replace their asses.
Posted on 08/20/2016 10:23:32 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Hail a yellow taxi in New York City, and there is a good chance the driver is from another country. Passengers are regularly exposed to a range of languages that span the globe, from Spanish to Bengali to Urdu.
It can be charming, but also maddening for riders who feel that drivers do not understand where they want to go. Don’t you have to speak English, some wonder, to drive a taxi here?
As of Friday, the answer is no.
That is when new rules went into effect eliminating the requirement that taxi drivers take an English proficiency exam. Now, the test for a taxi license is available in several languages, to accommodate non-English speakers.
The sponsors of a City Council bill to remove the English test argued that the requirement was a barrier for would-be drivers from immigrant communities who were looking for work. But the shift has prompted concerns over whether communication between taxi drivers and passengers could become even more difficult.
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Whatever happened to the stereotypical New York cabbie who had a Brooklyn accent????
Why is it that, entire sectors of our economy are dominated by people not born in this country?
How is it that cab drivers in major cities, are almost to a man, not born in this country?
How is it that, in many major cities, hotel maids are Hispanic??
How is it that, in many places, independent hotels and motels are run by Indians from India??
How is it that, in some places around the country, fast food workers are of any age and not born in this country, as opposed to the stereotypical teens and young adults who used to do this type of work?
While you can’t speak to the immigration status of any of these people within a post on a site like this, you wonder, how is it that native born Americans just don’t do certain types of jobs anymore???
Just more evidence of liberal madness.
Eff NYC, now scratched off conference, client and tourism list.
RE: “Several of the immigrant cabdrivers quoted in the article think that there should continue to be an English requirement, for the obvious reason that cabdrivers need to communicate with customers”
complete insanity
Hey, what could go wrong? [/s]
The “Patel hotel” or “Patel motel” phenomenon, as it is popularly known,[7] has made a major impact on the American hospitality industry.
A sizable number of Indian immigrants to the United States came in the 1960s and 1970s. Many of them worked in blue collar jobs and saved up to buy undervalued or dilapidated properties, turning them into businesses.[8] As many as 50% of mid-sized motels and hotel properties all over the US are owned by people of Indian origin. Of this nearly one-third have the surname Patel - a popular one among Indian Gujaratis (those that came from Gujarat). FROM WIKI
The answer is fairly simple - the family sticks together and help each other.
Another "Faculty Lounge" decision I'll bet.
What makes our nation a nation at all?
Now we don’t even have an official language, to this cab company (city or whoever runs it).
We are seeing every single common bond broken.
This nation is being gutted.
Same goes for truck drivers. There used to be a requirement that a Commercial Drivers License holder could read, speak, and comprehend English. Not any more.
True story - I was in the scale house on Rt 301 in Maryland, just over the Delaware state line. When you enter the scale house you cross a preliminary set of scales that determine whether or not you have to go onto the full-length platform scale. A driver got the sign to pull onto the platform scale. He stopped his truck in the middle of the lot, got out and brought his paperwork into the scale house. He had no idea what to do, could not speak English, yet he somehow made it from California to Maryland. Through a bunch of hand signals and pointing he finally understood what he needed to do.
I asked the officer on duty if the requirement to read, speak, and comprehend English no longer applied. He told me they used to be able to yank the license of anyone driving a commercial motor vehicle that could not follow directions in English. Now they people just hire an interpreter and a lawyer. The judge doesn’t want to appear racist so they let them off if the driver promises to learn English. They never see them or check up on their progress.
I has an UBER driver in LA Wednesday who had difficulty with english. We waited in a long line on an on-ramp while cars zoomed by us in the diamond lane on the left. I pointed out that we were diamond lane eligible but I could not get through to the UBER guy, so we waited.
Ever take a cab in DC? You’d better bring the tourist map with you and the written address to show to the non-english speaking cab driver. And then they will still act all confused about where they are supposed to go - and drive you around in circles about two blocks from your destination. If you are a first time visitor to that area (including the Arlington area) do yourself a giant favor and study your maps, have the addresses written down, and cross your fingers.
I don’t see this as a big deal. English proficiency among cab drivers has become increasingly irrelevant in a city where more and more of the people who ride the cabs don’t speak English as their first language. You’re probably more likely to hear English spoken in Hong Kong than in New York City.
Agreed.
How is it the corrupt elites in government have enabled the exportation of our jobs to China, etc and the importation of poverty and cheap labor we don’t need from 3rd world countries?
How is it these same elites bailed out and rewarded the incompetent Wall St crowd with the tax money & debt of working Americans that are being screwed.
We need to take our country back from the malfeasance of cronies and thieves.
replace their asses.
Because it's a lousy, low-paying (unless you are an amazing hustler)dangerous job in which there are always always openings.
No problem self driving cars they are all gone.
So if someone who only speaks English (GASP!) waves a taxi and wants to go to a named building (say, the Chyrsler Building) but doesn’t know the street and number, they’re out of luck?
What happens when a bilingual Japanese (Japanese and English) comes to NY and wants to go to Manhattan from JFK, but wants to go over a bridge and not through a tunnell?
So many problems with this. But then again, that’s probably the plan.
(Counterjihad Panels at CPAC) 2016....listen to all...Sharia Law cannot exist without Islam...Sharia is Islam! . Sharia is being pushed by not just Muslim politicians, Imams but many politicians who willingly submit...This is your country and your security is being threatened for Sharia. (this evil)
Wonder if anyone voting for this got anything from Uber?
The balkanization has been well underway, for decades.
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