In countries like Vietnam and India where many people still get around on bicycle, visitors often find that cycling for all or part of their trip can offer the greatest opportunity to appreciate local life--the scents, sights and sounds that pass you by if you're whizzing through town in a taxi on the way to and from your hotel.
The nearest driver is contacted, and once one accepts your request, you are given the name of your driver, the number of the taxi that is headed your way, and an estimated arrival time.
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Mr Smith's Consumer Protection (Private car Parks) Bill would see operators licensed by local authorities in a similar way to pubs or taxi drivers.
So, is driving a taxi in New York City a good way to make a living?
On his way into New York, a taxi had smashed into his tour bus.
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Yet now that the Shuttle has been scuttled and a proposed Ares I Constellation rocket program has been canceled, other than hitching Russian taxi rides, our astronauts currently have no way to get there and back.
Mr Macia, a taxi driver, was reportedly detained for parking his vehicle in a way that blocked traffic.
If yin is a Volkswagen taxi taking a passenger to work, yang is a concrete mixer on its way to a building site.
Along the lakes that calm Berlin, driving east toward the Pergamon Museum that houses the cobalt blue mosaic Gates of Babylon and the Neues Museum with its bust of Nefertiti, the taxi driver pointed out the markings of the former Wall at various points along the way.
The restriction was put in place as a way of managing night-time economies and policing, and easing pressure on taxi ranks.
They compare pay-day loans to a taxi cab, which is cost-effective for short distances but probably not the best way to travel from New York to San Francisco.
The taxi situation is totally ridiculous but for some reason people just accept this as part of the way our transportation system works.
But his career failed to take off in any meaningful way and looked to be over when he suffered a shock points loss to Belfast taxi driver Martin Rogan in December 2008.
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