Does NYC need more taxis? Answer: NOOOOOOOO!
This Lehrer story is just so depressing. Here's what Jayson Blair has to say about it. I've been trying to read Moynihan's original article on Tablet magazine for two days, but the website is completely fried.

I don’t know about the taxi thing. Wheel chair accessible would be nice and it’s a bit hard to believe that 2,000 taxis can crowd the streets that much. During the six or seven days that I’ve seen in NYC, I wasn’t able to learn much but I was able to see that it had a whole bunch of streets.
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