Epstein asks TLC about street enforcement operations
Epstein turns to TLC and asks about its street operations enforcement. Goldapper says TLC targets unlicensed for-hire operations across all five boroughs and airports, focusing on hotspots, but says regular enforcement against bad actors is difficult citywide.
Just to turn our attention to TLC.
So can you talk about your street operations enforcement under TLC licensing?
And so we understand what you're actually doing on the street.
Because we hear from DCWP that basically they have no street-facing operation.
They rely on NYPD, but you do have a street-facing operation, right?
Thank you, Chair.
We do.
We target unlicensed for hire operations.
with respect to taxis and for hire vehicles across all five boroughs that include as well as airports.
There are major hotspots in, like I said, each of the boroughs, shopping centers, the major transportation hubs.
It's a large city to cover, and we do our best to hit that.
But one of the big pieces is that for effective unlicensed for higher activity enforcement, you have to hit
the same bad actors with such regularity that it becomes cost prohibitive for them to continue to operate.
And that's something that is, it's difficult to cover all five boroughs.