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Jean-Jacques Dulugat learned yesterday why you should never let an unlicensed cabbie give you a lift from the airport. Police tried to stop Dulugat and his family as they got into a van driven by a pair of known solicitors, but the duo took off and led cops on a high-speed chase through Brooklyn...
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Tamara Perez caught a cab to her Manhattan home Tuesday, when she noticed that she didn't have enough cash. The cab had a credit card machine, so she decided to pay with credit.
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New York taxi drivers have resigned themselves to a fate with credit cards, according to a
New York Times investigation. Cabbies struck twice this year to protest regulations forcing them to accept credit of all stripes. To see if cabbies are following the new rules, the Times asked five reporters to hop in twenty
cabs each with one question: "I've only got a credit card, is that O.K.?"
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Cab rides in Washington will soon be cheaper thanks to Mayor Adrian Fenty's decision to
scrap the DC's antiquated and expensive zone system in favor of the modern meter system found in any respectable city. Cheaper fares for residents means less profit for cabbies. Said one: "There is no way we can make a living on a [time-and-distance] meter."
"The talk of a strike is in the formulation plans," said Nathan Price, a driver for Yellow Cab Company of D.C. Inc. and a spokesman for the D.C. Professional Taxicab Drivers Association (PTDA).
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