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At many big hub airports, airlines do provide motorized carts to help passengers, disabled or not, with long distances. (You can flag one down or ask an airline agent to request a pickup.) Most carts run between gates for connecting flights.
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During the call, Halvorson tried to reason with Colleen to start CPR, and when she said her boss won't allow that, the dispatcher asked her to hand the phone to someone nearby, or anyone the nurse could flag down who was not beholden to the facility's policy.
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Commuters who normally pack the city's subways and suburban trains in the city of 13 million tried to flag down taxis, hitch rides or walk home.
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Perhaps most importantly, security forces are in some places loyal to the flag, in others bound to the regime, or split down the middle.
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But the apps challenge a central tenet of the New York taxi market: Yellow cabs can accept customers who flag them down on the street, but cannot "prearrange" a fare by phone or radio.
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