Southern Nevada taxi drivers made their case for reducing the number of cabs on valley streets in a new venue. But they got a familiar answer when the Nevada Transportation Authority rejected an appeal from two unions of last year’s Nevada Taxicab Authority approval of permanent cab allocations.
The three-member Transportation Authority, which hears appeals of Taxicab Authority rulings, voted 3-0 to reject the appeal, based on its determination that the allocation request process was not flawed.
Transportation Authority Chairman Andrew Mackay said before the vote that the board was bound by statute to consider whether there were errors in the process and not whether they believed the Taxicab Authority’s decision was wrong.
The vote came after 75 minutes of public comments, mostly by drivers pleading with the board to throw out the Taxicab Authority’s decision in August to add six cabs per company — one a month from September through February — and to expand the hours of some time-restricted cabs.