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Entries from SFist tagged with 'taxi'

November 14, 2008

With three women in the back, a Town Cab cabbie was injured at around 1:45 a.m. this morning after brick crashed through his windshield as he was emerging from the Broadway tunnel. The brick came through the windshield smacking the guy in the shoulder. No arrests have been made. The attack is under investigation. Also: Ouch. (KTVU)......

Continue Reading "Taxi Driver Hurt in Early Morning Brick Attack"

July 10, 2008

Did you know that the Taxi Commission is going to be transferring their duties over to the SFMTA (the blob that runs Muni, parking meters, traffic lights, and stuff like that)? By consolidating all of SF's ground transportation under one agency, the MTA can ensure that all trips throughout the city are slow, unreliable, and involve a minimum of 75% surliness. (SF's taxi-surliness index is currently hovering just under 60%.) Of course the real......

Continue Reading "Know-It-Alls Form Taxi Group, Formulate Plan to Claim Vague Accomplishments"

July 8, 2008

Dear SF Cabs: We hate you. But, like, we hate-hate you. We hate you to death. For reals. Why? Because in addition to never having change for a $20, charging too much for a ride from Van Ness and Market to Third and Market, childishly going on strike whenever the city dares to bring in more, much-needed cabs, and for this, you now want to "charge a $1 per passenger fee to offset rising......

Continue Reading "A Breakup Letter to SF Cabbies & Cab Companies"

March 28, 2008

In some four-day old news that managed to limbo under our radar, two cabbies (allegedly) racing with one another down Fulton Street on Monday night crashed into parked cars at around 11 p.m. Lovely. According to KTVU:...

Continue Reading "Racing Taxicabs Crash Into Parked Cars"

February 4, 2008

Over on KQED's food blog, Stephanie Lucianovic writes about her spoiled fine-dining engagements due to San Francisco's crippling taxicab companies, which fail to pickup/deliver in a timely fashion. This tardiness, you see, can cancel a reservation. Also, according to her: For us, the worst cab offenders have been Luxor and Yellow Cab. They're both equally horrible, and by the time we finally weaned ourselves off of both companies, we had lost count how many......

Continue Reading "Taxicabs Ruining Suppertime All Over SF"

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