Are Cab Drivers Complying with Cell Phone Ban?
jglsong’s Flickr On Friday the Taxi and Limousine Commission began enforcing more strict rules and penalties for cab drivers who use hands-free cell phones or any electronic device capable of making non-emergency phone calls or texting, as well as music players and GPS locators. To make drivers comply, the TLC put enforcement agents outside Grand Central Terminal to check cabs as they drove past. By yesterday morning, a total of 142 summonses had been issued by TLC agents. Fox 5, on the other hand, sent a reporter on repeated cab rides and didn’t find a single driver using an electronic device. One driver who was caught in the sting, Inderjit Parihar, vented his outrage to the Post: “I’m not even using a cellphone! It’s an iPod! They just want to bother us. I wasn’t even playing it.” Parihar was issued a summons for $200 and is required to take a “refresher course” on the rules. If he’s caught using a device while driving again, he’ll face a 30-day suspension. A third violation within
