Sentences with phrase «taxi companies which»

It's signed up 3,000 private hire taxi drivers by simply acquiring a taxi company which already holds a licence, City Drive Services.

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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 change marks yet another victory for the company in conquering what the New York Times in May referred to as the «last frontier» for the ridesharing company: airports, which have remained a stronghold for the taxi industry.

Blade added that Colony will be helping to identify future potential landing sites for eVTOLs, or flying taxis, which both companies see as an important foundation for future transportation initiatives.

Other companies are studying the economics of using automated driving systems to replace human drivers in taxi or ride - hailing services, including Uber Technologies (uber) and Lyft (lyft), which is collaborating with General Motors (gm).

Uber's lawyers are arguing that the company merely connects riders with drivers (unlike a taxi company, which actually employs the drivers) and that the local laws were never designed with our modern day app - centric world in mind.

Additionally, Herndon supported competition between Uber and the taxi companies operating in Las Vegas, which is a part of Clark County.

Now, Aurora is coming out of stealth to announce that it is working with Volkswagen and Hyundai to build each of these companies a fleet of robot taxis, which it refers to as Mobility - as - a-Service (MaaS).

Companies like Uber and Lyft, which have created ride - hailing smartphone applications, are fighting long - entrenched incumbents in the taxi and limousine industry.

Metro Vancouver has the lowest number of taxies per capita of any major Canadian city, and significantly higher prices compared to similar cities.89 However, taxi companies continue to face strict, burdensome regulations which hamper their own ability to offer more efficient and innovative services.

It started with a social media campaign to #deleteUber over claims that the company attempted to profit off the backs of protesting taxi drivers — largely unfair but which caused more than 200,000 users to abandon the app.

By the way, Uber is the largest taxi company, but it has no cars, same as Alibaba which is the largest retailer, but it has no stores.

Of which the «Big Bar Owner» in town also owns multiple bars downtown and campus AND the taxi company.

It also allowed them to call an emergency taxi when they are going into labor, which allows them to get priority in the company's «people waiting for taxis» line.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone already has said he'd allow ride - sharing, which has shifted the focus of proponents and opponents (primarily taxi companies) to Nassau.

Five of the six recommendations for making those early mass transit improvements rely in whole or in part on New York City: overhauling the city's parking placard system, which de Blasio has expanded; improving traffic enforcement in New York City, which his NYPD controls; reforming the city system that governs taxis and for - hire companies like Uber; assessing the impact of bus congestion on the central business district; and identifying transit improvements in the outer boroughs.

Both Uber and Lyft have conducted an extensive public lobbying campaign over the last year to expand services, especially in upstate cities like Buffalo, which is being countered by an effort to block the measure by upstate taxi and livery companies.

The Upstate Transportation Association, which represents taxi companies, spent $ 10,000 over the same period; the Black Car Fund spent $ 25,000 on lobbyists; the Committee for Taxi Safety spent $ 53,000; the Taxicab Service Association spent $ 16,000 and the Metropolitan Taxicab Board of Trade spent $ 16,taxi companies, spent $ 10,000 over the same period; the Black Car Fund spent $ 25,000 on lobbyists; the Committee for Taxi Safety spent $ 53,000; the Taxicab Service Association spent $ 16,000 and the Metropolitan Taxicab Board of Trade spent $ 16,Taxi Safety spent $ 53,000; the Taxicab Service Association spent $ 16,000 and the Metropolitan Taxicab Board of Trade spent $ 16,000.

Opponents, including existing taxi and livery interests, say ride - hailing companies will erode existing full - time jobs and skirt necessary regulations with which they comply.

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 services).

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.

«They're a marketing monster,» said Bhairavi Desai, the founder of the Taxi Workers Alliance, which sided with de Blasio against a company she believes is undermining her members» profession.

SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, headed by PayPal co-founder Elon Musk, has been in the spotlight with recent test flights of its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon space capsule, which the company hopes to use to run a space taxi service for NASA astronauts to the ISS (New Scientist, 18 December 2010, p 12).

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.

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.

The bus company is called MEPE, which most taxi drivers know.

And even if they don't drop their prices, perhaps local taxi commissions will take a leaf from the car sharing book and incorporate more convenient technology into the hailing process — which black car companies are starting to do.

The taxi boats between Jaco and Montezuma, which are very fast speedboats holding 10 - 29 people, depending on the boat and the company, are a great way to get from the southern Nicoya Peninsul...

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I usually describe cycling in Toronto as life in the Fedex Lane but it appears that it should have a new name, the Beck Lane, after Toronto's biggest taxi company, which appears to have taken over the bike lanes as their own dedicated parking areas.

Because it has fewer moving parts the taxi is expected to have lower maintenance and running costs than a conventional one, while retailing at approximately the same price, which will incentivise taxi companies to buy the new vehicle.

To justify this, both companies argued they merely provided a platform through which individuals could further their own businesses: Uber by identifying taxi customers and Deliveroo by providing fast food delivery customers.

Now with more companies providing taxi - like transportation services, such as Uber and Lyft, there has been an increase in the number of taxi crashes across the country which can seriously injure passengers and / or pedestrians.

Which is good news for drivers, passengers, and pedestrians, but not so much for the bottom line of emergency rooms, highway patrol officers, chauffeurs and taxi drivers, insurance claim adjusters and the companies they work for, and most importantly — at least as far as this readership is concerned — personal injury lawyers.

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Many new age taxi companies such as Uber and Lyft offer carpool options, which are significantly cheaper than regular fares.

Black taxi drivers» gripes with Uber include the fact that the cab - hailing company, which connects passengers with drivers via a smartphone app, appears to ply for hire by having available cars visible on the app and operates a metred pay system, which are both banned for private hire vehicles.

In that respect, taxi companies in Singapore — which allow booking by SMS and phone call, and also offer ride - hailing apps in some cases — may be considered competition which might water down Grab's market share.

The money will help in the development of the company's air taxi prototype, which, according to a report in Bloomberg, has been conducting test flights at Joby's private airfield in Northern California.

Many of Uber's opponents in the UK insist that the company's business model is exploitative in nature and only allows it to beat its competitors by not providing its drivers with fair benefits, which is a notion that the tech giant repeatedly denied, insisting that it's not a traditional taxi service.

Tested taxis at the warehouse and performed routine maintenance in house, which ended up saving the company over $ 3,000 in repair costs annually.