Too ManyTaxis
Taxi Industry news from the United States
Yu Mein 'Kenny' Chow, 56, an NYC taxi driver, took his own life earlier this month, making him the fifth person in the New York City profession to commit suicide in the past five months.
Taxi, Uber Rides In Manhattan Will Soon Cost More - New York City, NY - New Yorkers will have to pay extra for trips entering, leaving or going through Manhattan starting next year.
such as Uber and Lyft — the fourth such suicide in the last four months, authorities said Wednesday.
Nicanor Ochisor, 65, was found in the garage of his Maspeth, Queens, home by his adult son on Friday, according to Richard Lipsky of the Taxi Medallion Owners and Drivers Association....
The Southern Nevada Taxicab Authority’s administrator resigned Monday amid a series of longtime disagreements with the agency’s board of directors in developing a resolution to reduce complaints about long-hauling.
Disability Rights Advocates, on behalf of the Independent Living Resource Center and two people who use wheelchairs, filed a class-action lawsuit today against Lyft. The plaintiffs allege the ride-hailing company discriminates against people who use wheelchairs by not making available wheelchair-accessible cars in the San Francisco Bay Area.
A man has been arrested in the death of a North Carolina taxi driver.
Winston-Salem police told local media outlets that 49-year-old Richard Dorman Webb was found dead in his cab shortly before 4 a.m. Thursday.
The door to the taxi was open and police say Webb's death is suspicious.
in an effort to manage downtown traffic congestion.City officials say some cabbies park on Bridgeway and leave their vehicles to seek out customers in parking lots, sidewalks or passengers as they stand in lines waiting for ferries. That helps jam traffic along Bridgeway...
With seasonal shifts in demand, strict rules for driving across state lines and a relationship with local taxi companies that goes beyond friendly competition, the industry is still working to find its footing in the basin. Meyers resident Monika Taboada…
limit innovation and saddle cabbies with burdensome costs. But following other cities’ lead has taken us down the wrong path.
Blue Star Cab took its fleet off the road late last month and formally notified Wilson officials Wednesday that it had ceased operations. Ronnie Edmundson, the company’s president, blamed city regulations requiring two cabs to be in service or on call 24 hours a day despite a dearth of demand for overnight rides.
An Uber and Lyft driver’s treatment of city inspectors of ride-hailing cars has prompted the city’s director of Customer Service to send an email asserting that harassment by drivers won’t be tolerated.
discriminatory ban on internal ads in rideshare vehicles, though the court could have done so on more basic, straightforward grounds.
A bill working its way through the state legislature would overhaul the regulatory system for taxicabs, which has traditionally been left to cities and towns. But even cab companies are split on the legislation.
A 61-year-old livery driver posted on Facebook early Monday that city and state politicians were to blame for his financial ruin — then pulled up to the gates of City Hall and shot himself dead with a shotgun, authorities said...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — City officials in Sioux Falls say at least five taxi companies plan to call it quits a year after the railing-hailing service Lyft arrived.
The city's licensing specialist, Jamie Palmer, says eight cab companies missed the recent deadline for renewal and five of them have informed her they won't be renewing.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal judge has ruled against taxi companies in a lawsuit that accused Philadelphia of failing to regulate ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft. Philly.com reports the...
A couple was charged $777.44 for a taxi from Miami International Airport to their Hallandale Beach hotel. It was the worst — by far —of more than 100 overcharge complaints last year filed with Miami-Dade County.
...to settle a proposed class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of 2,421 drivers in New York who accused the ride-sharing company of docking excessive fees from their fares.
But the airport says pickups by taxicabs and shared-use shuttle vans were down 19.5 percent and 15.3 percent, respectively, during the first three months Uber and Lyft operated legally at...
A supporter of yellow cabs recently emailed Crain's, “The city must get a handle on the growth rate of app based FHVs. As [trasnsportation consultant] Bruce Schaller wrote earlier this year, it’s unsustainable. There is no reason why this city should favor low-efficiency vehicles like Ubers which do an average of 5 fares a day and disadvantage high-efficiency vehicles like yellows that do 30 fares a day.”
...is fast becoming a reality. Boston, Massachusetts-based self-driving car startup nuTonomy made headlines in 2016 when it launched the world’s first self-driving taxi service. That was in Singapore and limited to only a few streets. nuTonomy has since been acquired by Aptiv...
Since ridesharing companies Uber and Lyft started rolling through the streets of Monroe in September, services and revenue have decreased for taxi drivers.
Were still hoping for an eleventh-hour reprieve, said Tony Farina, a spokesman for Liberty.
