One of them, an older man with an immaculate cab, ferries your correspondent to Volvo's headquarters on the other side of the river.
Descend to the Nile valley and be jolted by rutted roads lined with rubbish and packed with crowded jitney cabs, ferrying the working poor from their cramped and airless dwellings to insecure jobs and run-down schools.
Mr. Saleh drove an unlicensed gypsy cab that ferried passengers from the subway station at 231st Street and Broadway to their homes, Mr. Sheth said.
The government has poured millions into the capital, Baku, turning it into a sort of European capital on the Caspian, with grand, illuminated buildings, a tree-lined boardwalk, and even a fleet of London-style cabs to ferry visitors around.
The third and most purely enjoyable of the Iranian director's self-reflexive protest films made in the wake of his 2010 house arrest, this shot-from-the-dashboard road movie finds Panahi masquerading as a cab driver, ferrying a disparate assortment of fares – a jovial DVD bootlegger, a politically impassioned schoolteacher, Panahi's own precocious niece – through the chaotic streets of Tehran.
In his latest, which sees Panahi posing as a cab driver ferrying a selection of rhetoric-spouting fares, politics take a back seat to the slightly self-admiring ambiguity of his coy "documentary" technique: it's the playfulness of the exercise, more than its resultant message, that sticks.
What at first appeared to be a daring political stunt — having the prime minister of Norway pose as a cab driver, ferrying unsuspecting passengers around Oslo to eavesdrop on the national conversation — turns out to have been at least partly staged, as five of the citizens whose shocked reactions were caught on hidden cameras had been cast in the roles, the Norwegian tabloid VG revealed on Monday.
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Amazonian parrots, introduced in Flagler's day, thrive in the Pine Walk, now part parking lot, part bird preserve, along which bicycle cabs once ferried guests from one side of Palm Beach to the other.
It's the same reason why, when the cab driver who ferried me to Paddington asked: "Going anywhere nice?", I could only reply: "I really hope so".
