Opinion

KOOKY KABBIES

If it’s hard hailing a cab this morning, don’t blame the Taxi and Limousine Commission.

The TLC is forcing cab owners to stick to a deal and install global-position-satellite technology and credit-card processors in their vehicles. But the New York Taxi Workers Alliance thinks it shouldn’t have to, and has pledged a two-day strike beginning at 5 a.m. today.

Not that it appears there will be a stoppage of any significance.

Support for the action among city cabbies seems limited – which makes sense. Who wants to lose a day’s pay (or two) over something as mundane, and inevitable, as a couple of electronic boxes meant to facilitate easier payment and legally required record-keeping?

Certainly Mayor Mike is standing firm.

“We made an agreement,” said Bloomberg, referring to the 2004 deal in which medallion owners got a 26 percent fare hike in exchange for agreeing to install the technology.

“Virtually all of the taxi-cab owners are complying with it. And hopefully [the others] won’t want to sit there and let all the other taxi drivers have extra fares while they earn nothing.”

Anyway, the forecast is for sunny skies – a nice couple of days for a walk.