May 4th, 2011 
admin Yesterday the city announced that the Taxi of Tomorrow will be a bulky box from Nissan or, as one commenter put it, “more like the minivan of yesterday .” Even before the announcement was made, fans of the design from Turkish automaker Karsan, the popular favorite , were grumbling (Bloomberg even reportedly had trouble showing enthusiasm for the Nissan offering at yesterday’s announcement , acknowledging it looked like a soccer mom’s cab). In response to the decision, not only did Marty Markowitz and Bill de Blasio ask Comptroller John Liu to investigate the whole process but assemblyman Micah Z. Kellner is calling on the Justice Department to see if the new vehicle violates the Americans With Disabilities Act. [ more › ]
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