Cab use goes down in New York City almost in direct correlation to declines in employment at restaurants and bars, declines the city has experienced recently, said Bruce Schaller, a former Taxi and Limousine Commission policy director who runs a cab research and consulting firm.
She also runs a cab service for the elderly and doggedly pursues the affections of Richard, a shoe salesman and father of two, played by the dishevelled John Hawkes of Deadwood.
He ran a cab stand (in other words, a crime hub and money-laundering outfit) for Jimmy Hoffa in Miami, trained anti-Castro commandos at the behest of the C.I.A. and of gangsters keen to get back their Havana casinos, and financed his cadre's clandestine training camps with a drug-dealing operation run out of the cab stand.
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.
Are the regulations over who can run a taxi cab in London about protection of vested interests, or are they about ensuring the safety of drivers and passengers?
A loophole, now closed, in company-car tax-assessment rules briefly made running a double-cab pick-up as a company car a very cost- effective idea, which fuelled their popularity among those of brash taste.
He really reminds me of Neal Cassady – he had a knack for stealing cars, and was running an illegal taxi cab service.
She said she had been running for a cab but "some other people took it".
Testifying on Wednesday at the manslaughter trial of the man who owned the crane, the father, Donald R. Leo, recalled running for a cab from his own job site in Midtown on May 30 , 2008
New York is a city of immigrants and some of these immigrants work in this city in various ways from driving a cab to running a restaurant or a community association.
