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It is great -- great idea. >> company officials believe the venture will fill a void in the opportunities for women behind the wheel but also in the passenger seat. reporting from midtown, tim fleisher, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> new york cab drivers can be gut wrenching, nonetheless. but if you were to get into a cab had a woman behind the wheel would you feel comfortable? >> absolutely. i think i will download the app. i need a ride home. >> you are getting out of here early, i see.z?v.t [ honking ] >> will you take me? you can take me. >> yeah. >> you know the back roads. >> the secret p...

Crumbling pul las xi sky way, to be clear, it is a new jersey roadway. totally outside the purview of the bistate port authority of new york and new jersey. but according to "the new york times", lawyers for the christie administration relentlessly lobbied to pay for $1.8 billion with port authority funds anyway. their justification, classifying it as an access road to the lincoln tunnel. the tunnel being something that does actually operate under the port authority. there's only one problem and new jersey star leathaej ledger wen fuel local cab drivers for the explanation of said problem. >> ...

Like a drunk all the time. >> i look at the marion barry that was and could have been more of. i quit drinking 20 years ago. you didn't want to quit. >> i'm not going to dwell on that. i'm going to dwell on what is happening to my life and the struggles i had to come out of poverty. >> okay. >> first in my family to go to college, first in my family to get a master's degree. first in my family to get three years working my ph.d. at a predominantly white university of tennessee. came through the civil rights movement. put my life on the line for that. god blessed me not to be hurt or injured. c...

Want different options. i'm on board with the with customer, not so much the industry. look, i think this technology is here to stay. these choices are inevitable and good because they give our customers, residents, visitors different choices, different mobility choices. i think it is good for us. i think it's the way to go. >> mayor, what do you tell the cab drivers out there that are saying, hey, the competition don't have to operate under the same conditions that we do. you can't let these services in because we now have to adhere to a certain system. >> i think we have to change the system...

Be frank. we are a tourist town with a lot of tourists. >> great town. >> that's one of the main complaints we have is that our cabs -- you know are, when you get out of the airport you see our taxicab industry. it's not complementary. >> yeah. >> we need the comp technician. i need to level the playing field. >> right. >> they have -- >> how do you do that? how do you level the playing field for cab drivers around the country? i see what you're saying. all over different cities in this great country. how do you get cabs to have the same level of service? >> number one, the cabs themselves can...