New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is losing his battle against ride-hail giants Uber and Lyft.

The recent release of a traffic study found that ride-hailing services were not significantly adding to congestion in the Big Apple.

Last year, he city tried to push through legislation limiting the ride-hail industries but settled for the traffic study.

The $2 million study from McKinsey & Company found that while car-hail apps are “a contributor to overall congestion,” they “did not drive the recent increase in congestion in the central business district.” The report also states that, “ride-sharing may have inadvertent, detrimental impacts on congestion… but ride-sharing could have a substantial impact in reducing vehicle miles traveled … if many consumers change from other car-based modes and few riders switch from public transit.”

While the study found that “average vehicle speeds have fallen nearly 10 percent over the last two years,” in Manhattan’s central business district, it said car-hail apps didn't play a role in that.

Rather, the growth in car-hail apps mostly supplanted yellow taxi trips, according to the report.

"I don't know what hours they did this study," said Bhairavi Desai, who runs the New York Taxi Workers Alliance. "Was this not during rush hour or something?"

With the study failing to indict the ride-hail companies for adding to congestion, the city rolled out a number of new proposals that include creating health care options for drivers, increasing pricing transparency for customers, and allowing licensed ride-hailing apps to contract with other car bases and taxi medallion owners. The package as a whole is a dramatic pivot: The city has stopped trying to slow Uber down, and now wants to get everyone else up to speed.

“The Council is proud to take the lead on reforming the taxi and for-hire vehicles in New York City while also ensuring continued innovation and convenience,” said Melissa Mark-Viverito. “This legislation will work to protect consumers and create more accessibility while improving working conditions for drivers.”

Josh Mohrer, Uber’s general manager for New York, thanked the mayor and city council for their efforts to improve the city’s commercial car business. “We are supportive of several of the proposals presented today, especially efforts to empower drivers by giving them more freedom to partner with companies across the industry,” Mohrer said. “We will be reviewing the policy ideas and hope to work with the de Blasio administration and the City Council on implementing many of them.”

What remains unclear is how some of the proposed measures will be implemented. One of the council’s proposals would “require the Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) to directly administer a health care services program.” It’s similarly uncertain how the council plans to accelerate the TLC’s driver licensing process, which can take weeks or months.

What is clear is that ride-hail companies are making serious inroads to the taxi industry in the city.

In October 2015, yellow taxis averaged 397,000 trips a day, according to the TLC. Uber averaged 141,000 and Lyft averaged 14,000. Some traditional car services, like Carmel or Dial 7, averaged between 2,000 and 5,000 trips a day.

In 2013, there were 47,000 for-hire vehicles in New York. By the end of 2015, there were 74,000.

“It’s ludicrous to think that the new vehicles haven’t added congestion,” Desai said.

David Mack, a spokesman for Lyft, and Matthew Wing, a spokesman for Uber, independently applauded the city’s thoughtfulness.

“We appreciate the thoughtful process Mayor de Blasio and his administration have engaged in over the last several months to improve the commercial car industry," Wing said.

“We applaud the thoughtful approach to making the regulatory process work better for riders and drivers alike," Mack said.