Wonder what New York might look like if the city put serving taxi customers ahead of carving out markets for taxi providers?

It might look like Portsmouth, NH.

This week the taxi commission for this New Hampshire city voted unanimously to ask the City Council to eliminate all taxi medallions and end city inspections and the regulation of taxi fares.

To top it off, the commissioners are asking the City Council to put themselves out of business by abolishing the Taxi Commission itself.

Granted, Portsmouth (pop. 21,000) can hardly be compared to a mega-metropolis like New York City.

For one thing, New York is far more dependent on revenue from taxi medallion sales, at least at the moment. And since the arrival of Uber, prices for a yellow-cab medallion have fallen from $1.2 million in 2013 to $873,000 last October.

Portsmouth is also more concerned with having cars available at off-peak hours, when the supply of traditional cabs wanes.

But the market works in Portsmouth the same way it works in Gotham: More competition is better for consumers.

So maybe the de Blasio administration could take a lesson from Portsmouth. Instead of of spending all its energies looking for ways to make the new competition play by old and outdated rules, simply level the playing field for all.

“I guess it’s going to come down to what consumers want to do,” said Lt. Chris Cummings, the Portsmouth Police Department’s liaison with the Taxi Commission.

Which is exactly how it should be.