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• Puebla’s pink taxis offer women safe rides in Mexico

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 521
  The city of Puebla, 120 km east of Mexico City, has inaugurated a taxi service for women by women who drive pink cars. In Puebla the drivers undertake 160 hours of first aid and self-defense training before they can drive a pink taxi. Their passengers can preen themselves in two mirrors in the back seat and drive in ...
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• Photos Of 1932 Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, & Asia

  
  chinaSMACK — Authority: 570
  From Sina : A Female Photographer’s 1932 Around The World Tour Mrs. Mary, an old friend in New York, personally handed to me an album of photographs before her passing, a “1932 Around the World Tour” album, containing photographs recording the experiences of Mrs. Mary’s world travels during her youth, ...
  2 days ago

• Hand & foot model Christina Ambers files $10 million lawsuit

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Manhattan, Nov 22 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Hand and foot model Christina Amber who fell in love with a porter is facing discrimination at the high-end society where she lives in. The upper-crust co-operative board of a luxury Upper East Side building is trying to evict one of its high-class residents Christina Ambers for ...
  3 days ago

• Regulated, Inspected and Licensed

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 908
  Ricardo Hernandez, picking up passengers near Grand Central, started in 2000 and applied for his pedicab license this week.
  5 days ago

• Where the Streets Have Changing Names

  
  The American Lady — Authority: 119
  I lived in Prague for a couple of months in, when was it, 1993? 94? Oi, something like that.Anyhow, it was a few years after the Velvet Revolution, and things were definitely in a state of transition.And I remember this: youd get into a taxi and tell the driver the name of the street you wanted. Say, for example, ...
  5 days ago

• Taxi Taxi - iPhone game

  
  Best Iphone Info — Authority: 141
  Coming soon to iTunes AppStore Soon… Taxi! Taxi! - Fed up never getting a cab? Can’t flag one down when you want?! Well, stop complaining and see how hard commanding a fleet of taxis is! Work the shopping mall, pick up the customers, contain your road rage, and make the $$$$ to win the game! But be careful. If you ...
  1 week ago

• Mahoods Taxis

  
  Coupon News — Authority: 141
  Mahoods Taxis are the largest independently owned taxis and private hire service company in Carrickfergus. We have developed an extremely professional and slick fleet now enjoying 65 taxi drivers in total. For larger groups we also provide 3 eight seaters within our fleet. Having installed Autocab Taxi System – ...
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• What the hell kind of town is this when even Sara Underwood cant get a cab?

  
  Universal Hub - All Boston, all the time — Authority: 618
  The Channel 25 anchor/reporter learns first hand that 1:30 a.m. is not a good time for getting a cab in the Financial District.
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• 7 Simple Steps to Protect Your Mobile Phone

  
  Best New Cell Phones — Authority: 139
  Statistics tell us that around 88% or people don’t leave home these days without their mobile phones. Given that most of us rely on these ubiquitous devices every day losing one can be a disaster. Increasinglly compact and lightweight mobile phones mean that they are easily lost, misplaced or fall out of pockets. ...
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• First wheelchair-accessible taxis to hit D.C. streets

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 966
  Two taxi companies -- Yellow Cab and Royal Cab -- will put their first wheelchair-accessible vehicles into service in December, and the firms should have a total of 20 cabs that can handle wheelchairs in service by January.
  2 weeks ago

• NYC cabbies crave credit cards

  
  Second Ave. Sagas | A New York City Subway Blog — Authority: 560
  Because I got my start as a transportation policy junkie while analyzing the hybridization of New York’s taxi fleet back in college, I have a soft spot for news about the taxi industry. Earlier this week, The Times reported on cabbies’ views on credit cards two years after the city began requiring yellow cabs to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Black Taxi Entrapment Scandal

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 631
  Xujun Eberlein of the Inside-Out China blog writes about Sun Zhongjie, whose entrapment and subsequent arrest galvanized the public and the media: Sun Zhongjie was a new driver employed by a construction company in Shanghai, and October 14th was his second day at work. That night, on a work-related trip, his car ...
  2 weeks ago

• Warning to Taxi Users!

  
  TORU? DAILY PHOTO — Authority: 127
  For those of you planning on visiting Toruń or even for those who already live here...please be cautious when getting into a parked taxi. There are rogue taxis which look rather similar to the normal ones (such as Copernicus and Mercedes ). However, these ones charge much more. One of my students had to pay ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hacking the System

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 751
  Hacking is a Baltimore phenomenon that allows citizens to get cheap "illegal" rides across town. A hack indicates they want a ride by motioning their pointer finger towards the ground as they walk along the street. Inevitably a driver will stop, the two parties will negotiate a price and a ride will be given. It ...
  2 weeks ago

• #5 Paris, France: Great Bicycle City Photo Tour

  
  EcoWorldly — Authority: 565
  From bicycle lovers to lovers on bikes, bike art to art on bikes, the largest bicycle sharing program in the world to some of the smallest bikers, enjoy this bicycle city photo tour of Paris, France! Paris doesn’t have a long history as one of the best bicycle cities, but with the introduction of the largest ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cabbie Tossed 2 Guys From Taxi Because, Inevitably, They Wouldve Had Sex

  
  Queerty — Authority: 734
  So why did that NYC taxi driver Medhat Mohamed throw out a couple of gay passengers in Harlem ? Because he was concerned that, after seeing them hugging, he was going to have to watch them have sex in the backseat! CONTINUED » Permalink | 5 comments | Add to del.icio.us Tagged: medhat mohamed , NYC , ...
  2 weeks ago

• Periodic Table of Elements Taxis and Buses

  
  GEARFUSE — Authority: 666
  These awesome Periodic Table of Elements Taxis and Buses serve as mobile advertisements for the Oxford Science Park in the U.K. I wonder if one of these bad boys will go up for sale after they’re done with the marketing scheme . A ride like this would go perfect with a set of Periodic Picnic Tables . ...
  2 weeks ago

• Taxi Driver Plays Taliban With Passengers

  
  ANIMAL — Authority: 706
  A gay couple claims they were told to get out of a yellow cab after they embraced in the back seat, allegedly incensing the driver. According to one of the men, the cabby told them: “You guys have to get out of the taxi! Hugging is not allowed in here!” | NYP |
  3 weeks ago

• SEPTA strike affects students and employees alike

  
  The Temple News — Authority: 561
  The lack of public transportation caused by the SEPTA strike that began early Tuesday morning is taking its toll on the Temple community.“It’s the only way I can get to school unless I pay a taxi,” sophomore international business major Trisha Swed said. “I use it anywhere from two to six trips a day [...]
  3 weeks ago

• South Korean taxi drivers win right to watch TV in cabs, for now

  
  F-Default — Authority: 542
  You know, we’ve made plenty of jokes about the DMB mobile TV functionality found in seemingly every GPS unit released in South Korea, but it looks like taxi drivers in the country take their distractions seriously — serious enough to go to court. Continued here: South Korean taxi drivers win right to watch TV ...
  3 weeks ago

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