Sentences with phrase «of hailing a cab»

The new rules are meant to address the difficulty of hailing cabs in the outer boroughs.

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By downloading the Uber app, users can hail a cab from a list of registered drivers who are near their locations.

One of the first to market was San Francisco — based Uber, which lets users virtually hail available cab and limo drivers with the touch of a button, via their phone's GPS.

Only cab - hailing apps Uber and Didi Chuxing and Chinese handset maker Xiaomi are ahead of it.

Bhavish Aggarwal and Ankit Bhati, co-founders of cab - hailing app Ola; Binny Bansal, co-founder and group chief executive of e-commerce firm Flipkart; Kunal Shah, founder of mobile wallet firm FreeCharge; and Manish Patel, founder and CEO of payment solutions firm Mswipe, have also participated in the round.

Homegrown cab - hailing major Ola has acquired Ridlr, a public - transport ticketing app, for an undisclosed sum, amid growing rivalry with foreign peer Uber to get a bigger share of the Indian market.

Earlier this month, Business Standard reported that Ola was accused of commercial espionage by a local Sri Lankan cab - hailing firm PickMe, which runs the largest cab service in the island nation.

However, it appears that both cab - hailing firms did not anticipate the impact of reduced incentives and earnings.

In 2008 a pair of young entrepreneurs named Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp had trouble hailing a cab in Paris.

Homegrown cab - hailing major Ola has announced Mission Electric, a programme to launch 10,000 electric vehicles, most of them three - wheelers,...

Travis Kalanick, the controversial founder of cab - hailing firm Uber Technologies Inc., is setting up an investment fund that will invest in India and China.

I wondered how he got home until I saw one of the other dancers that knew him well hail a cab for him outside.

All of these places are pretty centrally located, close to many great New York hotels, so cab rides likely won't be necessary unless you really want to teach the kids to hail one down.

Governor Cuomo said on Wednesday that he planned to veto Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's proposal to allow livery cabs to pick up street hails and start from scratch because of a number of issues.

Into this breach stepped / was pushed AM Micah Kellner, who offered as a kind of minor Great Compromise his Access - for - All bill which would mandate expanded accessibility for yellow cabs and livery cabs, and would allow for a greatly - reduced 6,000 livery street hail medallions.

With expanding ride hailing on the docket for a potential special session this month, a consortium of traditional livery and cab companies have launched an anti-Uber digital ad that highlights the crimes committed by drivers.

State Sen. Chris Jacobs, R - Buffalo, said he sees plenty of room for ride - hailing services to co-exist with independent cabs.

Green is the new yellow, if you're only accustomed to hailing cabs of a lemon - colored hue.

Yesterday was a day of highs and lows for people hoping to drive for a living in Western New York, as ride - hailing apps such as Uber and Lyft went live in upstate New York, while veteran cab drivers braced for a major shakeup.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced in his State of the City speech in January he would propose legislation to allow livery cabs in the outer boroughs to pick up people hailing on the street — prohibited under current law.

The new outer - borough cabs, which would be equipped with meters, lights and GPS systems, would be allowed to pick up street hails outside of Manhattan and the airports, but would not be allowed to provide dispatch services.

CAB SAFETY — «Proposed NYC Law Would Create A Public Database Of Ride - Hail Sexual Assault Reports,» by Buzzfeed News» Charlie Warzel: «New York City Council Member Dan Garodnick will introduce a bill [Thursday] to create a public record of all sexual assault and harassment incidents that happen inside vehicles operated by New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission - licensed companies and owners (which include Uber, Lyft, and other ride - hail servicesOf Ride - Hail Sexual Assault Reports,» by Buzzfeed News» Charlie Warzel: «New York City Council Member Dan Garodnick will introduce a bill [Thursday] to create a public record of all sexual assault and harassment incidents that happen inside vehicles operated by New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission - licensed companies and owners (which include Uber, Lyft, and other ride - hail servicesof all sexual assault and harassment incidents that happen inside vehicles operated by New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission - licensed companies and owners (which include Uber, Lyft, and other ride - hail services).

Advocates of a bill to allow livery cab drivers to pick up street hails in Upper Manhattan are clamoring for Gov. Andrew Cuomo's support.

The state Assembly has put forward a congestion pricing plan as part of its budget that includes a $ 2.75 fee for ride hail cars, limousines and black cars for each trip below 96th Street, $ 1 for trips above 96th Street and a 50 - cent fee for yellow taxis and green cab street hails below 96th Street.

He then launched into a list of what he called political victories for the Bronx: half - a-billion dollars worth of housing construction during the recession, a recent education summit and a new law that allows outer borough residents to hail livery cabs.

A town hall held by state Sen. Jose Peralta (D - East Elmhurst) on the bill to bring livery cabs that can be hailed to the outer boroughs erupted into impassioned statements and heated arguments, mostly in Spanish, from industry members on separate sides of the plan.

A State Supreme Court justice on Friday blocked the Bloomberg administration's plan to create a new class of livery cabs, a setback in the city's effort to expand street hail service beyond Manhattan.

In return, the pols protect the medallion owners» monopoly on street hails and hold down the supply of cabs, even if it means stranding riders in rainstorms.

Wisely or not, the city sold exclusive rights to pick up street - hail passengers in order to thin out a herd of cabs whose competition had grown cutthroat (sometimes literally).

I wanted this shoot to capture the essence of NYC street style, so I posed next to a Citibike and hailed some cabs.

Whether you're looking for boots that will get you through three - foot drifts or help you hail a cab without losing your toes to frostbite, you can pull this whole winter look off and still maintain your sense of style.

It was a comedy of errors — we went on the wrong train after many failed attempts to hail a cab, missed empty cabs on the other side of the street, and ended up walking back to the hotel an hour and a half later only to catch a cab a few blocks away.

Last day of NYFW and between hailing cabs, running to show room visits and PR meetings, sneaker wedges and a hat totally does the trick!

Whether you are lounging on a yacht in the South of France or hailing a cab in bustling New York, who could say no to an adorable stylish stripe?

It's one of those perfect jackets — the cape gives you the «jacket over your shoulders» effect but it's not falling off every time you hail a cab or hug a friend.

From there we see all the obvious benefits of white male privilege — the ability to hail any cab, boys» night invites, acceptable weight gain, easy orgasms — and the ones we barely acknowledge.

I feel very Sex & the City in this stripes / / pleated skirt outfit... Like I'm Carrie Bradshaw trying to hail a cab on the busy streets of New York.

As we can already guess the ultimate guy for Mo, the rest is merely a plot that idles in its own set paces, with a plethora of scenes of Montana running maniacally, waving her arms around as she stomps forward in high heels through airports, trying to stop airline personnel from closing gates, or trying to hail cabs just in the nick of time.

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One of the really cool things about being in Germany is that when you hail a cab, you're flagging down something that's more than a taxi; more often than not, what you're getting is a Mercedes.

And eBay bought Braintree, a payment processor used by startups such as vacation rentals site Airbnb and cab - hailing app Uber, a year ago for about $ 800 million and will be part of the PayPal unit.

After the show concluded, we hailed a cab and the driver pushed a button, automatically opening the back door, and we quickly found ourselves back in an oasis of solitude, the bright lights of the city's signs reflecting past us on the car's windows as we slipped away, back into the quiet area we were calling home.

Head downtown on the A or C train (or hail a cab) for dinner at Saraghina, a craft - pizza spot in the booming brownstone neighborhood of Bed - Stuy.

Perhaps the only thing that attracts me more than a hipster girl reading a book alone at the edge of a dive bar is a traveling girl with a craze for throwing her essentials into an oversized pack, hailing a cab, catching a plane and throwing her hot self to some far - flung corner of the world.

At the end of the day Belize Blood Services pack up their supplies and cooler of blood and we hail them a cab to the San Pedro Airport.

However, it just boils down to flailing your arms around in front of the telly like a drunk hailing a cab.

Xbox owners shouldn't be hailing this cab in a hurry — no matter how much they loved the trip back in the day and you'll find very little reason to ever go back to this after your first couple of plays.

However, by the end of the game, i.e. at the very last chapter, you gain the ability to hail a cab so as to travel between these two cities.

To address the surge in Uber and other ride - hail - app services, they also proposed adding per - mile and per - minute surcharges to fares for cabs and other for - hire vehicles in Manhattan south of 96th Street, which was intended to improve traffic flow in heavily congested business areas.

A lot of the passengers which might have used a pre-booked minicab probably choose to hail a Black Cab, because it is faster.