taxicabs

Hailing cabs through smartphone apps is already in use in cities such as Chicago, San Francisco, and London, but a proposal to allow “e-hailing” in New York City’s yellow cabs has met with some resistance.

New Yorkers and tourists are a little closer to hailing taxis through smartphones and prepayment.

After clashing with taxi regulators, tech company Uber announced Tuesday it will shut down its yellow taxi hailing service, for now.

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The Taxi & Limousine Commission’s board of commissioners on Thursday approved the “Taxi of Tomorrow,” a Nissan model designed specifically for New York City.

Disabled New Yorkers have a notoriously difficult time with transit in the city, a problem the Taxi and Limousine Commission has sought to address with the unveiling of a new application and dispatch service.

Smartphone applications are building a culture of social media users who can use their phones to catch a cheap ride across the city to anywhere at any time.

...when we finally reached his vehicle—there was no taxi sign on it. It was someone’s personal car!

A public hearing Monday, by the entity in charge of regulating the taxi industry, will examine whether or not to raise taxi fares.

The planned sale of 2,000 new yellow taxi medallions helped plug the budget gap for fiscal year 2013.

Four men allegedly involved in a massive fraud scheme involving commercial car insurance and taxi licenses have been arrested, Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced Thursday.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed five bills into law Wednesday, but chose not to sign a bill that would add penalties for taxi drivers engaged in sex trafficking.

The City Council passed legislation Wednesday that would make it illegal to knowingly use Taxi and Limousine Commission licensed vehicles to facilitate sex trafficking.

The outer-borough taxi plan that would have potentially sold 18,000 licenses, or medallions, to taxi drivers for operation in all five boroughs has been blocked, at least temporarily, by a state Supreme Court judge.

Because of rising gas prices, inflation, and other costs, the Taxi and Limousine Commission is petitioning for a fare increase. It has been eight years since the last one.

A bevy of new yellow taxis will be popping up around Manhattan this year, while new licenses will be sold to livery cabdrivers in the outer boroughs for the first time.