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Category Archives: Taxicab
The Taxi Link returns to the air
Listen to The Taxi Link here: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] The Taxi Link – which is sponsored by The Small Business Association of DC Taxicab Drivers (SBA) and hosted by TheFightBack’s Pete Tucker and D.C. advisory neighborhood … Continue reading
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Uber right-wing
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] 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 … 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 [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download mp3 “Uber is having it both ways: they’re operating as a taxi, they’re operating as a limousine service, and … 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: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download mp3 “You have one media person interviewing another media person who shares the same biased opinion.” – Tony … 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: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download mp3 “Uber is a classic example of… class economic warfare,” said Tony Norman, a D.C. ANC commissioner … Continue reading
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VeriFone contract suspended
The Taxi Link airs on WUST 1120 AM. Listen to the Sept. 1 show here: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download mp3 “The District is hereby ordered to… suspend any further contract work,” Judge Monica Parchment of the … 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: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download mp3 “We’re not doing anything that is not legal,” D.C. Taxicab Commission chairman Ron Linton told TheFightBack at a … 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: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download mp3 “The regulators and the people that control this city, they have no respect for the taxicab … Continue reading
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DC’s Taxi “Kangaroo Court”
Listen to The Taxi Link, Aug. 11: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] 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 … Continue reading
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The Taxi Link, Aug. 4: The Lawsuit, the Media and the Mayor
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] 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 … Continue reading
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