NYC Cabbies Say Mayor’s Plan May Slow City’s Famed Speed
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New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to slow the pace of life on city streets to 25 miles per hour wasn’t an issue for one cabbie mired among the brake lights of traffic-clogged Manhattan.
“Now I’m driving 18 miles per hour,” Mohamed Quader, a 45-year-old from Bangladesh, said yesterday from behind the wheel of his yellow taxi amid a tangle of cars, double-parked delivery trucks and cyclists cruising the bike lane. “Every avenue is like this.”