Comptroller Lander and taxi workers call on TLC to toss lockout data ahead of next pay raise

City Comptroller Brad Lander joined the New York Taxi Workers Alliance Thursday, calling connected the Taxi and Limousine Commission to flip retired information they accidental was unfairly manipulated by Uber and Lyft to "cheat" drivers. The information — which tracks however agelong Uber and Lyft drivers are logged onto their respective apps and however overmuch of that clip is spent carrying passengers — is simply a cardinal constituent successful the TLC's yearly reappraisal of the city's minimum wage requirements for rideshare drivers. But drivers accidental since June some rideshare giants person been "locking them out" — keeping drivers from signing connected to enactment for hours astatine a clip — successful an effort to skew those stats, a fig known arsenic the "utilization rate."