If you find a good taxi driver with a clean cab, ask if you can request him or her again.
"The point is," one driver said, "everything they do is never good for cab drivers".
He has a knack for the apt metaphor: on a good run, cabs and buses become for messengers "little flags on a slalom course"; after a bad one, his mangled arms lay coiled under his body "like thick rope .As he sped along, Mr Culley was possibly right to feel superior to deskbound types.
Taxi fares have not risen in more than seven years and are among the lowest among the nation's large cities. "The significance in this is it's good news for cab users," said Bruce Schaller, who runs a cab research and consulting firm.
In the mid-1970s, with disco luring dancers away from live bands, Mr. Brown drew on James Brown's funk, Latin rhythms and the crowd-pleasing good humor of Cab Calloway-era big bands to create go-go.
Roger Ailes followed this directive in 1968, most famously when he attempted to find "a good, mean, Wallaceite cab driver" while prepping a "Man in the Arena" appearance for then candidate Richard Nixon.
For one show, Ailes sought to recruit what he called a "good, mean, Wallaceite cab driver….Some guy to sit there and say, 'Alwright, Mac, what about these niggers?'" Nixon could then abhor the incivility of the words, while dog-whistling a "moderate" version of the opinion.
Speaking of the 2006 World Cup, John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York, recalled: "In the city of Birmingham, where a good number of taxi cabs are operated by Asians, often Muslims, the flag of St George became an addition to every cab".
