An Indian-origin woman has been nominated by New York Mayor Bill de Blasio to lead the city’s crucial taxi and limousine agency, which regulates the city’s expansive network of yellow and green taxis and livery cabs.
Meera Joshi, nominated to serve as Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer of the New York City Taxi and Limousine
Commission (TLC), had most recently served as the agency’s General Counsel under former mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration
Her nomination has to be approved by the City Council.
A University of Pennsylvania alumnus,Meera Joshi has worked in the city government for more than a decade.
As General Counsel at the TLC, she supported the regulation of more than 160,000 licensees and personally oversaw a portfolio of initiatives that have brought new cab services to New Yorkers.
She has also prosecuted financial injustices against victimised taxi drivers. Joshi was also instrumental in the city’s commitment to 50 % wheelchair accessibility by 2020, and the requirement that all taxicabs be crash-tested to federal standards by the end of 2014.
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