NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — The city’s Taxi and Limousine Commission approved new rules regulating app-based for-hire car services at a meeting Wednesday.
The rules would limit the amount of time drivers in Manhattan below 96th Street could drive without passengers.
The measures passed over some opposition from some drivers.
Wheelchair-accessible vehicles would not have to observe the rules.
The commission also voted to extend the previously voted-upon cap on for-hire drivers in the city.
The TLC hopes the measures will ease congestion in the busiest parts of Manhattan.
City data found that 41 percent of the time app-based drivers spend below 96th street in Manhattan is without passengers and the TLC hopes to bring that number down to 36 percent by February 2020.