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Drive To Turn NY’s Yellow Cabs Green
By Mr Ethanol | May 23, 2007
Scotsman.com:
They are almost as iconic to New York as the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building, but the famous fleet of yellow taxicabs are about to receive a makeover: they must go green by 2012.
Michael Bloomberg, the Republican mayor, announced yesterday that New York City’s 13,000 taxicabs would be required to switch to cleaner, hybrid engines within five years, as part of his plan to reduce the city’s carbon emissions by 30 per cent by 2030.
“There’s too much traffic, there’s too much stuff in the air and we’re not green enough,” Mr Bloomberg told NBC’s Today Show.
“There’s an awful lot of taxicabs on the streets of New York City obviously, so it makes a real big difference,” he said. “These cars just sit there in traffic sometimes, belching fumes; this does a lot less. It’s better for all of us.”
David Yassky, who has led the green taxi campaign from within the city council, said: “New York City’s 13,000 taxicabs will still be yellow on the outside, but soon they will be green on the inside.
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