Sentences with phrase «when taxi drivers»

This can be overlooked, however, when taxi drivers rush between fares, look for new passengers striving to make enough money to cover the cost of the cab on their shift, and to make a little profit..

So don't be surprised when your taxi driver recommends a favorite spot for conch salad, or your concierge encourages you to visit the out - island where she grew up.

Turk told me that when a taxi driver had said to him he wanted to buy art but didn't know how to go about it, he had advised him: «Buy a copy of Time Out and see a lot of art.»

Four years ago a cyclist lost his leg when a taxi driver reversed and squished him into a post.

Four years ago TreeHugger covered the story of Toronto cyclist Chris Kasztelewicz, who lost his leg when a taxi driver purposely reversed into him, crushing him between the cab and a lamp post.

This way, you'll have the assurance of knowing when a taxi driver is taking you on the scenic route or by the most direct route.

History records the first drunk driving arrest on Sept 10, 1897 when a taxi driver crashed his car into the side of a building while under the influence of alcohol.

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When you hail a ride with Arro, taxi drivers nearby see your name and location.

Uber, which allows users to book and pay for a taxi by smartphone, says its more than 30,000 London drivers enjoy the flexibility of being able to work when they choose and receive on average more than the minimum wage.

London just celebrated its first anniversary and when they launched, they started with 600 taxi drivers.

When Roberts was weighing an offer for Sky, a trip to see Sky's products in store, and the knowledge of the London taxi driver that took him there, helped to make up his mind.

The «Goodfellas» and «Taxi Driver» legend showed he has refined tastes when he invested, with two others, in acclaimed chef Nobuyuki Matsuhisa, mastermind of Nobu.

Regulator Transport for London last Friday deemed Uber unfit to run a taxi service and decided not to renew its license to operate when it expires on Sept. 30, citing the firm's approach to reporting serious criminal offenses and background checks on drivers.

Permitted drivers, such as taxi and limo drivers, must wait in a holding area and pay airport fees when they enter the airport.

What made Uber such a valuable company when it began, in 2009, was that its founders figured out an ingenious way to connect drivers and passengers more efficiently (using a smartphone app) than taxi dispatchers (who used telephones) ever had.

More recently, the state backed down when it agreed not to force Uber and Lyft to conduct the same security checks on its drivers that are required of taxi companies.

When longstanding professions like taxi drivers and truckers get «disrupted,» it's seen as the march of progress.

When equity crowdfunding was mentioned, the taxi driver disclosed he had invested in more than one company via a crowdfunding platform.

It did have a short - lived benefit in January when more than 200,000 people deleted their Uber accounts, because many unfairly accused the company of attempting to profit off the backs of taxi drivers protesting President Donald Trump's travel ban.

For example, I can recall one instance when I traveled to Mexico for a friend's wedding, and one of my friends asked the taxi driver for the identity of the singer on the radio.

When I was in Eygpt my taxi driver said he and his wife had 10 children along with the rest of their extended family.

When I get into taxi I do not ask what church taxi driver goes to and what are his / her views on abortion.

When a New York taxi driver learned she was from Japan, he said: «You folks had better all repent over there.

«We began by discussing the old Times Square depicted in great movies like Midnight Cowboy and Taxi Driver from the 70's, a time when NYC was grittier, sassier, and creatively exploding.

When regular Jordan driver Bertrand Gachot was imprisoned for spraying a taxi driver with tear gas, Schumacher was called up as his replacement and made a serious first impression.

The 24 year - old is no stranger to altercations with his boss, having been caught out smoking on three separate occasions, as well as having spat on a taxi driver who had refused to take him home when he was intoxicated.

On the safety front, we didn't take car seats, and found (from our experiences in taxis without the kids) that the taxi drivers seemed to drive much more carefully when we had the kids in the back with us.

«When I breastfed in the back of taxis, drivers would give me the thumbs - up in the rearview mirror and assure me that Calum would grow up to be a great wrestler.»

At 1 p.m., NYC Councilman Andy King and NYC Taxi and Limousine Commissioner Meera Joshi announce submitted legislation to ensure safety for TLC drivers when confronted with an emergency, The Ultimate Grill Restaurant, 1345 E. Gun Hill Road, Bronx.

A Manhattan Supreme Court judge has ruled that the Bloomberg administration overstepped its bounds when it created a fund to help taxi drivers navigate the Affordable Care Act and provide support to disabled cabbies, an act that she found is more rightly, «a function for the legislature.»

MANHATTAN — Crooked cabbies came under the cross hairs Wednesday when the City Council green - lit a set of laws to track taxi drivers» every turn to ensure passengers are not taken for a ride.

When Kim Howells admitted 10 years ago, that he'd sent the miners to the bridge, who threw the brick off that Killed Taxi driver David wilkie, and then on hearing it happened, he went back to his office shgredded evidence who was there, maybe Labour Shadow cabinet ministers should apologise, for that cover up,

One of the eyewitnesses, Lanre Agunla, told newsmen at the accident scene that the vehicle was coming from Lagos end of the Lagos - Ibadan Expressway, taking the New Garage entrance to Ibadan when the driver suddenly lost control and crashed into the taxi.

Both men have linked to pay - to - play scandals in New York City and federal investigators recently questioned the businessmen's ties to Astorino when questioning Fernando Mateo of the New York Federation of Taxi Drivers.

Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni who confirmed the incident to newsmen at the Lagos Government Secretariat, Alausa, Lagos, stated that Momoh was in a taxi heading towards Oworonshoki on Third Mainland Bridge when she told the taxi driver to stop on the bridge.

«Like many others, we were utterly confounded when we thought they actually meant giving full anonymity, including through the trial - which, among other things, would mean repeat rapists like the taxi driver John Worboys were less likely to be caught.

«When yellow and green cab drivers get paid by cash, they have to move around to complete the transaction,» said New York Taxi Workers Alliance Executive Director Bhairavi Desai.

When it does rain, the capital city of Dakar empties out as tailors and taxi drivers, bureaucrats and teachers head to their villages to plant.

Thats the rule in cities like Paris and Milan and is practiced a lot during fashion week, or crazy week as most of our taxi drivers discribed in when we explained why we were in town.

It reviews the experiences of Kawamura, a 65 year taxi driver in Japan, when he decided to try out online dating to find someone to share what he calls his «second life».

Paul Schrader has always been an amazingly protean filmmaker — going all the way back to the late»70s, when the fabled screenwriter of «Taxi Driver» first stepped behind the camera, leaping from «Blue Collar» to «American Gigolo,» from «Cat People» to «Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters,» from «Affliction» to «Auto Focus,» from «Dominion: -LSB-...]

Paul Schrader has always been an amazingly protean filmmaker — going all the way back to the late»70s, when the fabled screenwriter of «Taxi Driver» first stepped behind the camera, leaping from «Blue Collar» to «American Gigolo,» from «Cat People» to «Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters,» from «Affliction» to «Auto Focus,» from «Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist» to «The Canyons.»

When Robert De Niro's Travis Bickle referred to himself in Taxi Driver as «God's lonely man,» he wasn't just indulging in sociopathic self - pity, he was defining a self - projected outsider archetype that would return time and again in Schrader's scripts.

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When he was lonely and struggling to find his way into LA, Paul Schrader wrote «Taxi Driver.»

Taxi Driver was the movie that introduced me to Scorsese way back when, so it wins on the «first love» principle.

Taxi Driver has been so effective in immersing us in Travis Bickle's singular, interior isolation, I think most of our memories of the film — its most famous images — are of his loneliness, when, in reality, the film is full of wonderful supporting characters (Peter Boyle as Wizard, and even Scorsese himself).

When Joe rescues the daughter (Ekaterina Samsonov) of a politician, the scene visually evokes «Taxi Driver» because of the girl's youth and blond hair.

Taxi Driver No longer streaming on Netflix Year: 1976 Director: Martin Scorsese Taxi Driver was Scorsese's breakthrough: a seething condemnation of alienation — not to mention New York's descent in the 1970s into a crime - ridden hellscape — delivered with such clinical coldness that when Scorsese's star (and longtime collaborator) Robert De Niro finally explodes, it's unspeakably upsetting.

This begins to change, however, when Ahmad, a taxi driver, falls in love with Kinar (Ratu Felisha), a prostitute.