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- Protest over, for today. PG taxi drivers and AFL-CIO’s @NYTWA say they’ll be back outside Gaylord hotel Friday, and it’ll be bigger. 50 mins ago
- Lt. Keleti says some roads at Nat’l Harbor are public, some private. Same w/ sidewalks. And county attorneys are now researching specifics. 1 hour ago
- Looks like NBC4 is circumventing the (illegitimate?) restriction on filming at National Harbor by interviewing a cabbie as she drives around 2 hours ago
- NBC4 has been told they can’t shoot at National Harbor b/c all of it’s private, including roads and sidewalks. (Which isn’t the case.) 2 hours ago
- The competition is unfair, say drivers. Veolia’s cars wait in front of hotel while taxis are hidden on 3rd floor of parking garage. 2 hours ago
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- The Taxi Link: Aurora Vasquez discusses driver organizing in Prince George’s, Alexandria and Arlington
- The Taxi Link: Driver killed; Council wants data; taxi commission doesn’t have any
- The Taxi Link: National Harbor fight heats up; DC taxi chair apologizes for disparaging two drivers
- The Taxi Link: DC drivers suspended without due process? PG drivers fight to stay at National Harbor
- The Taxi Link: Are drivers at National Harbor being pushed out? Should Alexandria drivers choose their own company?
Category Archives: Taxicab
Uber right-wing
Download mp3 Testifying last week before the D.C. Council, 35-year-old Uber CEO Travis Kalanick routinely interrupted councilmembers and espoused a right-wing ideology. Uber is not so much a luxury sedan service as a phone app that connects passengers with black … Continue reading
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Uber showdown Monday at the Council
Listen to Sept. 22 edition of The Taxi Link on WUST 1120 AM Download mp3 “Uber is having it both ways: they’re operating as a taxi, they’re operating as a limousine service, and they’re not regulated.” – Tony Norman, co-host … Continue reading
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Taken for a ride: press coverage of D.C.’s taxi industry is unfair to public and drivers
The Taxi Link airs on WUST 1120 AM. Listen to Sept. 15 show here: Download mp3 “You have one media person interviewing another media person who shares the same biased opinion.” – Tony Norman, co-host of The Taxi Link “I … Continue reading
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Is classism behind D.C.’s push to regulate taxis, not Uber?
The Taxi Link airs on WUST 1120 AM. Listen to the Sept. 8 show here: Download mp3 “Uber is a classic example of… class economic warfare,” said Tony Norman, a D.C. ANC commissioner and co-host with TheFightBack‘s Pete Tucker of … Continue reading
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VeriFone contract suspended
The Taxi Link airs on WUST 1120 AM. Listen to the Sept. 1 show here: Download mp3 “The District is hereby ordered to… suspend any further contract work,” Judge Monica Parchment of the Contract Appeals Board wrote in her decision … Continue reading
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D.C.’s very funny VeriFone contract
The Taxi Link airs on WUST 1120 AM. Listen to the Aug. 25th show here: Download mp3 “We’re not doing anything that is not legal,” D.C. Taxicab Commission chairman Ron Linton told TheFightBack at a press conference last week to announce the … Continue reading
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Taxi chair’s condescension
The Taxi Link airs on WUST 1120 AM. Listen to the Aug. 18 show here: Download mp3 “The regulators and the people that control this city, they have no respect for the taxicab drivers,” said Tony Norman, co-host of The … Continue reading
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DC’s Taxi “Kangaroo Court”
Listen to The Taxi Link, Aug. 11: Download mp3 “[I question] whether this is racial or not,” D.C. Taxicab Commission (DCTC) member Stanley Tapscott said after the commission’s meeting last week at which it approved increased fines for drivers and other changes to the regulatory code … Continue reading
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The Taxi Link, Aug. 4: The Lawsuit, the Media and the Mayor
download mp3 “They have waged a number of media campaigns against us,” D.C. cabbie Mechal Chame said of the local press corps. “We are not against the public interest.” Chame appeared on WUST 1120 AM’s The Taxi Link, which is sponsored … Continue reading
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The Taxi Link, July 28: Uber, Verifone and More
Listen to The Taxi Link: Download mp3 “Uber is the talk of the town these days,” taxi leader Haimanot Bizuayehu said of the luxury sedan service that’s in 14 cities and operates in D.C. largely without regulation. “We don’t fear … Continue reading
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