BOSTON – Boston is joining some other cities in requiring taxis to switch to low-emission vehicles.
Mayor Thomas Menino announced Friday that Boston taxi owners will need to make the change by 2015. He called it “an essential step” in improving air quality.
New York and San Francisco are requiring taxis to convert to hybrids and other [...]
Entries from August 2008
August 31, 2008
Boston to require hybrid taxis by 2015.
August 31, 2008
A Manners Mall re-think for Wellington.
Pedestrian-only Manners Mall could be transformed into a road for buses in a radical rethink of Wellington’s city centre.
Wellington City Council’s proposal would let buses travel in both directions through the mall, linking Courtenay Place to Willis St.
It is a back-to-the-future plan, as buses would take the same route they followed till the late 1970s [...]
August 25, 2008
Taxi driver shaken after altercation.
A female taxi driver was left “extremely shaken” after being slapped, spat at and threatened by a male passenger in Oamaru on Sunday morning.
She called for assistance and the man was restrained by other taxi drivers until police arrived.
A 21-year-old Oamaru man will appear in the Oamaru District Court on September 3 charged with assaulting [...]
August 23, 2008
Text-A-Taxi.
DUBAI — Getting a taxi in Dubai is now just an ‘SMS’ away.
The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) on Monday introduced taxi stand (rank) numbers, modelled on the Singapore taxi service system, for different locations. The passenger could send an SMS to the toll-free number 4774 mentioning the number of the taxi stand where [...]
August 21, 2008
Waterford Taxis protesting against deregulation.
A selection of photos taken over the past 8 years at different taxi protests.
http://irishtaxiindustry.coolforums.org/
Submitted by Dave Davew.
August 21, 2008
Police pressure Melbourne taxi drivers to take home drunks.
TAXI drivers are furious at being made by police to ferry drunk troublemakers from the city so authorities do not have to arrest them.
Police are bundling drunks into taxis to get them off the streets, because of a culture of minimising arrests and a lack of city cells to cater for drunks.
Victorian Premier John Brumby [...]
August 19, 2008
Green Cabs NZ joins United Nations scheme to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
18 August 2008 – The European branch of the world’s largest car maker, Toyota, today became one of six companies to join the Climate Neutral Network (CN Net), a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) initiative bringing together organizations which pledge to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Toyota Motor Europe is the first car manufacturer to [...]
August 19, 2008
Why go Green? – From Greencabs Website.
If you think what we’re trying to achieve is great, take a look at our tree planting partner ‘Trees for the Future’.
These guys really are awesome.Trees for the Future has helped thousands of communities in Central America, Africa and Asia improve their livelihoods and their environment by planting nearly 50 million trees and they’re not [...]
August 18, 2008
Taking the environmentally friendly route.
By Wellington Today :: 18 Aug 2008
Wellington Combined Taxis might not have painted its vehicles green, but the innovative taxi company is working hard to improve fuel efficiency and reduce its impact on the environment.
Wellington Combined Taxis (WCT) is the capital’s largest taxi company, operating 442 cabs throughout the region. It offers a comprehensive range of services [...]
