Sentences with word «cabbie»

«I'm afraid it is a tragic fact that there are now more than a million people in this city who have the Uber app,» he said to jeers from dozens of cabbies in the public gallery.

Veteran actor David Jensen elevates this indie film, playing Larry Shirt, an aging cabbie in New Orleans.

It claims regulation should be relaxed on cabbies, not tightened on Uber.

The Working with Couples with Cabby Laffy seminar is on Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th June 2014, from 10 am to 5 pm.

Commenting in a statement on today's TfL review ruling, Artemis Mercer, who leads the Action for Cabbies campaign group behind the judicial review crowdfunding initiative, said: «TfL's failure to regulate the swelling London private hire industry is proving to be an epidemic and they are now struggling to contain it.

We're all familiar with cab drivers who take the long way around, but what about cabbies who tell you that your hotel has burned down and offers to take you to another (where they collect a commission)?

In 2000, Maguire's scans of the brains of London cabbies showed they had abnormally large hippocampi, the area of the brain vital for navigation.

Or just add a trendy cabby hat for layered look.

«I felt like a New York cabbie on Broadway at five in the afternoon,» Allen, the MVP again, will say later.

And I sure as heck don't even think twice about splurging on an ungodly priced lunch of lobster spaghetti if a local cabbie tells me to do so.

Beijing Taxi (Unrated) Neo-communist documentary offers an intimate peek at the social transformation of rapidly - modernizing China as witnessed by a trio of cabbies driving around the nation's capital.

She also backed the «spirit and mission» of a proposal by Brooklyn Councilman Brad Lander that would establish a pay floor for drivers working, as Uber and Lyft cabbies do, as independent contractors.

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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.

The trailer starts with Deapool's returning cabbie Dopinder and his banter with Ryan Reynolds» Deadpool sets the tone for the trailer.

A parallel plot line follows Ramzik (Karren Karagulian), an Armenian cabbie who picks up passengers, discharges passengers, and makes frequent sorties along the blocks known for transvestite hookers.

Read Mann's Collateral as his ice - blue dissection of sharks at play in the divorced wonderland of Los Angeles, locating Miami Vice as its border - town brother, where good guys (like Jamie Foxx's cabbie from Collateral) don't need to be told to look for their inner predator: they've been nurturing that bastard for years on a rich diet of righteousness, impotence, and rage.

The film focuses on a loner New York cabbie named Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro in one of his career - defining roles).

A 23rd - century New York City cabbie encounters a genetically engineered alien named Leeloo, who has the life force that can unite the planet's elements and stave off a raging fireball that's on a collision course with Earth.

Uber cars were involved in more deadly crashes than yellow cabbies in the second half of 2015, according to data the NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission released.

In Crazy Taxi, time is money, and only the craziest cabbies come out victorious.

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@Randy: If Religious faith gets to dictate company policy for any company you work for, and companies are not allowed to «discriminate» against faiths, how do you propose we deal with Muslim cabbies, bus drivers, and business owners, refusing to cater to disabled persons with guide dogs?

Their sitting arrangement, she has little cabbies that have everything they need for feeding time — wipes, books and toys for the kids.

A high - profile cabby advocate whose wife needs the city's OK for a women - only livery service admitted to The Post on Monday that he raised campaign cash for Mayor Bill de Blasio and funneled it through an unemployed Brooklyn woman.

Gibson (Lethal Weapon, The Bounty) plays cabbie Jerry Fletcher, a self - proclaimed conspiracy theorist, who finds government involvement in nearly everything, including assassinations, constant surveillance, and even water pipes breaking in the middle of the city.

It has basically been forever since I have done a post about the VW Cabby.

«But the answer is to reduce the onerous regulations cabbies face today — not increase them for everyone else.»

Chronically alone, Travis can not connect with anyone, not even with such other cabbies as blowhard Wizard (Peter Boyle).

Not that making the right noises on this fraught issue will hurt Goldsmith's standing among cabbies, something his campaign adviser Lynton Crosby will pay attention to.

A Brooklyn woman was questioned by a city corruption - busting FBI agent on Tuesday — just hours after high - profile cabby advocate Fernando Mateo admitted to The Post that he had used her as a front to funnel campaign contributions to Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Cuomo also signed a bill into law that will require cabbies and other commercial drivers to wear seat belts while driving.

However, Boris's refusal to take any further action against Uber means London now faces what cabbies described today as «the biggest ever taxi protest» next Tuesday.

Frustrated cabbies on Wednesday laid four coffins on the sidewalk outside City Hall, where they blamed the de Blasio administration for the recent suicides of taxi and livery drivers.

Rock the Corduroy Cabby Hat ($ 12.99) and Girl Next Door Bandana ($ 6.50, originally $ 12.99) for that trendy - chic look!

When he receives a police transmission about a bank robbery in effect, Washburn commandeers a taxi driven by feisty cabbie Belle (Queen Latifah) and they speed to the scene of the crime in her pimped - out taxi with enough engine modifications to put Vin Diesel to shame.

I rebuilt that engine, and now the MK1 Cabby has a 6 cylinder engine in it.

Nothing says «I'm the greenest cabbie around» quite like a human powered Rickshaw, which emits close to zero grams of carbon a year — depending on what you had for lunch.

But even better is Crazy Taxi's use of Game Center leaderboards, which lets you compare your performance to cabbies all over the world for each game mode and Crazy Box challenge.

Master Cabbie Taxi Academy, established in 1996, is the biggest Taxi Driver Training Center in the World.

The answer is to reduce the onerous regulations cabbies face today — not increase them for everyone else.

Managing this conflict is one of the key areas tackled in The Awareness Centre's weekend CPD seminar Working with Couples with Cabby Laffy.

To that end, she enlists the help of a Sikh cabbie (Ben Kingsley).