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NEW YORK, March 30 (UPI) -- Community leaders in New York have asked city officials to install lights on all taxis that would light up when their drivers use their car horns.
Driven by complaints about horn-happy drivers, members of the Lower East Side's Community Board 3 proposed the idea to the Taxi and Limousine Commission last week, the New York Post reported Sunday.
"Right now, the police actually have to see a cabdriver honk the horn to issue a ticket, and that's obviously hard," Board 3 district manager Susan Stetzer said. "This would allow the police to see exactly who honked and make it easy to enforce the rules."
The next step toward eliminating the annoyance of honking car horns is to implement a fare discount of $1 for each time a cabbie leans on the horn.
"If the driver lost a buck every time he blew the horn, that would stop him real quick," Lower East Side resident Avram Fefer told the Post of the idea.
TLC Commissioner Matthew Daus said any ideas presented to the commission would be evaluated.
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