Hints and tips:
...“Amlo isn’t taking us in the right direction,” says Cristopher Herrera Sarmiento, a vet in the town of Escárcega, whose family business lies in the path of the Maya Train....
...The things I spend most of my money on, to my shame, are probably taxis and food. My life extravagance: I am known as Holidaisy....
...Lynne Ramsay gets about as close as anyone should with You Were Never Really Here, a Taxi Driver for the age of Uber....
...He’s a military vet, with medium-grade nightmares, turned soldier for Christ. We meet him in his New England parish, preparing for his gleaming white church’s 250th anniversary reconsecration....
...Uber employs a third-party company, Checkr, to vet most US drivers....
...After a walk through Western Park, I checked the time and ordered a taxi, more relaxed than I’d felt for months before my 30-hour journey home....
...It was a bureaucratic nightmare and we almost got stranded in Athens airport, alternating between desperate calls to the vet in Israel and to the travel firm....
...Actress and writer Carol Drinkwater, 68, became a household name at 26 as vet’s wife Helen Herriot in the BBC TV series All Creatures Great and Small (1977-85)....
...Mohammed was driving a taxi and enjoying life playing soccer in Homs when Syria descended into civil war in 2011....
...to establish clear background checks currently absent in their commercial transportation licensing system,” Mr Kalanick said on Monday, as the company sought to deflect criticism that it had failed to vet...
...Tourist infrastructure is close to zero: there is a shortage of almost everything — hotel beds, restaurants, taxis, hire cars, buses, even souvenirs. There are no beaches worth mentioning....
...First, they came for the taxis. Now, Uber and Lyft have their eye on disrupting public buses, as they roll out their “shared-rides” services in selected US cities in an update to their apps....
...Car-sharing and taxi hire services from Zipcar to Hailo to mGaadi (a fast-growing autorickshaw service in India) are becoming common, removing the hassle of owning, parking and insuring a vehicle....
...As clever-sounding new apps run into real-world regulation – some forms of ride-sharing, for instance, could contravene taxi regulation – some will fall away....
...“We tell offenders we are just a taxi service,” says Julian Davis, the ex-policeman on duty for G4S. “It helps defuse the tension.”...
...I felt like I had more in common with my taxi driver from a third world country than with my fellow Americans.”...
...Of the puppy he bought her, a mongrel, she enthuses: “He gave me a dog, a very nice little dog, but I am afraid the vet says it is going to grow to be very large....
...In an ironic twist, it is the ANP who eventually resolve the situation by arranging a taxi to take the dogs to safety....
...But, of course, the vets in this case were former members of the American military. One of them – now employed as a taxi-driver – has just driven me back to the FT house....
...When Rei (OK, we call her Madam Kawakubo) came to vet our window display, a strange feeling of déjà vu came over us....
...Until recently most Sowetans had to travel by bus or taxi to Johannesburg’s city centre to make major purchases....
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