the average cabby pays seven and a full hour a day . a cab ' s terminal hours are 6 to 8 p . m . and even as the economy has fallen fully into recession , the number of cab rides each day in new york has remained relatively continuous . those are among the most colorful pieces of information about the yellow cab industry to emerges from a trove of new info collected by the mayoral and service board from rickshaws equipped with new computerized systems that record each trip and fare .
The busiest hour for a cab is 9 p.m.