Green Cab's in New York City... I don't think

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Yesterday it was announced that New York City was receiving a test run on 18,000 cabs on the Upper East side and the other Boroughs. The kicker is that it is NOT a yellow cab!!!..Nope in fact it's a green colored "bile-like" color.

Yellow cabs have become an iconic image for the city of New York since they were introduced. Everyone around the world knows that a yellow cab means New York City.  Yellow cabs are as iconic as the saying "the Green Apple". Maybe we should change that to the "Crab Apple or the Yellow Pear".

This CAN'T happen because this will  rip at the very fabric of the identity of the city. And  in these delicate financial times the "yellow cab" is the one thing we count on to make us feel special... the one thing we can always count on at 3'oclock  in the morning on a rainy summer night.

The mayor's office claims  that the green is preferable because you can see it from far away. From far away? Have you ever tried to get a cab in the city? If you see a cab from far away trust me it's already taken.There is a customer on every block! In midtown in rush hours the savvy cab takers set a "cabbie Trap"  These well healed travelers.stand in front of hotels with dragging small suitcases with wheels so that the cabbie mistakenly believes that this is a airport call and rushes to pick up the ride.  By the time the customer gets in the cabby has no choice but to take them to their destination. Cabs can be very hard to find. No need to see one a mile away. I wonder... are these glow in the dark cabs?

I think that the approach to introducing this green cab was like an ambush. I never hear a word about it then ca-boom!! All of a sudden we have a fleet of 18,000 cabs/ I wonder how much that cost? Is it really the right financial climate to introduce a pilot project?

 If the cabs don't work out we have paid an undisclosed amount for them. Why not test with 500 or 250 green cabs?

Unfortunately, it sounds to me like the deal is done. We are getting green cabs and we aren't going to have much say about it.  Sneaky right?.

When I came to NYC we had the sedans for years/ They were lovely, comfortable, rode well.(see image at top). Then, over the past five years we've been getting all these hybrids, that look like boxes like the cabs from an Arnold Schwarzenegger sci-fi movie that I cannot recall just now. ( he lives in some world in which air is bought and sold like electricity) These hybrids are loud, uncomfortable for anyone over 6 ft, with what I swear are missing shocks.(see above paragraph)

New Yorkers get on this quick before our fate is sealed. Give your input!!!