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Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Cobble Hill, Brooklyn
Turtle Bay
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Occasionally passengers get out of the cab on the street side, which is illegal, it tends to be done by passengers who aren't as familiar with the New York taxi experience.
Our doors are extra long, so big that I couldn't pass until the passenger was done with the cab. Since I was empty though, I didn't care, and I took the opportunity to snap another picture.
Meatpacking District
Javits Center- Far West Side
And here, at the convention center, was the result of such rash exiting procedure. We aren't treated kindly by the state police when we go to the curb, rather, we have to procede to the line of taxis in the middle of the street. And when another cab didn't stop behind the other, these two embarrassed and disgusted cab drivers were stranded at the Javits Center making phone calls and taking pictures as evidence for one scraped taxi, and another with the door bent backwards.
2 comments:
If you're not meant to get out on the street side, are you meant to get out in the middle of the busy road??
well, it's complicated, the state police who look after the convention center, don't want too much traffic going to the curb because then it bottle necks with the taxi line that lines up where i am in the middle. it's not really a road, and it varies quick between busy and empty. also you want to unload preferably while still being on the line to pick up new passengers, if you go all the way to the curb, then when you leave the curb you can't find the line again. what happened here i guess is the cabbie saw the curb, then saw the line, didn't know where to drop off. in his confusion passenger gets out cause he stopped to long. the other cab confused by him stopping there, thinks he isn't discharging passengers and so he goes passed and to the curb, too many unpredictable things all happened at once.
what they should do is clearly indicate with the signs where taxis should go, then they should install a concrete sidewalk for the passengers to get out on, right int the middle of the street.
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