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Beginning Oct. 28, virtually every new non-hybrid taxi !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! to be a Nissan NV200, the Taxi of Tomorrow chosen by New York City as part of a competition in 2011. The cabs are expected to be phased in over three to five years, until nearly all of the city’s roughly 13,000 yellow cabs are the same.
The deadline has set off feverish preparations from the vehicle’s proponents, hoping to hustle the cab into service, and fleet owners who say they dread its introduction.
Some fleets have planned to retire their cabs early, stockpile new ones that are not Nissan NV200s, and begin operating them before the deadline in a bid to forestall the Taxi of Tomorrow as long as possible — recalling a popular practice when the Crown Victoria was retired.
And in the coming weeks, the city will have to defend the vehicle in separate lawsuits intended to prevent the revised program’s implementation, months after a State Supreme Court !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! the city’s initial plan, ruling that it defied the city’s administrative code.
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