Earlier this week, the Awl posited how Uber might metastasize into mass transit and potentially…
“Asked if he would prefer a driver who used a GPS unit or one with a good grasp of city geography, Mr. Wissak looked at several cabs sitting idle in his lot and said, ‘Right now, I’d take them both.’”
In New York City, the environments of taxi and livery cabs are circumscribed in fairly specific ways by the Taxi and…
by Anne Helen Petersen
The researchers found that Manhattan’s 13,000 taxis made 470,000 trips a day. Their average speed was 10 to 11 m.p.h., carrying an average of 1.4 passengers per trip with an average wait time of five minutes.
In comparison, the report said, it is possible for a…
Testimony from Ashwini Chhabra, Deputy Commissioner of Policy & Planning at NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission, in 2012, on the question of hailing taxicabs with apps like Uber:
“It is not the rightful function of government to…
by Michael Bertin
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It’s part of the reason CBS paid $10.8 billion for 14 years worth of broadcast rights to the NCAA tournament.
“It is one of the great ripoffs of the public any place I’ve ever seen” Mayor Bloomberg on the structure of the NYC taxi industry.
— Dana Rubinstein (@danarubinstein) December 14, 2012
by Trevor Butterworth
Mmm hmm.
