What was motivating the hundreds of people to prefer to stand on a taxi line at one in the morning rather than share a taxi?
HuffingtonPost.com | J. L. Greene | Posted 04.27.2012
Instead of a taxicab across town, you could take a clean, upscale Town car for the same price. But despite car services in many cities ready to take y...
Jeroen Swolfs | Posted 02.28.2012
In Havana, I interviewed Victor, a Cuban taxi driver who showed me his family pride, a 1958 Mercedes with a few very special features such as "air-conditioning."
The Huffington Post | Arin Greenwood | Posted 01.04.2012
WASHINGTON -- The CEO and co-founder the smartphone app-enabled Uber car service has a message for all those shocked by their expensive rides home on ...
Eli Lehrer | Posted 02.28.2012
Pro-consumer as they sound, the proposals to require that cabs all be painted the same color, start taking credit cards, and have better-trained drivers threaten to undermine what's arguably the best taxicab system in America.
Posted 12.29.2011
A good chunk of New York City cab riders might grumble over aggressive driving, but that doesn't mean they've been buckling up. According to the T...
AP | By LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 12.24.2011
NEW YORK -- A federal judge on Friday barred the city's Taxi and Limousine Commission from issuing permits for taxicabs unless they're accessible to p...
Posted 12.19.2011
Take note criminals -- the meter is running. Police in Florida made multiple arrests late last week after completing a four month effort using unde...
HuffingtonPost.com | J. L. Greene | Posted 12.07.2011
NASHVILLE, Tenn.-- In June 2010 the Nashville Metropolitan City Council passed legislation raising the city's minimum fee for limo and sedan rentals, ...
Posted 12.06.2011
A new video from Vice explores a unique musical style in South Africa by going straight to the source: Johannesburg cab drivers who popularized the ho...
Posted 12.25.2011
With just one email, the city's soundtrack may have one less familiar sound soon, and we're guessing New Yorkers won't be missing it. After the ch...
nytimes.com | MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM | Posted 12.12.2011
The taxicab roof light, the occasionally head-scratching system that can befuddle out-of-towners and facilitate fare refusals, may be ready for a make...
Posted 11.28.2011
Comedian Mark Malkoff likes to do social experiments over at My Damn Channel from time to time, and this week he decided to rent out a New York City t...
Brenna Cammeron | Posted 11.28.2011
It was late, I was tired, the driver said I could pay whatever I wanted. Alarm bells should have started going off then -- but they didn't.
Julia Plevin | Posted 11.15.2011
Would you believe that it's possible to be both tech savvy and old-fashioned at the same time? Yes, there's an app for everything. Even nostalgia.
Chuck Thies | Posted 11.14.2011
If you live in the Washington metropolitan area, owning an automobile is a practical adventure well worth experiencing. And it does not have to be an environmental train wreck.
Peter Mandel | Posted 10.24.2011
I could've just taken the train, but on a whim, and packing my sense of adventure, I was going from D.C. to New York by taxi cab.
Posted 10.19.2011
They say that entrepreneurial inspiration can come from just about anywhere, but for 32-year-old Chicago-based smartphone app developer Adam Saffro, i...
AP | By DEE-ANN DURBIN | Posted 09.20.2011
DETROIT -- New York City has approved the Ford Taurus sedan and Ford Transit Connect van for use as taxis for the next two years, allowing the carmake...
Bess Kalb | Posted 09.18.2011
If you've just flown across the country and it's late and your leg sockets are sore and your TylenolPM/gin situation makes the BART map look like a pretty spider, it's likely the first place you will go upon arriving in San Francisco is a taxi.
Posted 08.27.2011
One pedestrian is dead and two others were seriously injured after a taxi cab lost control and swerved into a wall near the intersection of Illinois S...
nytimes.com | MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM | Posted 07.16.2011
Eight million New Yorkers. Thirteen thousand yellow cabs. It is a ratio that can flummox a person, particularly during a rainstorm at rush hour. A ne...
Posted 05.25.2011
There's been quite a few undercover video stings recently, like when Mayor Bloomberg sent undercover investigators to a gun show in Arizona to show ho...
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Posted 05.25.2011
MANHATTAN -- A recent Manhattan College grad is in a coma after being run over by taxi driver, who allegedly refused to take him and his friends to th...
AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — More than two dozen taxi drivers have pleaded guilty after a broad probe into a fare-boosting scam that affected thousands of tourist...
Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 05.04.2012