relief spot isn’t available and a driver needs to pull over, the alternative can mean parking where they’re not supposed to and risking a ticket.<\/p>\n
“I get tickets. It’s a big problem,” Barry said.<\/p>\n
Finding a space to stop without losing part of the day’s earnings is what the Taxi and Limousine Commission said the proposal is meant to ease.<\/p>\n
For now, the signs still say commercial parking.<\/p>\n
The proposal would change what those signs mean for thousands of cab drivers looking for somewhere legal to stop.<\/p>\n
If the agency moves forward with the proposal, it would then have to decide when cabs could begin to park in commercial spots.<\/p>\n
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