There is exactly one taxi cab service in the state capitol, and two movie theatres.
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Traffic is being diverted away from area, causing one taxi driver to claim the town is "gridlocked" at rush hour.
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For the past seven years, instructors have crossed the country offering driver-education seminars and recruiting conscientious drivers to compete in the Brandhouse Number-One Taxi Driver competition, sponsored by the South African distributor for liquor brands including Jose Cuervo tequila and Smirnoff vodka.
At the Farnborough International Air Show outside London last week, Lufthansa Technik AG and Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. announced coming tests of one environmentally friendly taxi system.
Scooterman's prices aim to beat the cost of a return taxi ride - one to get home after a night drinking and a second to pick up your car the following day.
Indeed, if one lives in a quiet neighborhood not normally serviced by cabs, the wait for a traditional taxi can often be a lengthy one.
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The potential move to one manufacturer is not popular with veteran taxi driver John Caines, who is devoted to his Crown Victoria.
One of the admitted problems of the taxi industry is that the worst drivers are often the most visible to travelers and tourists.
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Pushing through Beijing traffic, taxi driver Ma Junjing has one eye on the road ahead and the other on a laminated card twirling from his rearview mirror.
Boris Kodjoe is believable as an amorous basketball player, and Mos Def has great success with the small role of Christopher, a rapper reduced to driving a taxi. (And one of the only medallioned cabs in New York without a security barrier, which would have impeded several dialogue scenes.) Keep an ear out for Christopher's quick rap on Bogey and Casablanca.
The heirs of the owner of a corporation that at one time was the largest owner of Boston taxi medallions were succesful at resisting the claim.
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The other one told me that she was in a taxi going to face her husband's lawyer because she was getting a divorce, but she was wearing Lanvin and she felt so protected.
And that gave the company courage to start the taxi service, which began with just one cab and two drivers.
But in the course of one week in October, Uber was sued by taxi and limousine companies, and Chicago regulators sent citations and filed a class-action suit on behalf of passengers.
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There are also rising stars such as MOO, Moshi Monsters, Huddle and one of the newest US arrivals Hailo, the new taxi app designed by London cabbies.
This meant that when they did launch to customers, they already had hundreds of drivers signed up - so when you clicked to request a taxi there was a fair chance of getting one.
Anyone who has tried to hail a taxi in Chicago or San Francisco knows about this one.
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One of the shows that executed the trope very well was Taxi, with Andy Kaufman playing the mechanic Latka.
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One Friday in April, six people were killed when their taxi rolled over and 11 more died in a collision between a taxi and a car on the same highway between Johannesburg and Durban.
The lawsuit is yet another hurdle for e-hails, one of the chief initiatives for reimagining the city's taxi fleet backed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and David Yassky, the chairman of the Taxi and Limousine Commission.
He said there were no mitigating circumstances and although Rodgers had not pulled the trigger, he had driven the hijacked taxi after Miss Doherty knowing there was going to be only one outcome if she was caught.
One of the occasions on which it went to the expense of hiring a taxi was to take Mrs Williams, pregnant with Gareth, to hospital.
One of them, Yusuf, drives an autorickshaw, a three-wheel taxi.
One of a handful of private companies receiving funds from NASA to develop a space taxi system, SpaceX hopes the experience with the cargo flights will help the company reach its goal of carrying astronauts aboard the Dragon.
There were two other men in the depot also waiting for a taxi, and the firm's owner, John Sherry, since deceased, said he would take all three at once but as he drove along Annadale Embankment, one of the men "pointed a gun at his head" and hijacked the taxi.
There were two other men in the depot also waiting for a taxi so the firm's owner, John Sherry, said he would take all three at once but as he drove along Annadale Embankment, one of the men "pointed a gun at his head" and hijacked the taxi, the court was told.
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There were two other men in the depot also waiting for a taxi, and the firm's owner, John Sherry, who has since died, said he would take all three at once but as he drove along Annadale Embankment, one of the men "pointed a gun at his head" and hijacked the taxi.
One is Robert Crandall, former CEO of American Airlines, who now heads POGO, an air taxi service headquartered in Connecticut.
As one elderly woman told me, she had to get two buses, a train and then a taxi to get to a private clinic.
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