{"id":600,"date":"2012-11-28T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T21:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkpedicabservices.com\/pedicab-blog\/?p=600"},"modified":"2024-08-29T16:44:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T20:44:26","slug":"nyc-council-oks-bill-setting-pedicab-rates-yahoo-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkpedicabservices.com\/pedicab-blog\/news\/nyc-council-oks-bill-setting-pedicab-rates-yahoo-news\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Council OKs bill setting pedicab rates &#8211; Yahoo News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The New York City Council approved new regulations for pedicabs to protect tourists from being overcharged. The legislation requires pedicab drivers to charge by the minute, with a visible timer, replacing the confusing system of charging by city blocks and adding various fees. This change comes after incidents like a Texas family being charged over $400 for a 14-block ride. The new rules, which Mayor Bloomberg has agreed to sign, aim to standardize pricing and increase transparency. The New York City Pedicab Owners&#8217; Association supports the legislation, hoping it will reduce price gouging, though they believe raising driver standards would also help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/nyc-council-oks-bill-setting-pedicab-rates-232918912.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/nyc-council-oks-bill-setting-pedicab-rates-232918912.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York City Council approved new regulations for pedicabs to protect tourists from being overcharged. The legislation requires pedicab drivers to charge by the minute, with a visible timer, replacing the confusing system of charging by city blocks and adding various fees. This change comes after incidents like a Texas family being charged over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkpedicabservices.com\/pedicab-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkpedicabservices.com\/pedicab-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkpedicabservices.com\/pedicab-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkpedicabservices.com\/pedicab-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkpedicabservices.com\/pedicab-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkpedicabservices.com\/pedicab-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkpedicabservices.com\/pedicab-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions\/603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkpedicabservices.com\/pedicab-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkpedicabservices.com\/pedicab-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkpedicabservices.com\/pedicab-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}