Environmental advocates have gotten behind proposals to rein in New York City's app-based car services ahead of a key City Council vote.
In a Monday letter to Council Speaker Corey Johnson, leaders in four environmental advocacy groups declared their support for several measures that would tighten the city's regulatory grip on companies such as Uber and Lyft, including a proposed freeze on new for-hire vehicle licenses.
The groups — ALIGN, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance and West Harlem-based WE ACT For Environmental Justice — said the more than 80,000 for-hire vehicles added to city streets since 2013 have worsened air pollution and traffic congestion and depressed ridership on the city's ailing mass transit system.
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