Metro

3 group ride taxi stands end after 7 months

New Yorkers are willing to share apartments and subway seats — but apparently not cabs.

The city’s taxi commission will remove three “group ride” stands from the Upper East Side, Upper West Side, and Midtown after the seven-month experiment attracted almost no riders, officials said today.

“They simply have not worked,” Taxi and Limousone Commissioner chief David Yassky said at the board’s monthly meeting.

He said he wasn’t sure if “there’s not enough common routes from there to work or if it’s a chicken-and-egg problem, where passengers will only go there is there are taxis and taxis will only go there fi there are passengers — and no one will act first,” he added.

The idea was to mimic the “Wall Street Run” — a cab share that happened on its own. For years, the city’s finance power-brokers lined up at 79th and York and split cabs down to the financial district, sharing the fare.

Signs were installed at East 72nd Street and Third Avenue, West 73rd Street and Columbus Avenue and 57th Street and Eighth Avenue offering the reduced-fare rides.

It was $3 per person for the 57th Street location, and $4 per person on the Upper East and West sides.

Officials will soon remove the three signs that advertised the program.

Two group stands are still going strong though.

One at the Port Authority bus terminal handles about 20 share rides a day, and the share livery stand at the St. George Ferry Terminal on Staten Island handles 275 rides per day. Both of those will remain.