Sentences with phrase «with taxi driver»

I just got arrested after an altercation with a taxi driver and they've given me one phone call.

ALWAYS CONFIRM THE PRICE WITH YOUR TAXI DRIVER BEFORE BEGINNING THE TRIP.

The staff bent over backwards to accommodate our desire to go to an obscure vegan restaurant, communicating with the taxi driver & restarants to ensure our safe & Happy experience.

If you're not driving, just agree a pick up time with your taxi driver, a couple of hours should be enough!

She stood on the top step of the porch, appraising the man's narrow fanny, which poked toward them as he finished his business with the taxi driver.

«When I first went to Cannes, with Taxi Driver, you did maybe 30 interviews over the course of the week, and you covered the world.

The non-stop Nicolas Cage has teamed up with TAXI DRIVER scribe Paul Schrader, who here writes and directs, for the first thriller of 2015...

He teams up with taxi driver Diane Kruger to find out what's going on, and into all this will come Langella as Cole, a colleague of Neeson's.

Hollywood actor Josh Brolin was involved in an altercation with a taxi driver after colliding with his car at a Los Angeles drive - through restaurant...

GONYEA: With the taxi driver - obviously, your most famous creation is that character, Travis Bickle, played by, of course, Robert De Niro, but many of your films have - while they have varied in subject matter, in a panel discussion following a screening this week of «First Reformed,» you talked about how you keep returning to, kind of, a version of Travis Bickle's character.

I was looking a list of all his films on IMDB and it was a tough choice but I have to go with Taxi Driver.

On 13th March 2007, he was arrested on suspicion of criminal assault and criminal damage after an alleged argument with a taxi driver in Liverpool as he went to his hotel after a match.

And two - thirds of respondents are okay with taxi driver and call center jobs being lost if it means access to better transportation and customer service.

While people like ordering a ride with a mobile app and not needing to pay in cash, other critics charge ride - hailing start - ups unfairly compete with taxi drivers by entering their markets without following regulations or fare schedules.

As was the case with taxi drivers fighting Uber, these disruptors are not going away.

«They should have stood in solidarity with the taxi drivers and immigrants,» New York Senator Michael Gianaris told Recode.

A common denominator needs to be found with the taxi drivers on how things should be regulated, he added.

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.

in Russian, the numbers to 1000 so you can haggle with taxi drivers and the cyrillic alphabet so you can read road signs.

This now infamous Pakistani canteen in Satwa is crammed with taxi drivers and expats, eager for Ravi's delicious dishes of mutton achar and flavorful... Read More

I wanted to be able to confidently order my ropa vieja and eloquently argue with taxi drivers who were trying to take advantage of us.

Bangkok can be a difficult city to navigate for independent travelers, but if you familiarize yourself with the train and boat system, and choose a hotel near them, then you'll easily make your way around the city's sights on your own, without having to deal with taxi drivers who don't speak English or tuk - tuks who try to scam you.

It's just an extension of when you leave the airport with the taxi drivers hounding you.

They have an agreement with the taxi drivers and the price to the airport is fixed - 175000.

For more information, we recommend asking for reference prices at the Iperú offices before negotiating with taxi drivers.

Not exact matches

If you're going to be doing driving of any kind, whether it's transporting horses or driving a taxi or getting behind the wheel of an 18 - wheeler, it all starts with a valid driver's license, preferably in the state in which you plan to conduct business.

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.

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

Italian taxi drivers have been militant in their agitation against Uber, engaging in coordinated national strikes, advocating for new regulations, and on occasion refusing even to meet with Uber representatives to work towards compromise.

We write with the souls of thousands of lives saved, the lives of millions of jobs created liberating multitudes of drivers from the shackles of servitude to iniquitous taxi cartels of corrupt cabals that choked cities with their pollution of air and morals.

Offers ride - hailing and taxi hailing services by connecting drivers with corporate and private passengers through the use of an app.

With «robo - taxis» being tested without drivers in cities around the world, you knew it would only be a matter of time until someone suggested a commercial airplane could fly without a pilot.

It's almost like we need robots to act like that robot taxi driver in the first Total Recall movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger, a bit edgy and unpredictable.

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.

Hailo, however, tried to forge better relations with drivers and obtained a taxi license wherever it operated.

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

She was known for being brash and outspoken, described in the pages of TIME as «truculent and courageous,» with a New York City accent Norman Mailer said «could boil the fat off a taxi driver's neck.»

Uber uses technology to drive down the cost of labor by replacing a regulated, protected class of worker (in this case, taxi drivers) with a non-protected worker (in this case, anyone with a driver's license and decent car).

* CEO Roberts learned «a lot» from London taxi driver (Rewrites with Comcast strategy, background on Brian Roberts)

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.

Though Judge Chen didn't appear to fully buy into the argument, it does stay in line with Uber's long - standing claims that it's not a taxi company, merely a «technology platform» enabling drivers and passengers to connect.

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).

Dublanica spends time with restaurant and hotel staff, bathroom attendants and taxi drivers, delivery men and strippers, examining what tipping means to their bottom lines.

While it would in theory allow it to hire more drivers including applicants it previously rejected, and therefore continue to compete with taxis and rival Lyft, the company told the Journal that it would only affect a small number of applicants.

Then Uber took that ingenuity further and made it possible for anyone with access to a car to become a taxi driver, using that same app mentality.

If the software allows [drivers] to take up driving jobs with less downtime, it should make them more productive than traditional taxi drivers because the access has improved.

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.

«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.

Yet more affluent and cosmopolitan Chinese have flocked to Uber's service, attracted by fares that are on average at least 35 percent cheaper than taxis, with the cars generally more luxurious than cabs and drivers who offer free water and are typically more polite.

A version of this article appears in print on January 15, 2015, on Page A4 of the New York edition with the headline: Strikes by Taxi Drivers Spread Across China.