{"id":1508,"date":"2026-08-13T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/?p=1508"},"modified":"2026-08-14T03:01:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T03:01:31","slug":"nyc-pedicab-bill-looks-to-pump-the-brakes-on-rides-that-can-cost-tourists-1k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/2026\/08\/13\/nyc-pedicab-bill-looks-to-pump-the-brakes-on-rides-that-can-cost-tourists-1k\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC pedicab bill looks to pump the brakes on rides that can cost tourists $1K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Charles Lane, Gothamist<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A coalition of business groups, community justice advocates and the licensed pedicab industry is backing new City Council legislation that would shift regulation of New York City&#8217;s pedicab industry to the Taxi and Limousine Commission, and require every pedicab to carry a city-approved meter, city-issued identification and a scannable registration code. LINK: <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/nyc-pedicab-bill-looks-to-pump-the-brakes-on-rides-that-can-cost-tourists-1k\">NYC pedicab bill<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Charles Lane, Gothamist<\/p>\n<p>A coalition of business groups, community justice advocates and the licensed pedicab industry is backing new City Council legislation that would shift regulation of New York City&#8217;s pedicab industry to the Taxi and Limousine Commission, and require every pedicab to carry a city-approved meter, city-issued identification and a scannable registration code. LINK: <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/nyc-pedicab-bill-looks-to-pump-the-brakes-on-rides-that-can-cost-tourists-1k\">NYC pedicab bill<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":365,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,19,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislation","category-parks","category-streets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/365"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1509,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions\/1509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}