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New York votes to cap Uber and Lyft services

New York has become the first major American city to approve the cap on the Ride-Gay car license and to determine the minimum wage conditions for drivers.

The New York Taxi Workers Alliance has described it as a "historic victory"

This bill will affect popular app-based services like Uber and Life, who both spoke against it.

In the recent years, after increasing the number of app-based cars, yellow cab drivers and anti-mob campaigners have pressurized for regulation.

Almost 80,000 people now work in the whole city, making just 13,500 yellow cabs.

Taxi drivers performed this week in support of the bill outside the headquarters of the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC), which indicated the names and faces of six taxi drivers who took their life since December.

The campaign and union group added direct financial pressures due to the development of ride-Gay car services for driver suicides.

Bill passed on Wednesday approved the one-year moratorium on the new Ride-J vehicle license for 12 months, with the exception of wheelers accessible cars.

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It also gives TLC the power to control the minimum rates of rent, the minimum payment for drivers and a new rulebook for app companies.

This law was supported by the New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, who said that due to the crowd in the city "it will help to stop the flow of cars".

However, the Ride-Jai services have criticized the bill and argued that it would harm consumers.

Uber said in a statement: "One of the few reliable transportation options will be intimidated while doing nothing to repair Subway from the city's 12-month break or to reduce the crowd."

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Life said that this move "will bring the New Yorkians back to an era of struggle to ride, especially for the colours and communities of outer cities."

New York is the largest American market for the app to recover.

Last month a study estimated that app-based drivers now complete more than 17 million trips a month in New York.