Hints and tips:
...Uber added thousands of New York City’s yellow taxis last year via a partnership with two local companies, Curb and CMT, despite ongoing opposition from some drivers’ associations there....
...Uber will list New York City taxis on its ride-hailing app in a deal that promises to end years of rancour between the tech company and drivers of the iconic yellow cabs in the biggest US city....
...When yellow taxis wouldn’t go to the Bronx in the 1990s because of the high crime, the unlicensed gypsy cab trade flourished....
...Keith Winstein, a computer science professor at Stanford University, expressed his doubts....
...Even WhatsApp groups used by employees to share cab rides to and from Hong Kong’s airport have splintered, with “yellow ribbon” groups for those that support the protest movement and “blue ribbon” groups...
...People pile into private cars and Ubers, causing gridlock along the Long Island Expressway and creating demand for a $200 Uber Copter trip rather than a $50 ride in a yellow cab....
...Gett links users with established taxi operators such as black cabs in London or yellow taxis in New York, allowing it to plug into existing taxi networks with accredited drivers, while also allowing the...
...The majority of its loans appear to have been backed by taxi medallions, licences issued by the authorities to allow metered Yellow Cabs — the only cabs that can be hailed on the street — to operate....
...That compares with about 13,500 yellow cabs and roughly 40,000 other for-hire vehicles dispatched by livery and black car services....
...While some listed lenders such as Capital One have posted rising losses from the yellow-cab business, smaller credit unions that specialise in the trade have run into serious financial difficulties....
...Allan Fromberg, deputy commissioner at New York’s Taxi and Limousine Commission, points out that the additional data are already required from yellow cabs and are necessary for the commission to make sure...
...Until the taxi apps came to Russia, cabs hailed illegally on the street were the norm....
...And my cab driver says to me, so er, what do y’all do for a living? I was like, I’m in tech. He’s like, successful? And I’m like, reasonably. And he said to me, it’s quite funny, pardon my French....
...A $2bn lender that finances New York’s iconic yellow taxi trade has warned it has become undercapitalised, as the fallout from the rise of car-booking apps such as Uber escalates....
...As authorities controlled how many of the medallions they issued, the value of this right to be a part of the lucrative yellow cab trade swelled....
...“Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone,” sang Joni Mitchell in Big Yellow Taxi, and New York’s cab drivers must look back wistfully to the pre-Uber era....
...Bronson, broad shouldered, handsome, is the son of a Stanford archaeologist. He runs an agroforestry business consulting for institutions that hold timber in their portfolios....
...For the past 19 years, Medallion Financial has traded under the symbol “TAXI” in New York, with big investors including BlackRock and Morgan Stanley warming to its simple business supplying loans to yellow-cab...
...Commuting in India’s congested financial capital of Mumbai was made even trickier on Tuesday when thousands of the city’s famous “black and yellow” taxi cabs went on strike against the growing threat posed...
...This includes partnerships with Addison Lee, the UK’s largest minicab group; Comcab, the London black cab operator; New York private hire firms Carmel and Dial 7; and 10,000 yellow and green cab drivers...
...In an underground car park on Park Lane are red Ferraris, yellow Lamborghinis and Bentleys in British racing green. There is also a fleet of Chinese minicabs....
...With more than 20,000 cars on New York streets, Uber’s fleet now outnumbers traditional yellow taxi cabs....
...Among the earlier cases the Labor Commissioner drew on to make the ruling was a 1991 lawsuit involving a Yellow Cab Cooperative, which found that the “overriding factor is that the persons performing the...
...Average daily fares for yellow cabs, including tips, are down just over 4 per cent from their peak in Spring 2013, according to data from the TLC....
...Uber has signed up 15,000 drivers in New York since its launch in 2012, resulting in a sharp drop in the number of yellow cabs....
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