A Question for Jake Dobkin

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"Anyone who puts down more than half a million in the October taxi medallion auction is nuts." (New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission) and why the Bloomberg taxi plan is plain stupid and bad for the City.update

Jen Chung, Jake Dobkin, John Del Signore and Garth Johnston at The #Gothamist- You have a problem spelled "one angry cabbie blogger" who picks up more black people on any given day than your number of black and latin@ staff.

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Jake Dobkin's Invisible Empire Gothamist, DCist,Austinist, Shanghaiist, Racist

Jake Dobkin's "Urbanist Empire (or maybe it's his Invisible Empire) " As Stevie Wonder sang: Cause where he lives they dont use colored people Living just enough, just enough for the city!

Cop cars double parked at Dunkin Donuts at @3:30 this morning at 125th and Amsterdam in Harlem

"Anyone who puts down more than half a million in the October taxi medallion auction is nuts." (New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission) and why the Bloomberg taxi plan is plain stupid and bad for the City.update

What would it mean if Eugene Weixel got 100,000 write in votes for mayor of New York City in 2013.

Why and how I became The Marshmallow Cabbie

Brooklyn Hasidic Ultra Orthodox Jews Bring Their School Buses To City Hall To Protest Against Israel

Mayoral Candidate Eugene Weixel Says Bloomberg's "vast and meteoric increase in wealth" during his administration "Must be scrutinized and if laws apply, let the chips fall where they may."

Garth Johnston, a functional illiterate, writes for The Gothamist.They should be praised for giving such a highly challenged person a chance.

Funny Money Revisited

I doubt I'll ever be one of those minor celebrity New York Taxi Drivers. Well I'm gonna be the marshmallow cabbie.

Mayor Bloomberg says he will "fucking destroy" the taxi industry.

Regarding Taxi Drivers: The idiocy and bad journalism of John Del Signore at The Gothamist

The Daily News Should Have Headlined This Item "Taxi Medallion Owners Get Bloomberg Green Light To Rip Off Taxi Drivers." (But they didn't).

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Can these taxi medallion prices keep on going up? Is it a bubble?

There is not a very high volume of trading of medallions. When they unleash five hundred new ones in one shot will the prices hold?

While they think there are too many cars they can't get enough taxis on the streets

And most of the time Manhattan looks like a parade of empty taxis and taxis pulled over by NYPD.

If you google " New York war on cars"

You'll see lots of posts denying there is any such thing going on. There surely is a war on taxis however. If you try driving a taxi for a few shifts in New York City you'll wonder how these taxi medallions could possibly fetch $975,000.00! To see how absolutely hostile the regulators are to taxi drivers just check out "Learn the lanes". It's now pretty much impossible to drop off or pick up passengers without risking a summons. Most New Yorkers hail their taxis in the crosswalk, and it's been that way for eons. Now it's more so because of the bus lanes, bike lanes, "floating parking lanes" (where it's still legal if there is an opening) and "mixing zones" where it is illegal but which cabbies must use because there is no opening in the floating parking lane. A cabbie who sees a potential passenger must in reality stop where that passenger is standing be it a bike lane , a crosswalk or a mixing zone. If he doesn't, well the cab right behind him will and the passenger will get into that one.

So then why is Bloomberg set on auctioning more medallions? Answer: He expects to net around a billion dollars. And why can these medallions fetch such astronomical prices? Answer: Because there are thousands of desperate people with hack licenses or seeking hack licenses (these are not to be confused with taxi medallions-the hack license has no resale value and is available only from the city government, the medallion is traded on the market).