New York City is putting fuel-saving hybrid cabs on city streets: cabbies are making more money and the air is getting cleaner, too.
So why not Madison, Milwaukee, Green Bay, Racine, Kenosha and so on?
Are there proposals before Common Councils? Cab Commissions? Licensing boards?
If you want to see where your forward thinking aldermen are I suggest you watch the inadvertently hilarious discussion on the council floor a couple months back on the public safety file for a local limo company asking that the city add Hybrid Toyota Prius and Highlander's to the allowable list of autos that can be licensed by the city for limo service. Instead of rubber stamping an obvious good thing that was customer driven it was sent back to committee after a long discussion. It doesn't bode well for this file:
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Title: An ordinance requiring city taxicabs to be hybrid vehicles or vehicles that have the capacity to operate with an ethanol....
Thanks.
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