Sentences with phrase «from taxi companies»

Giving my mate a lift from the train station is «stealing» from the taxi companies, I suppose?

Ride - sharing apps Uber and Lyft are finding some resistance to expanding upstate, including labor concerns in Assembly, opposition from taxi companies.

In 1932, New York City mayor Jimmy Walker responded to the public demand for regulation with a new regulatory scheme, one that rapidly fell apart, in the later accounting of the Seabury Commission, after he took bribes from a taxi company.

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GM helps shape self - driving car regulations When Illinois state Rep. Michael Zalewski introduced legislation allowing car makers to run self - driving taxi services, he had help from Mary Barra's company.

What kickstarted in 2009 with just $ 200,000 in seed funding is now a multi-billion dollar company that provides commuters from all across the globe an alternative to the usual taxi transportation.

In January, a #DeleteUber boycott erupted on Twitter after some users accused the tech company of trying to profit from a taxi driver protest against President Donald Trump's immigration ban.

Many of the departures have been blamed on the company's current PR mess, which began in January with the #DeleteUber boycott over accusations that the company tried to profit from a taxi driver strike against President Trump's immigration ban.

According to a snazzy computer rendering from the company, it's building perfectly symmetrical, bidirectional, neon - green - and - black robo - taxis that look like giant remote - control toys.

Currently, a Vancouver bylaw restricts the number of permanent taxis to 588, and the city's four cab companies fiercely lobby to keep that number from rising.

The official Denver report on the Democrats» largesse four years ago includes testimonials from small business entrepreneurs, including a taxi company that reported a 42 % increase in business over comparable weeks, and a shuttle bus company that did 60 % more business than usual.

The on - demand taxi company made a splash in 2014 when it announced that customers could use its app to order an UberJET to fly them from Paris to the Cannes Film Festival.

Critics swiftly accused the ridesharing company of attempting to undermine or profit from a work stoppage by taxi drivers that had been called by the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, an AFL - CIO affiliate that represents many immigrants, and whose work has been largely focused on stopping the encroachment of ride - hailing companies like Utaxi drivers that had been called by the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, an AFL - CIO affiliate that represents many immigrants, and whose work has been largely focused on stopping the encroachment of ride - hailing companies like UTaxi Workers Alliance, an AFL - CIO affiliate that represents many immigrants, and whose work has been largely focused on stopping the encroachment of ride - hailing companies like Uber.

Neither of those convictions would have kept the driver from working for Uber since the company only bans drivers for felonies that have taken place within the past seven years, a stricter criteria than the one used to grant a taxi license in the state of Illinois.

«They're beating the cars with metal bats,» the singer Courtney Love posted on Twitter from an Uber car in Paris at a time of clashes between the company and taxi drivers in 2015.

Just last week, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick resigned from the president's Economic Advisory Council, after users criticized the ride - sharing company for allegedly exploiting a taxi protest against a temporary immigrant ban and for Kalanick's relationship with Trump.

The embattled Uber founder decided to step down from President Donald Trump's business advisory board mere minutes before the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, a union that claims to represent 50,000 drivers in New York, was scheduled to protest the ride - hailing startup at the company's driver office in Long Island City, New York.

As the Country Head of Singapore for Grab, Lim took Grab from being unheard of a few years ago, to having more drivers on the platform than all of Singapore's taxi companies combined.

Mexico City has imposed rules and fees for ride - sharing companies Uber and Cabify, following an uproar from taxi drivers.

GrabTaxi, however, functions as a third - party app for booking taxi rides, allowing riders to connect with taxi drivers from various companies while operating within local taxi regulations.

The taxi company often garners a mixed response from the public, but on this occasion fans used it to express their desire to see key men leave the club.

That's why — in order to help out and also to build up some good publicity and set itself apart from competitors — one taxi company in Japan started a special maternity taxi service for pregnant women, and it's proved so popular that now a ton of companies in different cities are doing it, too.

Heastie didn't rule out changes to reach an agreement, as expanding the services upstate is being opposed by taxi companies that face stiff competition from apps offered by Lyft or Uber.

It's unclear how the current taxi fleet, already under pressure from app - based competitors that they consider essentially rogue taxi companies, will feel about carriage drivers being jumped to the front of the green taxi medallion line.

Buffalo Common Councilman Joe Golombek agreed that the playing field favors ridesharing companies and said he «completely understands» where the taxi cab companies are coming from.

David Plouffe, a former aide to Barack Obama now working for the ride - sharing company, has claimed de Blasio is simply thwarting its progress because he received campaign contributions from taxi medallion owners, who have warily watched the number of Uber drivers eclipse their own ranks.

PLATTSBURGH Following a string of requests from the owner of a local cab company, the Plattsburgh Common Council has imposed a new fare limit that will allow taxi companies in the city to charge $ 1.50 more per ride.

State lawmakers have come under heavy lobbying from taxi industry associations and companies who oppose allowing Uber and Lyft to expand Upstate and compete with them.

Johnson created a new committee dedicated specifically to for - hire vehicles like Uber and Lyft — and gave its chairmanship to Ruben Diaz Sr., who got at least $ 11,800 in campaign contribution from employees and owners of taxi, limousine and dispatch companies for his election last year.

In March, deputy county executives from Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester counties wrote a letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders asking that in these counties — which have established Taxi & Limousine Commissions — those commissions should have the authority to regulate ride - hailing companies.

Desai said she also fears that taxi drivers, who are struggling to make money under stiff competition from ride app companies like Uber and Lyft, will lose more money because of the new law.

Boeing is working on a crew capsule of its own, called the CST - 100, with a view to winning space taxi business not only from NASA but from Las Vegas company Bigelow Aerospace too.

Instead, the new plan would put billions towards helping private companies develop their own rockets and spacecraft, which could then serve as taxis to take astronauts to and from the International Space Station.

So whenever I think wistfully back to walking the streets of Boston, taxis honking as I meander in front of their impatient headlights, feeling the pulse of the city and the energy breathed into each step, I have this Chicwish Neon Light Pleated Midi Skirt to keep me company and remind me I am never too far from the bright lights.

A Raleigh taxi driver is claiming that some cab drivers could go on strike this New Year's Eve to protest what they consider to be unfair competition from ride - sharing companies.

This notice sets forth the procedure to seek an air taxi operator exemption to hold economic authority from the Department of Transportation for companies proposing to engage in certain air transportation operations with unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).

Retrieved March 23, 2017 from http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/21/14687346/uber-self-driving-car-arizona-pilot-ducey-california Other companies have or soon plan on having automated vehicles provide taxi services in select locations or as delivery vehicles.

Far more chilling are the references to death squads ordering pizza deliveries and taxis from unwitting companies located across the sectarian dividing lines.

Venture miles can be applied to purchases made from airlines, hotels, rail lines, car rental companies, limousine services, buses, cruise lines, taxis, travel agents and time shares.

There are a few taxi companies that can drive you from the Kahului airport to Kalama Terrace and back.

There are two separate water taxi companies that have regular service between Ambergris Caye and Chetumal.  ItÂ's critical to know which one you have tickets for. One leaves from the front of the island, at 7:15 AM. The other leaves from the back of the island, at 8 AM. For more info, click on San Pedro Water Jets Express and San Pedro Belize Water ExpressÂ... Note that Water Jets Express is the authorized agent for ADO bus service to Cancun.

If you do not wish to hire a rent a car from Palm Cove or from Cairns airport, the local bus company Sunbus runs a service every hour into Cairns city that costs approximately $ 6.50 each way and you can then catch a taxi from Cairns city to the Cairns airport.

There are two water taxi companies operating from Belize City — San Pedro Belize Express & Caye Caulker Water Ttaxi companies operating from Belize City — San Pedro Belize Express & Caye Caulker Water TaxiTaxi.

Account holders can earn up to $ 325 every cardmember year in automatic statement credits for travel purchases made directly from airlines, hotels, car rental companies, taxis, limousines, passenger trains and cruise lines.

How much would it cost me to get a taxi from Faro airport to the hotel compared to using your companies transfer?

On Thursday, after the breakfast buffet and a few cups of strong coffee onboad of Tallink Romantika, me and my company for the day, Annika, Jennifer, Otto and Helena, stepped ashore in a snow - covered Riga where a taxi and our local guide Laura from Jūrmala Tourism was waiting for us.

There are a dozen speed - boat companies that make the 90 - minute voyage twice a day from Padangbai, Bali, to the island, for $ 60 each way, and fishing - boat taxis to the other islands cost around $ 20.

If you have limited time, then from the San Jose airport, take a taxi to the Delio Morales bus company (every taxi driver will know what that means).

Automatic statement credit (s) totaling up to $ 325 will be applied to your Account when a Card is used for purchases made directly from airlines, hotels, car rental companies, taxis, limousines, passenger trains and cruise lines.

- Agreements with shipping companies for the day trips to the other islands - Customer care for advice and bookings of transfers to / from the Aeolian Islands (flights, buses, taxis, trains, ferries, airports nearest airport)

You'll also receive up to $ 325 in annual travel credits that can be used for purchases made directly from airlines, hotels, car rental companies, taxis, limousines, passenger trains and cruise lines.