Your eyes aren’t playing tricks on you – those apple green taxis you will soon be seeing on the street are real, says WNYC.
According to the article, the color was chosen for the new boro taxis, livery cabs with medallions that will allow them to pick up street hails in the outer boroughs, as well as above 96th Street in Manhattan.
On the new borough taxi color, Mayor Michael Bloomberg told WNYC, “It’s easy on the eyes and easy to pick out from a distance in traffic and that's going to help customers.”
Starting May 29, the city will sell to livery cab owners for the right to pick up street hails.
But yellow cab owners are furious at the new plan, after most have shelled out big bucks for their medallions, which has given them the exclusive right to legally pick up street hails.
The president of the Metropolitan Taxicab Board of Trade, which represents yellow cabs, called the plan “unconstitutional, irresponsible and unconscionable.”
NYC HAS INTRODUCED THERE NEW GREEN CAR IN JULY HERE AT MAACO IN LINDEN NJ, WE ARE INTRODUCING A PROGRAM FOR ALL LIVERY COMPANYS. WE WILL PAINT 5 CARS AT REG PRICE PAINT LEVEL OF YOUR CHOICE, SINCE WE HAVE 6 LEVELS TO CHOOSE FROM THE 6TH CAR WE WILL PAINT FREE ALL MUST BE AT SAME LEVEL OR HIGHER.
Does he realize that saying something as ridiculous as that makes us doubt the sense of anything else he might say? Sort of like listening to a republican.
Some 10 million American men—fully 7 percent of the male population—either cannot distinguish or even see red and green / differently from most people. This is the commonest form of color blindness, but it affects only .4 percent of women.