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Since the increase of the taxi tariff starts in New York, not all counters have been adjusted.

It' a seldom race on the verge of dying out - a New York city cab that charges the old rates after the big cities have given cab riders permission to demand new, higher rates. Although riders were authorised to start levying higher tariffs from the beginning of Tuesday, they were not authorised to do so until the counters in their cabs had been re-calibrated.

Thus, a driver's ticket price in the coming week may well be dependent on good fortune. Taxis and Limousines Commission announced that about 70 per cent of taxis have counters that can be pre-programmed with the new tariff so that it will come into effect on Tuesday as well. It was not possible to reprogram the rest of the counters before the new tariffs came into force.

However, the Committee estimates that 75 to 90 per cent of taxi drivers already charge the new tariff. The new counters charge 50 euro cent instead of 40 euro cent for every fifth kilometre and every 60 seconds in stop or slower moving vehicles; prices rise by around 17 per cent on averages.

However, this calculation may be made more difficult by the drivers' own effort in calculating the new tariff. Tuesday some cabs still had the old fares but the counters calculated the new fares. Others seemed to have scraped off or taken off obsolete stickers at the old rates, but had not yet substituted them with the new one.

Jyemfi said he took a cab to a metering point store on Monday to update the counter and tag. He said his measuring instrument was modified, but he was informed that the workshop had run out of new stickers. His old price tag stays on his cab; he wanted to come back later in the month to try again.

Meanwhile, he said, he asked for the new tariff. Kenya Cornelio, 36, of Washington Heights, said Tuesday that she would keep an eye on how much more she had been spending in taxis before she decided whether she should go on driving in them. Aware of the new rates while awaiting a cab at the Port Authority bus station, Orel Cabral, 23, who was raised in New York and visited a family member during a journey from Pennsylvania, said he saw nothing out of the ordinary about the new 50-cent increment.