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Hundreds of Uber and Lyft drivers brought traffic on the FDR Drive to a halt this morning.

The plan to snarl traffic and protest outside Gracie Mansion was hatched moments after Uber revealed Friday afternoon it would mimic Lyft’s policy of deactivating drivers when demand was low, organizers said.

Stewards for the Independent Drivers Guild, a group that represents for-hire vehicle drivers, saw Uber’s email to drivers announcing the new policy and got the word out through digital channels, including social media. Organizers posted fliers at parking lots at JFK and LaGuardia airports.

“IDG members reacted quickly and loudly wanting to organize a bold action,” a group spokesperson said. “The drivers also wanted to bring it up to the next level… and bring their message directly to the mayor as well as to Uber.”

Anger among drivers affiliated with IDG was swelling even before Uber’s announcement. Members had raised concerns before the Taxi and Limousine Commission in July that their proposed caps on vehicles and cruising would unnecessarily raise expenses by thousands of dollars.

Drivers also testified about Lyft’s manipulation of their access to its app unless cars were rented from the company and Uber’s removal of destination filters crucial drivers’ planning their workday.

On Tuesday, the first drivers started gathering at 6 a.m. to line up under the BQE and put signs on vehicles before the caravan departed at 8 a.m. They spent two excruciating hours crossing the Brooklyn Bridge before snarling traffic on the FDR en route towards Gracie Mansion. Cops booted them from the highway at East 23rd streets and they used local roads the rest of the way.

At Gracie, they honked their horns and chanted before moving on to Uber’s West Side headquarters for a rally.

“We are a sea of cars showing the strength of driver organizing!! WE WILL NOT BE IGNORED!!” the group tweeted as its protest began Monday morning.

Uber and Lyft claim the app lock-outs are a necessary response to recently-instituted TLC rules which penalize ride-hail companies whose vehicles spend too much time cruising without passengers.

But city data shows the rules have succeeded in both decreasing congestion and increasing driver wages. The number of for-hire vehicle trips has continued to grow across the city.

IDG drivers, however, blamed the companies as well as the city’s push to reduce the percent of cars without passengers to 31 percent within the year.

“I’m very upset with Uber and Lyft. I cannot drive whenever I want,” driver Johan Nijman, 64, said. “Yesterday, they didn’t let me on the platform at all. Why? Because the city wants to get at 31 percent [empty vehicles] by 2020.”

IDG reportedly receives some funding from Uber.