Jan 7

Jan 7 Meera Joshi resigns as head of New York's Taxi Commission

Meera Joshi, CEO and Chair of the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission, will resign from her post in March 2018. Commissioner Joshi's tenure was marked by the protection and enhancement of driver earnings, citywide access to For-Hire services for persons with disabilities and a 50% reduction of fatalities in crashes involving taxis and For-Hire vehicles in 2017.

New York City was the first U.S. city to cap ride services like Uber and Lyft in an effort to reduce traffic congestion and help the local taxi businesses.

UPDATE April 14, 2021.

President Joe Biden today appointed Meera Joshi as the Deputy Administrator and senior official of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on January 20, 2021. She is an attorney with over 16 years of experience leading government oversight agencies. She was Chair and CEO of the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission, the nation’s largest for-hire transportation regulator where she spearheaded novel Vision Zero campaigns using data tools to keep high risk drivers and unsafe vehicles off the road. She also led landmark policy, including establishing robust open transportation data standards for app based providers; enacting the nation’s first for-hire driver pay protection program and providing broad access to for-hire transportation for passengers who use wheelchairs.

Prior to transportation regulation, Joshi was the Inspector General for New York City’s Department of Corrections, responsible for investigation of corruption and criminality at all levels of New York City’s jail operations and the First Deputy Executive Director of New York City’s Civilian Complaint Review Board, leading investigations of police misconduct.

In addition to her government positions, Joshi served as General Manager for the New York Office of Sam Schwartz Transportation Consultants, and was a visiting scholar at New York University’s Rudin Center for Transportation Policy. Joshi was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She holds a B.A. and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.

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