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Uber and Lyft will have to increase the minimum pay rates for drivers in New York City by the end of the year, Engadget reports. The fare increase comes amid a driver shortage post-pandemic, in large part due to rising operational costs. The city’s Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) voted to increase the per-minute rates […]
Uber, Lyft to pay NYC drivers more by end of year by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch
New York City’s Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) has voted to increase the minimum pay rates for Uber and Lyft drivers. Per-minute rates are going up by 7.4 percent and per-mile rates by 24 percent. In practical terms, that means a trip of 7.5 miles that takes 30 minutes will earn a driver at least $27.15 — an increase of more than $2.50 compared with current rates.
The commission also agreed to increase yellow and green cab fares (for the first time since 2012) by 23 percent. The new rates are scheduled to go into effect by the end of the year.
The Uber and Lyft pay bump is in addition to a 5.3 percent increase drivers received earlier this year, the TLC confirmed to Engadget. Drivers sought higher pay amid higher inflation rates and increased operational costs.
Uber and Lyft drivers will receive another rate bump in March. The increase will be “based on inflation comparing December 2022 to September 2022,” the New York Taxi Workers Alliance (NYTWA) said in a statement. The union said this was part one of a drive to ensure drivers receive at least $25 per hour in take-home pay, after expenses. “We’re going to take the momentum of this driver raise which comes despite company opposition and after a long delay, and use it to power our fight for a job with dignified incomes, job security and retirement,” NYTWA executive director Bhairavi Desai said.
“Raising taxi fare rates and minimum pay for high-volume drivers is the right thing to do for our city,” TLC commissioner David Do said. “This is the first taxi fare increase in ten years, and these raises will help offset increased operating expenses and the cost of living for TLC-licensed drivers. We are confident that today’s unanimous commission vote will keep our taxi and [For-Hire Vehicle] fleets sustainable and ready to serve New Yorkers.”
The next season of American Horror Story, subtitled New York City, has released a new teaser ahead of its premiere next week. Titled “Sanguine,” the teaser is heavy with imagery of blood, bondage and needles, though stays coy on any new details about the season.
The 11th season of AHS is set in New York City, telling one story across two timelines. With the teaser’s focus on themes of blood and kink, many have guessed that AHS: NYC might be focused on the AIDS crisis of the 1980s.
Running for over a decade now, American Horror Story is an anthology TV show with a regular rotation of cast members, each season exploring new horrors both fantastical and realistic. The new season features a number of returning AHS cast members, including Billie Lourd, Isaac Cole Powell, Zachary Quinto, Sandra Bernhard, and Patti LuPone, as well as newcomers Joe Mantello, Russell Tovey, and Charlie Carver.
There’s a moment relatively early on in Elden Ring where you have the chance to stumble upon an elevator which, if you decide to hop on it, will take you on what feels like a journey to the center of the earth. The ride is minutes long. The further you get, the more it starts to feel like you probably made a mistake–especially as the elevator shaft opens up to reveal a whole night sky and sprawling ruins in the distance. It’s beautiful. It’s terrifying. If you’re anything like me, you probably chanced upon this part of the game on your first day with it and were immediately consumed with the feeling of “I shouldn’t be here, I did something wrong.”
But that’s the beauty of a game like Elden Ring. Even if your suspicions are “confirmed” by the video game logic of running head-long into a monster that can kill you just by looking at you wrong, the game never actually forces you to stop or turn around. You’ve got a horse you can summon pretty much anywhere, and there’s ample space to maneuver or simply to run. You can just keep going, even though you know, absolutely, that you took a wrong turn somewhere. It feels like you’re getting away with something, which makes the next few subsequent discoveries hit even harder because that minutes-long elevator ride was just the beginning. The ruins spiral into more ruins which spiral into more ruins which open up into ancient cities. Nothing is going to stop you. It’s a dizzying feeling of being both completely under your control and completely out of it. It is, simply put, “immersive.”