Mr Caines does not want to part company with his current vehicle, and dislikes the idea of one manufacturer making all of the city's taxis.
Dushanbe's taxis usually reach their destination, if not very fast.
All of Kathmandu's taxis are compact, fuel-efficient Maruti cars imported from India. (Fuel shortage or no, Chaudhary prefers to be chauffeur-driven in a gas-guzzling Suzuki SUV to his seven-story group headquarters on the site of a former electronics factory).
And then when I do get home, an hour and a half later, I am nearly blinded by the headlights of all the S.U.V.s and taxis waiting at the station.
Yet, jump in a black cab -- London's iconic taxis -- anywhere in the city, and the driver will get you to where you want to go via the shortest possible route.
In the funeral last week, 30 coffins were carried on top of Baghdad's white and orange taxis.
To many in South Africa's wealthier car-owning class, that's 200, 000 taxis too many.
In New Delhi, the nation's capital, public transport was partially hit with taxis and some buses off the road, but the city's metro train service wasn't affected.
His organization has already sued the TLC over its plan to create 18, 000 new street-hail taxis outside Manhattan's central business district, a move viewed by the yellow cab industry as a threat.
People aren't using taxis anymore because it's too expensive, so we aren't getting any work.
Some were found stacking shelves in supermarkets or driving taxis - and that's if they were employed at all.
Meantime, we have a car that looks like a London taxi if Aston Martin built taxis, and that's not a bad thing.
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Admittedly, London's dwindling fleet of old-fashioned double-decker red Routemaster buses, like the black taxis and old red telephone boxes, are a distinctive and attractive feature of the city's landscape.
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But now there's hope for us poor suckers: small jets and air taxis.
Topping any young woman's most eligible bachelor list would have to be Albert von Turn und Taxis .
London taxis are designed to be commodious to an English gentleman's top hat in the back seat and a trans-Atlantic steamship chest in the trunk.
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The Metropolitan Taxicab Board of Trade alleges that the city and the Taxi and Limousine Commission, which is expected to approve the rules for so-called borough taxis on Thursday, are depriving owners of the city's 13, 000 yellow-cab medallions of their "exclusive right" to accept street hails.
This may explain why Ms Lagarde's new law does not touch other regulated areas, such as pharmacies, taxis and notaries.
"We've seen executives leave laptops on buses or in the back of taxis, " said Matt Adams, a manager in Deloitte's security and resilience team.
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.
Brown banquettes upholstered in what the French euphemistically call moleskin but North Americans know as leatherette line both walls of the long, narrow railroad-car-like dining room, and there's a little bar just inside the front door where your bill is tallied and taxis are called.
Princes Street, the city's top shopping street, has been made one-way, except for buses and taxis.
The city state's transport system would benefit from being better able to match the demand and supply of taxis, particularly when it rains, which tends to happen suddenly in Singapore.
The zero emission taxis have been developed by a consortium, led by Intelligent Energy, which includes Lotus Engineering, London Taxis International and TRW Conekt with part-funding from the UK Government's Technology Strategy Board.
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Even if stuck in rush hour traffic, passengers will experience a super-speedy journey thanks to free mobile 4G from EE, as Britain's only superfast 4G network brings the latest in communications technology to this unique fleet of taxis.
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There's three or four pubs which people could go to before, then the food places after and then taxis taking people home.
For NASA, Mr. Musk's partner, the goal is to validate development of private cargo vehicles and eventually, fleets of space taxis to take astronauts into orbit.
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