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TAXI-SHARE PLAN FOR EA$Y RIDERS

New Yorkers are about to learn a back-seat lesson in sharing.

A sweeping taxi-system overhaul will take place this fall — including a plan to group separate passengers in cabs at deeply discounted fares, city officials revealed yesterday.

Up to 1,000 “share cabs” outfitted with LED screens and special meters will display the destinations of passengers so they can be hailed by others heading in the same direction.

As long as there is more than one passenger, everyone will get a 50 percent discount, and new smart meters will cleanly break up and display each rider’s fare on screens facing in the back seat.

“Passengers pay less money and drivers earn more money,” said Taxi and Limousine Commission chief Matthew Daus. “It’s a utopian taxi-cab experience.”

Splitting fares can happen at any time of the day and anywhere in the city.

In the other drastic change, the TLC will install six new group-ride yellow-cab stands that take up to four passengers along some of the busiest routes during the morning rush, Daus said.

Three routes, for example, will start at Grand Central Terminal, the Port Authority Bus Terminal and Penn Station, with all ending at 59th Street and Sixth Avenue. There will be a flat $3 or $4 per person, officials said. Passengers can exit the cab anywhere along the run.

Other routes will run from 57th Street and Eighth Avenue, 72nd Street and Third Avenue, and 72nd Street and Columbus Avenue to East 42nd Street and Park Avenue, also for $3 or $4.

TLC officials plan to lay out the details of the one-year pilot program at their meeting today, Daus said.

Taxi passengers hailed the new plans.

“I think it’s really good because cabs are more convenient than subways, especially with fares going up,” said Samantha Young, 20, who works in publishing.

Added East Village resident John Thatcher, “When you’re out with your friends late at night and the subways are infrequent, it’ll have an impact.”

Daus said that if the group-stand idea works well, he would consider expanding it to other areas and to times other than rush hour.

“People might be able to walk a few blocks from the club if it’s late at night and know they can find a cab there,” Daus said.

Livery riders will also get new stands along strip malls and busy business corridors.

Passengers can walk up to the booth and use a phone or talk to a TLC-contracted dispatcher or employee stationed there to get a livery cab.

Daus said the group rides will likely be rolled out first, followed by the livery stands.

The “share cabs” will come a bit later because of the new technology needed to display destinations outside the cabs and split fares inside.

Mayor Bloomberg first proposed a cab-sharing plan in January.

Some hacks were wary when they heard about the plans yesterday.

“Some customers will be confused,” said Shafiqul Alam, who has been driving a cab for 15 years. “Not a lot of people will want to share.”

Additional reporting by Tim Perone

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