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How the Taxicab Industry Was Junked
How and why a once beneficial public service has been turned into a private garbage dump operation at the cost of billions in evaded taxes and the loss of half a century's progressive labor legislation - By Burton H. Wolfe (hosted with permission as a public service.)

WORLDWIDE TAXICAB SITES

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Canada

Canadian Taxicab Association
Membership in the CTA is open to any licensed taxi company in Canada and
automatically includes a listing as a Canadian Preferred Taxi for it's service area.
Taxi Union - 1605, Verchères, Longueuil, Québec, Canada J4K 2Z6
(Offer English or French pages

Administration : (450) 670-6940
Télécopie/Fax: (450) 674-6263
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Taxi Service 679-6262
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LEBANON - Taxis drop their fares to compete with mini-buses - 14/09/99 (now '404' 3/2001)
...Torfeh explained that what had encouraged the drivers to drop prices was the fact that most of us have replaced gasoline-operating engines with ones that run on diesel. Diesel is much cheaper than gasoline and the change has helped reduce costs to both drivers and passengers. ...
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Despite the potentially negative health and environmental effects of diesel, as well as a law banning the use of diesel engines in cars, taxi driver Adel Mozzawaq said the government should try to understand the difficulties he and his colleagues were going through. ...

Germany

Germany: Taxi Cologne
Cologne's premier Taxi Service. The first taxi in Cologne, Köln, on the Internet. Business and residents service. Call us when in Cologne.
Contact: +49 228 63 31 9

Pacific Region

Search under 'Pacific Region' for "taxi"- archives for SIDSnet
Small Island Developing States Network (SIDSnet)
Results of Preliminary Survey of Civil/Commercial GPS (Global Positioning System) Usage in the Asia-Pacific Region
APEC TEL WG - 16 TEL - DCSG - TELWG16/DCSG/B-3/2

The survey drew a wide range of responses and was especially successful in identifying new points of contact that should be of benefit to all APEC economies interested in using GPS. Detailed responses were received from (in alphabetical order) eight economies:

Australia
Canada
Hong Kong
Japan
Korea, Republic of
Singapore
Thailand
United States

Only Hong Kong declined to join the project committee.
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ISSUING OF FIJI'S TAXI LICENSES CALLED 'RACIST' - Fiji Islands (October 12, 1998)
abstract:

...The advertisement by the Head of the Department of the Road Transport, Inia Tamani, said taxi permits would only be issued to Fijian applicants "until the Fijian permit ownership reaches 2,000."
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Currently, the ethnic distribution of taxi permits are: 2,285 to Indians, 1,756 to Fijians and 205 to others.
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The advertisement said the criteria were in line with a Government decision, made in 1994, "to help Fijian participation and proprietorship in the taxi industry by increasing taxi permit ownership to 2,000 to be relatively at par with Indian taxi ownership." ...
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Singapore
In the area of Rapid Transit Systems, Singapore is constructing the NEL,
CAL, BP LRT, SKG LRT, PGL LRT and the Marina Line. After the completion of these projects, the rail network will have roughly doubled.
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Commuters can expect more premier bus services to provide higher grade of
services, and better and more commuter facilities to provide a seamless
point-to-point journey regardless of the weather.
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Taxis will continue to provide car-like services, and bridge the gap between
private transport, and bus and rail transport. Since the deregulation of taxi
fares, taxi operators will have the flexibility to offer a wider variety of services, and use differential pricing to address the shortage of taxis during peak hours. The taxi operators have also used Global Positioning System (GPS) technology to improve the radiophone service to better match demand and supply of taxis.
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LTA has also embarked on a programme to work with the public transport
operators to implement an integrated Travel Information System (TIS). When
completed in about 3-4 years' time, it will provide passengers with real-time
information on the various public transport systems through the Internet,
multi-media kiosks and telephone hotlines. In this way, commuters will be
able to make better-informed decisions about public transport, based on
real-time information accessible from convenient locations of their choice.
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Singapore’s Individual Action Plan 1998 - Deregulation Report 1998

United Kingdom (Isles)

The UK's Definitive taxicab web site's home page (incl. picture gallery of taxi's)
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sales@taxicab.co.uk

United States

CA

San Francisco Taxicab Services
You just gotta see this one!

Vallejo,CA Taxicab Scrip Program
The Vallejo Taxicab Scrip Program provides half-fare taxi coupons to Vallejo
seniors and Vallejo residents with disabilities.
Cashier's Office
Vallejo City Hall
555 Santa Clara Street
Vallejo, CA 94590
&
Florence Douglas Senior Center

NY

Enough already!...Taxi! - New York - West Village, Chelsea, Hell's Kitchen - 05/26/98
"Just a few months ago Mayor Giuliani set aside a day and saluted our cabbies. Celebrating Taxicab Appreciation Day, he served free donuts and coffee to drivers at the opening of a new Krispy Kreme Doughnuts on 72nd Street. Now he's cracking down on the same drivers and proposing higher insurance rates for yellow cabs. When the taxi drivers chose to demonstrate, Rudy used a show of police force to stop them. On Tuesday, Judge Robert P. Paterson Jr., U.S. District Court in Manhattan, approved an orderly procession of 250 cabs through Manhattan to begin at 10:AM Wednesday, May 27. The City appealed...and a few hours later in an emergency ruling, another judge temporarily blocked the proposed caravan. ..."
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Schaller Consulting (NYC Transit); "Assessed taxi issues for the Los Angeles D.O.T. .."

and among his list of 'highlights':
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"Assessed taxi issues for the Los Angeles Department of Transportation; results were used in re-franchising process. "

  • Schaller Consulting
    SCHALLER CONSULTING
    94 Windsor Place
    Brooklyn, New York 11215
    718 768-3487 E-mail: schaller@schallerconsult.com

    www.schallerconsult.com

  • NYC TAXICAB FACT BOOK

  • NY's Taxi Medallion System

  • NYC For-Hire Vehicle Fact Book (1993)
  • The TaxiDirect Taxicab Directory
    Gera informiert - research?
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    Taxi-Union

    Dienstleistungen Taxi Taxi-Union Lortzingstr. 24 07548 Gera 0365 81171
    http://www.gera.informiert.de/