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The Post looks at the latest in taxi complaints. An average of 1 out of every four cabdrivers received a complaint according to the Taxi and Limousine Commission (11,913 complaints, 40,000 drivers), which is a 17% increase over last year. Also verbal-abuse violations are up 14.2 percent (624 last year to 713 this year) and physical abuse violations also went up 2.3 percent (129 last year to 132 this year). TLC spokesman Allan Fromberg tells the Post, "Ridership and the number of drivers have both gone up appreciably. Proportionally, complaints have not gone up to that extent."
Verbal abuse we can understand, since, for some reason, cabdrivers don't like driving to Brooklyn OR puking drunkards in their backseat. But physical abuse...that must be another range of cab ridership we're unfamiliar wtih.
File a complaint online with the TLC.
Gothamist ponders a cabdriver's apocalyptic warning.
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Not sure about your stats, Jen. Yes, there were 12,000-odd complaints out of 40,000 drivers, but that does not mean that "An average of 1 out of every four cabdrivers received a complaint". Let's say that the average cabdriver makes 25 trips per day, 350 days a year. That would mean a total of 350 million taxi rides per year, generating those 12,000 complaints. Hell, just half a dozen bad drivers could easily account for a huge proportion of those complaints. I would guess that the chances of any given cabby having been complained about in the past year are closer to 1 in 50 than to 1 in 4.
Definitely many of the complaints could be lodged against the same driver. But if you're looking at glossed over averages...
I'm with Mr Salmon; a more important number than the 11k complaints into 40k drivers is the trend: There are more complaints than last period. However: Is it now easier to make complaints? How long has the online complaint thingy been up?
Felix- don't be such a nerd. The point is that cab riding is not nearly as fun and carefree as it was last year.
But why just pick on cabs?
The whole place is becoming a colder, more expensive LA- crap cabs, lousy mass transit, homogenization galore, and zeee-rooow nightlife.
If anyone know where New York has gone, please post accordingly.
Thank you.