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Monthly Archives: October 2010


Complaint Box | Pushy Drivers

Posted by on October 30, 2010

I am waiting, more or less patiently, in the right lane of the southbound Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive, crawling toward the exit for the Brooklyn Bridge. A maroonish blur zooms by on my left, and I take a deep breath, already guessing what I’ll see: the car, at the last …

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Cabby demands $120 after 6-year-old boy vomits in car

Posted by on October 25, 2010

UNFARE: Shamie Cuthbert cleaned up the mess — but not to the satisfaction of Nahidul Islam. A Manhattan mom became worried sick when her 6-year-old son vomited in the back seat of a taxi — and then even more upset when the crabby cabby called the cops after she refused …

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Man says cab dragged him through streets for asking to ...

Posted by on October 25, 2010

Jerrell Horton shows off the scars he received after being dragged by a taxi cab in Soho. A Wall Street worker claims he was dragged through the streets of SoHo by a yellow cab after he told the driver, “Take me to Brooklyn Jerrell Horton said he’s got scrapes and …

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Some group-ride taxi stands in Manhattan are big flops,...

Posted by on October 22, 2010

Some of the new group taxi stands ‘simply haven’t worked,’ according to head of TLC. Three new group-ride taxi stands in Manhattan have turned out to be lemons, the city’s taxi czar said yesterday. Commuters willing to share the backseat with a stranger can get a discounted fare on southbound …

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DDS Wireless Phasing Out Taxi TV Systems

Posted by yellowcabtaxi on October 20, 2010

DDS Wireless International Inc. announces today that its Taxicab Technology Enhancement Agreement with the Taxi and Limousine Commission of New York City (“TLC”) has come to the end of its term and DDS will, in cooperation with TLC, be phasing out its participation in the program. As participant since 2006, DDS …

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NYC “Taxi Cartel” Medallion Prices Soar

Posted by yellowcabtaxi on October 20, 2010

The “priciest piece of aluminum in NYC” – a taxi medallion to operate a single cab in NYC – reached a new record-high of $609,000 in August for an individual medallion (see chart above, data here), more than double the average prices in 2004. The average price for a corporate-owned taxi medallion …

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Turks: We’ll win cab race

Posted by on October 15, 2010

A Turkish car company claims to be the front-runner in the city’s competition to design the Taxi of Tomorrow. Officials at Karsan, who recently unveiled its WiFi-enabled, compressed-fuel prototype, told a Turkish newspaper they expect to be declared the winner when city officials make their official announcement by year’s end. …

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NYC’s worst cabby: ‘I did it for gas money’

Posted by on October 12, 2010

Meet the city’s greediest cabby, whose fare-scamming mantra was right out of W.C. Fields — “Never give a passenger an even break.” Santiago Rossi, the worst offender in the most infamous taxi-overcharge scheme in city history, told The Post he had good reason to rip off thousands of dollars from …

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Cabby to pay rider $2,000 in ‘bias’ flap

Posted by on October 12, 2010

A taxi driver has agreed to settle a discrimination case by paying $2,000 to a white passenger who had filed a complaint saying the hack had agreed to take him from Manhattan to Brooklyn — but then changed his mind once the rider’s black friend got in. The incident occurred …

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Commissioners Corner – October

Posted by yellowcabtaxi on October 9, 2010

I think what really leaps out at me to talk about this month is the word “new”. Lately, and this week in particular, we’ve been all about projects that are new, and never before been done. This past Monday, we returned to the former Q74 stop at 150th Street/Melbourne Avenue …

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Taxi Inspector Steals Loose Change in Cab

Posted by on October 5, 2010

Taxi and Limousine Commission inspector Mark Dubose, impounding a van in Queens, spots the loose change sitting in the vehicle’s console in footage caught by a windshield cam. For the price of a Starbucks coffee — $2.50 — a veteran taxi inspector has lost his $46,160-a-year job and is facing …

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New Yellow Cab NYC Taxi Top

Posted by yellowcabtaxi on October 2, 2010

Bluemap Design in collaboration with Show Media, Inc. and Distec GMbH present a brand new billboard box for the tops of New York City taxi cabs, that never-ending sea of yellow, black, and white on wheels. For many years there’s been a triangular plastic box up there and heck, it’s …

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