Contrast that with New York City, where cabs are among the only places guaranteed to take cards.
Car services depend on those because they can't pick up passengers who hail cabs on streets.
Beloved by users, Uber fills the gap between dirty cabs and expensive limo rentals.
There were 18 participants that year, and they had to take cabs between events.
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Bob Oddy from the Licensed Taxi Drivers Association insisted black cabs were safe, despite Worboys' conviction.
Desert-tan pieces of Humvee cabs lay scattered about, some of them dented by 20-mm. test bullets.
Services like buses and cabs, as well as female-only hotel floors, have also become increasingly common in the country.
The campaign includes posters on public transport and several free phone and text numbers for licensed cabs.
That came to more than 30 hours on airplanes, with matching downtime in airports, hotels and cabs.
The TLC SmartCab setup was designed by Digital Dispatch and should already be in around 200 cabs.
Uber has grown quickly in popularity as a convenient alternative to cabs on the high end.
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He said the firm was now ordering parts and recruiting to restart production of black cabs by June.
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He is an immigrant from Trinidad and came to America thirty-five years ago, when he started driving cabs.
Just riding in one of the rickety cabs is enough to give you heart palpitations for the evening.
Sheffield City Council said cameras in taxis and private hire cabs would help reduce abuse and violent attacks.
Mr. Aliyev attended last year's unveiling and asked to take one of the cabs for a test drive.
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Uber also has launched a cheaper Uber X service, and an UberTaxi service, which operates with yellow cabs.
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She's afraid to take her usual train to her job at a Boston hospital, walking or taking cabs instead.
Affordable and low polluting cabs are within our grasp and I urge manufacturers to accelerate efforts to produce them.
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All three men drove cabs for a living but they were serious musicians.
Some ran right over his taxi and two other cabs parked nearby, breaking mirrors, windshields, bashing in the doors.
It has been claimed this could eliminate 20% of the capital's exhaust pollution caused by its 22, 000 black cabs.
Manganese Bronze, the maker of London's black cabs, is to call in administrators PricewaterhouseCoopers after failing to secure new funding.
In this case, no one can run from paying a fare as some have been known to do with cabs.
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Pham, the Z hotel guest, said travel to Manhattan was easy, between subways, cabs and Z's free hourly shuttle bus.
They traipse along muddy roads on the Czech-Polish border, climbing into cabs to service lorry drivers backed up at customs.
By helping people find cabs, Flywheel increases the usage of the cabs on it system by an average of 20%.
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In addition, passengers can only pick up these cabs in Manhattan, but the taxis will travel anywhere in the five boroughs.
Billboards line the highways, cabs carry ads, and cities and states have been selling ads on buses and trains for ages.
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In the railroad industry, it took decades to get rid of coal-shovelers, holdover from steam locomotives, from the cabs of diesel engines.
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