Articles tagged “taxis”

While San Francisco's poor taxi service provided an opening for services like Uber, Amsterdam and other European cities will be the real test markets for which car hailing services will become dominant.

The startups are still busy adjusting their services to fit within the city’s set taxi rules, but New Yorkers may be more willing than ever to try the new services after yesterday's taxi fare hike.

Uber has demonstrated it prefers to sin first and ask forgiveness later. But they have yet to meet a potential foe like New York City's Taxi and Limousine Commission.

The city's Taxi and Limousine Commission should be doing a better job of alerting residents of the fare increase and its reasoning to temper the flood of complaints that should be expected this week.

Environmental efficiency trumps nostalgia, in this case.

New Yorkers will have different opinions on the trade-off between quickly finding a taxi and paying higher taxi fares, but all will appreciate this video with 100 years of transit changes.

The VIP lanes will create minor benefits for the people who use them while at the same time cause major headaches for the rest of London's population.

It may not be the most consumer friendly increase, but it is the first in 8 years and helps the cab drivers a lot, especially the ones leasing those cabs, which is majority.

The D.C. taxi lobby's effort to force Uber to charge five time the taxi rate makes for the first time the car service startup's rates have looked inexpensive.