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• New York’s Cabbies Like Credit Cards? Go Figure

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Like a growing number of city taxi riders, Susan Barnett used a credit card on Tuesday when she paid her driver, Janusz Kuznia.
  4 days ago

• 10 Cool and Unusual Taxis

  
  Technology you can trust here... — Authority: 154
  Collection of the world’s most unusual taxicabs that will take you to your desired destination in style. Maybach Taxi Cool luxury Maybach taxicab spotted in Moscow, Russia. [link] Porsche Taxi For the times when you need to get somewhere really fast. [link] Hummer Taxi Hummer yellow taxi spotted in Houston, ...
  1 week ago

• The Roots back Christopher Cross & Michael McDonald on Jimmy Fallon

  
  My Chemical Toilet — Authority: 414
  Aw, lookathis. Christopher Cross, Michael McDonald & The Roots. In sailors’ caps. With two drummers. Doing 70s taxicab classic, “Ride Like The Wind”. S’nice!  
  1 week ago

• With Payroll Tax, Feeling the Effects of an M.T.A. Bailout Plan

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  The burden of a $1.9 billion rescue package for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is now being felt by taxi riders, motorists, business owners — even private schools.
  1 week ago

• Photo of the Day: The Big Shiny Yellow Checker

  
  Et Cetera: Publick and Privat Curiosities — Authority: 129
  Photo of the Day: The Big Shiny Yellow Checker Photography by:  Joseph O. Holmes, NYC Late last night I heard the screen door slam, And a big yellow taxi took away my old man, Dont it always seem to go, That you dont know what you’ve got, ‘Til its gone? They paved paradise, And put up a parking lot. ...
  2 weeks ago

• My First Hail Using Cabulous

  
  kfarr — Authority: 98
  I’ve been advising the team working on Cabulous , a new mobile location-enabled app that makes it easier for cabbies to advertise their locations — and for passengers to find them. I drove last Saturday and helped with an early beta test. John taped the first successful Cabulous hail: A few weeks back, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Graham Slams Feds At Community Meeting; Claims His Remarks Were ‘Off The Record’

  
  City Desk — Authority: 699
  Councilmember Jim Graham has generally kept quiet on the taxicab bribery case that has so far snared his right-hand-man Ted Loza . But at a recent Kalorama Citizens Association meeting, Graham apparently couldn’t help himself. According to sources in attendance, he blasted federal law enforcement for busting ...
  2 weeks ago

• Was Leon Swain Jr. Too Good At Playing The Criminal?

  
  City Desk — Authority: 699
  In the past few weeks, City Desk and everyone else praised Taxicab Commission Chairperson Leon Swain Jr. for his starring role as a police informant. The audio evidence is pretty clear that Swain is one talented actor. David Simon needs to put Swain in his next series. Swain performed on hours and hours of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Meet The Other Defendants In the Taxi Bribery Scandal

  
  City Desk — Authority: 699
  By now, District residents have been well versed on the heroics of Taxicab Commission Chairperson Leon Swain Jr. in the bribery scandal, and the alleged failings of Jim Graham’s Chief of Staff Ted Loza . But the majority of the defendants aren’t well known. They are parking lot attendants, gas station ...
  3 weeks ago

• Phoenix and its Hybrid Taxi Fleets

  
  Eco-Friendly Tips — Authority: 475
  A taxicab company in Phoenix, Arizona becomes the second cab service in the United States to operate and drive passengers around the city with the use of a hybrid car for all of their services. The company, aptly named, Clean Air Cabs, is composed of about 26 units of Toyota Hybrids. The company plans to [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Accused Taxi Briber Will Stay in Jail, Judge Says

  
  City Desk — Authority: 699
  Yitbarek Syume , alleged leader of a bribery scheme targeting the D.C. Taxicab Commission, has been ordered to remain in jail pending trial, Jason Cherkis reports from the federal courthouse. U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman ’s ruling this afternoon overturns an Oct. 9 decision by Magistrate Judge Deborah ...
  3 weeks ago

• Graham Withdraws From Taxi Oversight

  
  City Desk — Authority: 699
  Ward 1 Councilmember Jim Graham has relinquished his oversight of the District’s taxicab industry. The move comes more than a month after his chief of staff, Ted Loza , was collared in a bribery sting where taxi-related interests are alleged to have paid Loza to influence cab legislation. Graham has had the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Taxi Commission Seeks New Ways to Enforce Cellphone Ban for Cabbies

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Under proposed rules, drivers would not be allowed to wear hands-free headsets, even if they are not in use.
  3 weeks ago

• 2010 Nissan NV200 Vanette Taxi Announced for Tokyo Auto Show

  
  GotBroken.Com — Authority: 139
  Nissan has released a taxi version of the popular Nissan Vanette, the commercial taxi meeting Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport’s universal-design taxi concept. Based on the all-new Nissan Vanette, which was introduced in May, the NV200 Vanette Taxi is a new breed of commuter, featuring a ...
  4 weeks ago

• Crazy Tesla Taxi Takes Customers On Delusional Journey [Custom Cars]

  
  Jalopnik — Authority: 736
  A New York taxi company owner makes enough money to not only live near Monaco but also to buy a Tesla Roadster . More shocking? He wants his neighbors to actually know how he made his money with a taxi-liveried Tesla. The anonymous exploiter of lost tourists and underpaid immigrants alike apparently owns a fleet ...
  4 weeks ago

• Back in the Saddle: Driving Fleet Weekend

  
  kfarr — Authority: 98
  San Francisco Taxi with Photoshopped Blue Angels in Sky It’s been a long time since I’ve taxi blogged. I drove last Saturday for the first time in a few weeks. I’ve been working dispatch phones and doing VidSF work instead of driving over the past few weeks. Novel-length post after the break. I love ...
  4 weeks ago

• National Briefing | Washington: Bribery Charges in Cab Industry

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Thirty-nine people connected with the District of Columbia taxicab industry have been indicted on bribery charges.
  5 weeks ago

• Breaking: Read the Taxicab Indictments; Suspects Tried To Bribe Leon Swain Jr.

  
  City Desk — Authority: 699
  Today, 27 individuals have been arrested in connection with the growing taxicab bribery scandal. Moments ago, two indictments were unsealed. You can read them here and here . Nearly 30 individuals have been indicted in federal court. One indictment concerns three individuals: Yitbarek Syume , Berhane Leghese , ...
  5 weeks ago

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