Sentences with phrase «in a taxi from»

I also lost my phone the moment I arrived in Lisboa in the taxi from the airport to my friend's appartment, but luckily I already have a new one so I can start posting again!

So remember, if you are in Peru and all hiked out, get yourselves to Huacachina, five minutes in a taxi from Ica, four hours south of Lima for some serious fun in the sun!

Wheeled suitcases are completely inappropriate for any kind of trip that isn't whisking you in a taxi from one 4 star resort to another.

The claimant had travelled back in a taxi from a night out with friends.

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TUSK: When they opened in New York, they almost immediately got a cease and desist letter from the Taxi and Limousine Commission.

That said, the real muscle behind the pushback stems from disenfranchised cab operators, who must comply with a complex web of regulations and shell out for insurance, vehicle maintenance and exorbitant licence fees: In Montreal, cab drivers pay around $ 200,000 for a taxi medallion.

Its profits and stock took a hit in 2016 and 2017, due to write - offs from a poorly timed earlier bet: Signature had become a major financier of permits for New York taxi drivers, just in time for the Uber era.

In Tarija, a taxi can take you from one end of the small city to the other for less than $ 2.

A recent study from ConsumerAffairs looks at the safety of Uber, Lyft and taxi cars in cities around the U.S.

You take down the drop, which is the initial fare you get charged when you get in a taxi, from $ 4.25 to $ 3.25.

Newly available data from the Taxi and Limousine Commission that was analyzed by the New York Daily News shows total trips in the first half of 2015 were down 10 percent to 77 million, compared to same period last year.

Uber drivers, for instance, have been shown to pick up riders in the whiter areas of DC more regularly — though to their credit, Uber drivers have also been picking up the slack left over from racist taxi drivers in what may or may not be a sincere social marketing ploy.

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.

An UberPOOL ride from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to the East Village in Manhattan which would cost $ 16 in a yellow taxi would cost as little as $ 7.50 with the carpooling alternative, according to fare estimates Uber released with the announcement.

London's transport regulator on Friday stripped Uber of its license to operate from the end of the month, affecting over 40,000 drivers in a huge blow to the taxi app.

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.

«However, Parisians also have a choice when it comes to moving around in their city, and today's incident certainly discourages Parisians from choosing a taxi for their next ride.»

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.

The New York Taxi Workers Alliance announced that there would be no pickup from JFK between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. in support of the protest.

Those marketshare numbers from Analysys include taxis, something Uber doesn't work with in China.

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.

12 % of those polled admitted to having to be put in a taxi home from work event for being too drunk, and 7 % had witnessed a fight at a work function.

These contracts are not only lucrative but historic, as Boeing and SpaceX will play a pivotal role in the future of manned space travel, by establishing what will essentially be a taxi service to and from low - Earth orbit and eliminating America's reliance on Russian Soyuz rockets.

Uber, which has been valued at more than $ 51 billion, is a comparative latecomer in China, where the number of mobile taxi - hailing app users is forecast to triple to 45 million by 2015 from 2013, according to Chinese research firm iResearch.

Long Beach, Calif., became the first major U.S. city to ease taxi regulations in the face of competition from ridesharing services.

Airlines lose $ 586 million, governments are down about $ 150 million in taxes and fees and lost revenue from hotels, parking, taxis, limos and airport purchases are conservatively about $ 90 million.

This shift took place amid staunch resistance from taxi incumbents in certain geographies.

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.

It leads to a more collaborative and less hierarchical society, since a CEO in civilian life may end up taking orders from a taxi driver in the service, as well as future business partnerships.

This would begin in 2020 with certain vehicle types, such as non-zero emission taxis, being banned from a «small number of streets.»

Uber has survived numerous taxi protests in cities around the world, and won a major concession from New York City officials in July who scrapped plans for a vote that could have limited the group's expansion.

It would take some bargain hunting to find better deals in this tropical town; when searching through the weekly coupons from Publix supermarket we uncovered a whole chicken from $ 1.29 per pound as compared to Grocery Taxi's $ 1.94 per pound, but a pound of green beans at Publix was only $ 0.10 cheaper than the Grocery Taxi price ($ 1.59 versus the Publix sale price of $ 1.49).

Miami ranked as the most expensive city in which to cook a meal at home, coming in at $ 22.66 from online retailer Grocery Taxi (grocerytaxi.com).

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Indeed, data from the New York taxi business suggest a modest impact in the United States.

«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.

The inducements from both sides are stirring resentment from taxi drivers, similar to what Uber has faced in other countries.

It's 75 percent in Paris, where taxis charge from the moment they're ordered to arrive, not just when they're actually shuttling passengers.

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.

In late May, Uber said it had created more than 60,000 jobs in China over the past month, with the spread of its service spurring protests from some taxi driverIn late May, Uber said it had created more than 60,000 jobs in China over the past month, with the spread of its service spurring protests from some taxi driverin China over the past month, with the spread of its service spurring protests from some taxi drivers.

The value of his New York City taxi medallion holdings plummeted due to competition from Uber and Lyft (the price dropped from $ 1.3 million apiece in 2014 to below $ 200,000).

Official taxis in Beijing from inside a car driven by an Uber driver.

In the first half of 2015, 97 % of customers who rode solo and paid by credit card took advantage of that option, leaving a median tip of $ 2, according to a Quartz analysis of data from the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission.

Uber faces stiff resistance from taxi and limousine interests in countries like Spain, Germany and Belgium, among others, and will probably need to spend heavily to market itself to win favor with locals.

Ola, India's largest taxi aggregator, has raised $ 330 million in fresh funding, at a valuation of about $ 3.5 billion, from Japanese investor SoftBank and two other existing ones.

Yellow taxis still account for more drop offs in Brooklyn, since many people continue to take taxis from Manhattan to Brooklyn, but even in drop offs, the green taxis are closing the gap.

Stepping out into the hot and humid Delhi night, everything looked the same but there was certainly a sense of change in the air: everyone from taxi drivers, to business people and politicians seem to feel a new confidence that India can now move forward.

Stepping out into the hot and humid Delhi night, everything looked the same but there was certainly a sense of change in the air: everyone from taxi drivers, to business people and politicians seem to feel a new confidence...

Bike taxis already exist in many of Southeast Asia's largest cities where they are popular options for cutting through congested streets and getting from A to B faster than four wheels.