Perhaps the biggest threat to the traditional yellow taxi industry doesn’t come from the newly emerging competition, but from the simple fact that riders are searching for comfortable and convenient rides. Passengers are going to gravitate towards the service that fits these needs and offers them the ability to be …
Evgeny “Gene” Freidman is the man who BusinessWeek called “The Taxi King” and is the owner and operator of the largest Taxi fleet in New York City. But his kingdom has recently begun to fall. According to court documents, in the morning on August 24, 2016, City Marshals evicted Taxi Club Management, one …
A federal appeals court has ruled that New York City can track taxi drivers by using their installed GPS system and this tracking device does not violate the Fourth Amendment rights of unreasonable search and seizure. In a 2-1 decision, the Second Circuit held that taxi drivers do not have …
We might think of the taxicab as a commonplace occurrence, however the iconic yellow cab hasn’t been around forever. Over 109 years ago, businessman Harry N. Allen invented the metered fare idea after he was hit with a five dollar cost for a quarter mile ride in a horse-drawn carriage.
Memorial day is a good day to look at an old video of Checkers. This is from the Good Morning America broadcast of July 12, 1994.
After a lawsuit filed by yellow taxi drivers, the plan to increase the wheelchair accessibility of New York City’s taxi fleet by 2020 is now on hold. New rules requiring wheelchair accessible taxicabs within the fleet came about after the city settled a suit that charged it was in violation …
