That’s a hail of a long way to go.
An undercover operation paying college kids $10 an hour to pose as cab riders has revealed that hundreds of hacks have refused to take them to the outer boroughs in violation of Taxi and Limousine Commission regulations, authorities said yesterday.
The student agents have hailed 1,330 yellow cabs since September and been denied 361 times, according to TLC data.
A quick crunch of the numbers shows that drivers were refusing rides 27 percent of the time.
The more than 360 guilty cabbies collared in the dragnet face first-offense fines of $500.
The young undercovers were looking for lifts to out-of-the-way neighborhoods in Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx and northern Manhattan.
Brooklyn, Queens and The Bronx were the least popular destinations, with refusal rates ranging between 15 and 63 percent during various time frames, the statistics revealed.
The TLC partnered with Baruch College and other institutions in February to recruit the “secret shoppers,” as the co-ed operatives are known.