Drivers Grumble Over N.Y. City Cabs

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Drivers grumble, naturally, over New York's new cabs

 

Paul A. Eisenstein | MSNBC

 

 

Like most New York taxi drivers, Hakan Karakas has a ready opinion on everything – especially when you ask him about the “Taxi of Tomorrow.”

 

“It’s like the communists have taken over,” he laments. “This is a free market, and I should be able to choose what I drive.”

 

But the fact is Hakkan and the rest of the Big Apple’s independent and fleet taxi owners won’t have a choice. This week they’re getting a first look at the vehicles that will replace the aging Ford Crown Victoria sedans that have long served as the majority of New York’s yellow cabs.

 

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