Sentences with phrase «city cabbie»

New York City cabbies are being driven to the edge of financial ruin and despair as ride - hail apps like Uber and Lyft continue to take their customers, with one driver's take - home pay falling from $ 50,000 a year to some $ 17,000.

The #DeleteUber campaign, which was sparked by a misinterpreted attempt to break a strike by New York City cabbies, caught on because there had already been so much anger simmering against the ride - hailing company.

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A group of cabbies, led by Kattoua, commandeered Wu's grey minivan and prevented him from leaving the scene until city officials arrived, issued him a fine (reports put the amount at about $ 350) and towed his vehicle.

For - hire vehicles including app - based services such as Uber would also have to pay a surcharge — a proposal that got mixed reviews from Queens pols whose borough is home to the city's largest share of cabbies.

A Las Vegas technology company, Frias Transportation Infrastructure, gave $ 25,000 while pitching software to city taxi regulators designed to monitor cabbies» whereabouts in real time.

MANHATTAN — Crooked cabbies came under the cross hairs Wednesday when the City Council green - lit a set of laws to track taxi drivers» every turn to ensure passengers are not taken for a ride.

The legislation was introduced after TLC officials discovered that thousands of passengers had been gouged by cabbies to the tune of $ 8 million for charging out - of - city rates on local trips.

«This man should be released, all charges dropped, and the mayor should give him the keys to the City,» Sen. Diane Savino (D - SI / Brooklyn) wrote on Facebook, linking to a Post front page last week about the Bronx cabby who killed career criminal Earl Nash.

The hacks accused the city of allowing app - based ride services such as Uber and Lyft to expand unchecked and gobble up traditional drivers» customers — which has led to desperation among cabbies and four suicides since December.

In New York City, land of the ubiquitous yellow taxi, cabbies and other motorists find themselves with a bit less room to operate these days.

Or would he, without the chance to work in his scientific field, have resembled a different iconic figure, one less touted by politicians but familiar in many cities: the ultra-educated, foreign - born cabbie?

«Unlike cabbies in other cities, London cabbies are forced to learn thousands of street names and routes in order to pass a notoriously difficult...

Martin Scorsese's classic neo-noir thriller tells the story of Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro), a disturbed loner of a veteran working as a nighttime cabbie in New York City.

Taut little thriller, with unlucky but feisty cabbie John Payne caught in a frame - up, directed with panache by B - maestro Karlson («The Phenix City Story»).

Mario and Luigi listen as King Koopa announces his plans to take over New York City, which leads the cabbie to seek assistance from the police.

Once you've earned enough money to expand to another section of the city you'll likely have to put the game down for a while and let your cabbies rack up cash for you over time.

City Ru $ h is a first in the series as due to its mission - based nature there is an actual objective besides making money, and that is completing the multiple tasks given by the original games» cabbies (who now own their own taxi companies), that often revolve around a short, silly story and the one - time customers involved.

Public Art Fund and Rawanchaikul worked with Long Island City - based taxicab companies to gather true - life cabby tales, which he will transform into a Manga - style comic book.

Taxis make up a large part of the traffic in cities, and in the same way it's proved popular with individual owners, the Nissan Leaf electric car appears to have the favor of cabbies.

Unlike other cities, one is not necessarily required to get a commercial driver's license to become a cabbie in Vegas; the professional driver's license is already a good point to venture.

If you're one of the 8.5 million of us who reside in London and complain about the cost of a pint, cabbie meters and the dreaded stamp duty, that would be because you live in the 6th most expensive city in the world.