Black cab drivers are overwhelmingly white British, the report states.
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The same definitely can't be said for Barcelona's cab drivers.
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Boom, done — no roads, traffic jams, or cab drivers involved.
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I was very afraid for my life and cab drivers.
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London's "black cab" drivers will remain exempt from the charges.
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Everyone is vulnerable: truck drivers, cab drivers, and even CEOs.
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The cab drivers waiting outside were even asleep in their cars.
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I have experienced racism and sexism from unaccountable black cab drivers.
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Black-cab drivers, and the unions representing them, cheered Friday's ruling.
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They might not need cab drivers anymore, but they'll always need canners.
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McGinn said it appears all the injured people are fellow cab drivers.
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This led to protests in London in 2014 from black cab drivers.
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Construction workers, cab drivers, landscapers—they've all been replaced by metal and microchips.
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It definitely didn't help to have two bad cab drivers on last day.
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Yellow and turquoise cab drivers also use the Uber app to find customers.
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He's a "blue-collar billionaire" motivated by a desire to help cab drivers.
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Didi's was to shorten wait times for both cab drivers and passengers in China.
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New York's taxi union, which represents green and yellow cab drivers, supports Wednesday's strike.
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A new license for Uber would be a blow to London's black-cab drivers.
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Uber conducted background checks using the methods used for black-cab drivers, he said.
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Unlike cab drivers, Uber or Lyft drivers are not technically in the service industry.
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A cyclical pattern occurs as the conversations with the cab drivers then start to repeat.
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Cab drivers also turned their meters off for the evening to transport concertgoers to safety.
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Fashion Review PARIS — Taxi cab drivers are striking in Paris, protesting the rise of Uber.
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The men who raped were college students, cab drivers, religious men, men of different races.
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Most black-cab drivers are white native-born Britons, while many Uber drivers are immigrants.
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But Mr. Walsh and most black-cab drivers interviewed for this article voted in favor.
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Six struggling professional drivers - including three yellow cab drivers - have killed themselves in recent months.
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Women also endured discrimination at the hands of cab drivers, albeit in a different way.
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Black cab drivers call Deliveroo cyclists "fleas" because they say the city is crawling with us.
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Moore was convicted of first-degree murder in the 1979 shooting deaths of two Omaha cab drivers.
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Moreover, many of the loans that cab drivers took out to finance their medallion purchases were predatory.
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Trump resonates with welders, plumbers, construction workers and cab drivers in a way few Republicans ever have.
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Officials plan to execute Carey Dean Moore Tuesday for the 1979 murders of two Omaha cab drivers.
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Many cab drivers have also turned their meters off for the evening to transport concertgoers to safety.
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Cab drivers who saved up a 10 percent downpayment could finance a medallion through a credit union.
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There were a couple of Nigerian cab drivers in a Walmart parking lot saying they love Trump.
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MEANWHILE 30,000 CAB DRIVERS LOSE THEIR JOB SO THERE'S A MIGRATION OF WEALTH FROM LABOR TO CAPITAL.
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Truck drivers and cab drivers are the most obviously displaced, but the effects will be far-reaching.
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In London, Uber has faced criticism from unions, lawmakers and traditional black-cab drivers over working conditions.
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In London, Uber has faced criticism from unions, lawmakers and traditional black cab drivers over working conditions.
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Meanwhile, taxi cab drivers are struggling to stay afloat, and a ride is just a tap away.
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London's traditional black cab drivers have attacked Uber, saying it has undercut safety rules and threatened their livelihoods.
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"Its our own network of scooter boys, people who are training to be black cab drivers," Gerber said.
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Cab drivers say the surcharge is a cruel blow to an industry already on the brink of collapse.
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In London, the firm has faced criticism from unions, lawmakers and traditional black cab drivers over working conditions.
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According to several cab drivers, the company recently approached them for its upcoming cab service dubbed Jio Cabs.
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"We are trying to be fair to you," South Ward Councilman John Sharpe James told local cab drivers.
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London cab drivers and anti-rape campaigners gather in Parliament square to protest against Uber, on June 24, 2016.
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Rival apps, such as Hailo and Gett, count two-thirds of the capital's black-cab drivers among their ranks.
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But the ride sharing company faced criticism from local unions, lawmakers and traditional black cab drivers over working conditions.
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Cab drivers typically pay between C$4,000 and C$12,000 a year for commercial coverage, depending on driving history.
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Uber has said it receives hundreds of complaints a month from its drivers about remarks from black-cab drivers.
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"We need to examine what the actual impact would be on yellow cab drivers," she said in a phone call.
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These numbers are small in comparison to Ola's cab service, which runs in 102 cities and has 350,000 cab drivers.
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According to a recent survey, only 8% of minicab drivers are white-British, compared with 80% of black-cab drivers.
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Through those fights in Foreman's comeback, whether they were against cab drivers or world champions, he was trying new things.
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Macri, who was mayor of Buenos Aires before assuming the presidency in December, threw his weight behind the cab drivers.
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"I think a lot of women have been harassed by cab drivers, have been followed by Uber drivers," she said.
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Moore, who killed two cab drivers in Omaha in 1979, is set to be executed Tuesday morning at 10 a.m.
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Some Uber drivers say they have been threatened and beaten by yellow cab drivers, an accusations the taxi industry denies.
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Ola and Uber's rise in India has been devastating for cab drivers, who pay large amounts for licences to drive cabs.
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Uber drivers in the UK, many of whom are immigrants, are under fire from the country's mostly native-born cab drivers.
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Schifter called repeatedly for more cab drivers to unionize against companies like Uber, and forecasted the demise of the taxi industry.
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The closure was no windfall for the city's cab drivers, many of whom said the heavy traffic was hurting their business.
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Unlike Uber, Gett signs up only regulated drivers in the cities in which it operates, such as London's black-cab drivers.
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On Wednesday, the New York State Attorney General's office announced it had investigated upstate cab drivers for price gouging asylum seekers.
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Green-cab drivers are working less than they were, 5.7 hours in May 2018, compared with 6.5 hours in May 2015.
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And although nothing so extreme has happened in the U.S., cab drivers and local governments are still putting up a fight.
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That most black-cab drivers are white, native-born Britons and many Uber drivers are immigrants serves only to complicate matters.
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That's right – the 2017 NYC Taxi Drivers Calendar is here, featuring photos of real New York cab drivers satirizing pin-up photoshoots.
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Black cab drivers have lost a High Court challenge against Uber's London operating licence, after senior judges rejected their claims of bias.
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Last year, Uber and its Indian rival Ola announced plans to employ and train thousands of women cab drivers in the country.
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Delhi resident Shanno Begum is among a growing number of women cab drivers in India, who are challenging a male-dominated profession.
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Some Uber drivers say they have been threatened, blocked in traffic and beaten by yellow cab drivers, an accusation the industry denies.
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We waved down six cab drivers and showed them the hotel card, but they all waved their hand no and kept going.
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Steak sandwiches became a popular cheap eat with cab drivers and by 1940 had made their way onto restaurant menus throughout Philadelphia.
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In Kenya, regular cab drivers last month threatened to paralyze transport if the government did ban Uber from Nairobi within seven days.
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We spoke to loads of locals and cab drivers to find areas that wouldn't be there for much longer to shoot in.
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In 2013, according to an analysis by the Washington Post, only cab drivers were more likely to be murdered on the job.
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My district in Queens is home to one of the largest contingents of for-hire and yellow cab drivers in the city.
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Last year in Paris, cab drivers held a violent protest at Charles de Gaulle airport that was live-tweeted by Courtney Love.
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Ruben Santiago-Hudson will direct the drama about guys trying to make a living in Pittsburgh as unlicensed cab drivers in the 1970s.
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The real losers could continue to be the incumbents, particularly the black cab drivers, who seem unable to compete on price and technology.
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But an even more prominent problem is the fuel the company's rise has poured on the fire of protest from traditional cab drivers.
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Grant Davis, chairman of the London Cab Drivers Club, recounted a meeting with a minister in the Conservative government about a year ago.
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Cab drivers in the area often compete to drive him, as he is a very good tipper, according to The New York Times.
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In August, Nebraska executed inmate Carey Dean Moore, convicted for killing two cab drivers in 1979, using a drug combination that involved fentanyl.
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Lined with pimps, prostitutes, brothels, strip clubs, and apparently cab drivers, it was a neighbourhood that employed every kind of night shift worker imaginable.
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Is the incumbent industry you mean to disrupt well-received in the press, like nurses, or something decidedly short of that, like cab drivers?
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Drivers who use Uber are licensed by Transport for London and have been through the same enhanced DBS background checks as black cab drivers.
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The City Council has sought to cap ride-hailing companies' growth and to level the playing field for the city's iconic yellow cab drivers.
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It is the latest big change for cab drivers as policymakers and regulators try to adapt the city's requirements to demographic and technological changes.
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While some road users including residents, trash collectors and cab drivers are exempt from the restrictions, some business groups voiced concern about the implications.
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"I can't say I've made intimate friends because of the hat, but it makes cab drivers smile," Johnson, who lives in Indiana, told VICE.
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Criticism has been leveled at Uber from all sides – including labor unions, politicians and traditional black cab drivers – over working conditions and regulatory concerns.
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Black cab drivers, who oppose to Uber on the grounds the app encroaches on their livelihoods, welcomed the decision not to renew its license.
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In January, the company was criticized after it removed surge fares after tax cab drivers went on strike to protest President Trump's travel ban.
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The New York Taxi Workers Alliance, which represents both yellow cab drivers as well as Uber and Lyft drivers, was in favor of the cap.
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His brilliant use of neon lights reflecting on the windshields of the taxis is so striking, especially against the pensive expressions of the cab drivers.
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The families of two cab drivers killed by a Nebraska death row inmate four decades ago say they&aposre long past ready for his execution.
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Many are working-class cab drivers, manual laborers, and restaurant workers who bring their children to the ER at night, when their shifts are done.
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Licensed black cab drivers have been complaining for some time about the car-hailing app, insisting that it's eroded their business and threatens their future.
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Hyperallergic has the exclusive premiere of Days of Black and Yellow, a documentary short about the pressures the rideshare industry has put on cab drivers.
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Black cab drivers in London put a hold on their planned Wednesday protest against private car services out of respect for the victims in Brussels.
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The Licensed Taxi Drivers' Association, a trade body for London's black cab drivers, welcomed TfL's move Monday, claiming "Londoners will be safer as a result."
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"No-one thought that Ubers would help solve, you know, social issues with cab drivers in New York not stopping for African-Americans," he said.
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There are 580,000 self-employed license holders, including cab drivers, tradesmen and the employees of thousands of private eateries, bed and breakfasts, and construction contractors.
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It had taken police more than a week to track down the information about the cab drivers who had taken her on the journey to Pisac.
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Uber lobbied against these proposed changes, couching them as a specific attack on its business and an attempt to "address the concerns of black cab drivers".
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He appealed to Staten Island cab drivers, California farmworkers, Ivy League scholars, poor Mississippi blacks, wealthy Manhattan liberals and far away fans in Africa and Asia.
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But earlier this month regular cab drivers threatened to paralyze transport if the government did not drive the Uber taxi service from Nairobi within seven days.
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The other front is a fiery uprising of traditional cab drivers who believe they are being unfairly squeezed by the recent flood of ride-hailing apps.
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And they worried that tensions could escalate with black-cab drivers, emboldened by the ruling and yet conscious that a lengthy appeals process might lie ahead.
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It affects thousands of workers who depend on the salaries paid to federal employees to sustain themselves — such as child care workers, cab drivers, and restaurant workers.
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Actors, waiters, cab drivers, students, and hip-hop artists with a Somali background showed up, and he asked them to pretend to be pirates during a hijacking.
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But when faced with variables — like fast-moving yellow cab drivers or jay-walking pedestrians — cars driven by software have to be quick to adapt and learn.
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The advent of Uber has jeopardized the livelihoods of cab drivers, and even caused suicides, so that getting a ride can be cheaper and easier for millennials.
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By September, that number had grown to 33,000, as well as another 4,000 yellow- and green-cab drivers who could be hailed through the app's uberT feature.
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By September, that number had grown to 20,000, as well as another 4,000 yellow- and green-cab drivers who could be hailed through the app's uberT feature.
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Criticism has been leveled at the ride-hailing business from all sides — including labor unions, politicians and traditional black cab drivers — over working conditions and regulatory concerns.
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Featuring top DJs like Pretty Lights in creative locations cab drivers don't believe are real, The Ticket Fairy's parties have won the hearts of music industry folks.
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Great news for black cab drivers and bad news for anyone who enjoys a cheap ride home from the club—Uber has lost its license in London.
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London's black-cab drivers were doing roaring business in the rain, and the pavements were gray and empty except for a smattering of pedestrians under dripping umbrellas.
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Much like London's black-cab drivers, who know its 25,000 streets by heart, they must recall every sandbank and wind farm at the mouth of the river.
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London cab drivers who acquire "The Knowledge" of the city's mind-boggling street network have been shown to have significantly larger hippocampi than the rest of us.
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It was a moment of hope for New York cab drivers, who are grappling with a suicide epidemic that's been linked to the rise in ride-sharing popularity.
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London cab drivers are considering bringing a class action suit against Uber after the mobile app was granted a temporary license renewal to operate in the British capital.
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The controversy of scoring judges in Thailand and Europe aside, middle-aged cab drivers in Bangkok still talk about those two momentous rucks with shock and awe reverence.
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As for the arrival of autonomous cars, the concern is that Uber, Lyft and cab drivers will be left by the wayside in favor of machine-driven vehicles.
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The company also said it uses the same background checks as those used for black cab drivers and follows TfL rules on reporting serious incidents to the police.
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She was abandoned in the streets of Matamoros twice by cab drivers, she said, when she started to feel sick and they didn't want to deal with her.
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The court issued a death warrant for Carey Dean Moore, who has spent nearly four decades on death row for the 1979 shootings deaths of two Omaha cab drivers.
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Then he sent an ill-advised tweet about surge pricing when cab drivers at New York's JFK airport were striking to protest Trump's travel ban, inspiring the #DeleteUber hashtag.
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The researchers found, for example, that just 1 percent of cab drivers in the country held a college degree in 85033, compared with more than 15 percent in 2010.
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Black-cab drivers, who earn licenses by memorizing some 25,000 streets and 100,000 landmarks for an exacting test known as The Knowledge, complain that Uber drivers are under-regulated.
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The artist Chia-En Jao, who lives and works in Taipei, created his deceptively simple Taxi films with cab drivers as he visited sites of colonial history around Taiwan.
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Everyone — my own parents, cab drivers, and older women behind me in the grocery line — has told me how lucky I am to have this time with my new baby.
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When things do not adhere with these values, they are seen as dregs of the past instead of alternatives, as the cruel elimination of cab drivers throughout the world illustrate.
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VICE News sent Quinn to ride along with some drivers to figure out what happened to them and their livelihood — and what they think the city owes its cab drivers.
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Carey Dean Moore, one of the nation's longest-serving death row inmates, will be executed on Tuesday after being convicted in 1979 for killing two cab drivers, five days apart.
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If rates for ride-hailing apps were to increase, as Uber has suggested as a possibility, then perhaps this would give yellow cab drivers a bit of a competitive edge.
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If the gypsy-cab drivers who work out of the storefront office at 290 Wylie Avenue are hungry, they can fill up on prime rib at the Red Bull Inn.
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But the cab drivers note that for a company like Uber, valued at more than $60 billion by some estimates, the fines were less than a slap on the wrist.
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The Nebraska Supreme Court issued a death warrant for Carey Dean Moore, who has spent nearly four decades on death row for the 1979 shootings deaths of two Omaha cab drivers.
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A survey done by newspaper Southern Metropolis Daily last year showed that 80 percent of Shenzhen's cab drivers were unsatisfied with the supply and allocation of charging stations in the city.
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London cab drivers are examining the possibility of bringing a class action suit against Uber after the mobile app was granted a temporary license renewal to operate in the British capital.
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In the episode's best moment, a group of African cab drivers seeking a night out encounter a group of young women trying to get into a restaurant, minutes past closing time.
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PagSeguro, which sells its card reading devices instead of leasing them, primarily targets smaller merchants - street vendors, nail salons, cab drivers and others who only recently started working with credit cards.
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In July 2015, the then young Minister of the Economy in Hollande's socialist government introduced a piece of legislation to deregulate shopping hours and protected professions (notaries, doctors, cab drivers, etc.).
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But Daniel Medina, a spokesman for the Taxistas Organizados de la Ciudad de Mexico, a local cab drivers' union, estimated it could be as much as 45 million pesos ($2.38 million).
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Other cases have seen cab drivers — known in Colombia as taxistas — request Uber cars via the app, only to attack the driver when the car arrives at the pick-up destination.
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The New York City Taxi Worker Alliance, the labor union representing many New York cab drivers, applauded the commission's decision, which could drastically improve the living conditions for full-time drivers.
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Immediately, accusations that the ride-hail company was attempting to profit off protesting cab drivers by making it cheaper for consumers to hail a ride began to crop up on Twitter.
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In London, black cab drivers who see Uber as a threat to their hard-won livelihoods have blocked streets in protest, arguing thay are being unfairly undercut by an inferior service.
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A report from the Daily News found that yellow cab drivers in New York City have seen on average a 30 percent dip in income per month between 2013 and 2018.
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August Wilson used to drink coffee every day at a restaurant next door and chat with the drivers, whose livelihood hinged on licensed cab drivers refusing to venture into that neighborhood.
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Sky News reported that the LTDA was likely to argue that 25,000 black-cab drivers in London had suffered lost earnings from Uber averaging around 10,000 pounds for at least five years.
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While the protest broke up, black cab drivers brought the area to a standstill as part of their own protest against plans to ban cars from more key roads in the capital.
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The former was administratively useful for visa paperwork as a college student, the latter sufficiently meaningful to me, and the classmates and cab drivers I encountered who were curious about my provenance.
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As in other cities across Europe, the ride-hailing company has faced ongoing resistance from London's black cab drivers, who have to meet far more stringent requirements to operate in the city.
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Where black cab drivers in London may have settled for sit-in protests, Uber drivers in Colombia have been subject to more than 100 instances of violence since the start of 2016.
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Third—and this isn't just because I'm a little bit of a luddite—I used to have a lot more conversations on the subway than I do now, or with cab drivers.
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A report by the Chicago Cab Drivers Union found that the number of riders in Chicago hailing cabs dropped from 2.3 million monthly riders to about 1.1 million from 2014 to 2017.
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READ: Death penalty states are looking for new ways to execute people Moore, who killed two cab drivers in Omaha in 1979, had seven other execution dates scheduled before Tuesday's, according to NPR.
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It remains to be seen if the economy of the future will create enough jobs for software coders and drone designers to make up for all the cashiers and cab drivers it loses.
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The taxi industry in major Japanese cities like Tokyo is heavily regulated and cab drivers are required to have special licenses, so companies there must focus on other services instead of ride-sharing.
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Research by the New York Times showed that Uber receives hundreds of complaints a month from its drivers claiming to have been the victims of racist and xenophobic abuse from black cab drivers.
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These apps will always be there but most cab drivers tend to be older, and it's harder for them to engage with technology so they see it as a threat to their livelihood.
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In New York, there are about 40,000 yellow cab drivers, but Uber drivers have outnumbered them since 2015, a number which doesn't distinguish those who also provide both regular taxi and Uber services.
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The play, written by August Wilson, follows a group of cab drivers in the 1970s who drive around with an unlicensed cab, also known as a "jitney," thus giving the play its title.
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If you live in London, at some point in the last year or so, you've probably come across large groups of kids speeding through rush hour traffic, pulling wheelies and irritating cab drivers.
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Before, you had a terrible system of insanely overpriced journeys by notoriously surly black cab drivers, which no young people could actually afford to take, so they didn't (they rely on Uber now).
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An airline trade group has projected total losses of up $85033 billion for the industry worldwide, rippling to virtually every other facet of the economy, as executives to cab drivers feel the effects.
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In spirit, it's similar to the way Uber cab drivers mark themselves "available" so that they show up on the riders' map, though the company says the two features work in different ways technologically.
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Cab drivers who don't stop for black passengers would tell you they are not being racist (meaning they don't have any animosity for African-American people as individuals) — they are just playing the odds.
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Abelardo Ortiz, a Colombian national convicted in 2000 of a drug trafficking murder, and Dwight Loving, convicted in military court in 1989 of killing two cab drivers in Texas, will now serve life sentences.
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The vote was symbolic but it shows how the Labour-dominated council is beholden to unions whose main interest is protecting elite black cab drivers, not the much larger number of private-hire drivers.
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"Ocasio-Cortez has previously criticised Uber&aposs "unregulated expansion," tweeting after a taxi driver&aposs suicide in New York that: "Yellow cab drivers are in financial ruin due to the unregulated expansion of Uber.
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And how many millions of people, truck drivers and parcel delivery people and cab drivers and even Uber drivers, what do we do with the millions of people who will no longer have a job?
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Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, who is a patron of the London Taxi Drivers' Charity for Children, recalled an interesting ride she had during a Buckingham Palace reception for London's famous black cab drivers on Thursday.
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The GMB Union and the London Taxi Drivers' Association (LTDA), which represents the city's black cab drivers, had asked to be "interested parties", meaning they would be given access to documents and could make submissions.
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They have been spurred on by the powerful taxicab industry, which does not welcome competition from services offering lower fares and greater convenience while avoiding some of the government-imposed strictures traditional cab drivers face.
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They put managers out of work—they put bar backs, security, bartenders, waitresses, VIP hostesses, DJs, house moms, doormen, delivery workers for the alcohol, delivery workers for the food, and cab drivers out of work.
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Soon after the arrest, dozens of white men, mostly fellow cab drivers of Brown determined to avenge the attack, abducted Earle from the jail and lynched him—beat him, stabbed him, shot him to death.
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But green-cab drivers are no less angry about app-connected rides, saying that Uber and Lyft have torpedoed their fledgling segment of the taxi industry before it even had a chance to establish itself.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James has threatened to sue New York City for artificially inflating the value of yellow taxi medallions, claiming $2628 million is owed to thousands of cab drivers across the city.
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Bhairavi Desai, the executive director of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance representing cab drivers, said James's call to action is welcomed as validation of the city's liability in the taxi crisis, the Times reported.
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It was only then that my guide warned me to be very careful on the road because "everybody hates us" — including the police — and that sometimes cab drivers would try to "interfere" with the tour.
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Uber was the first to feel the effects of consumer backlash after it continued to charge surge pricing to New York's JFK airport while cab drivers were striking in solidarity with those protesting Trump's Muslim ban.
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Cab drivers in the area are known for harassing young women, making comments about their school uniforms, pressuring them to sit in the front seat beside them, offering them money for sex, and sometimes raping them.
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In a few years, self-driving freight trucks will follow, unlocking tens of billions of dollars for investors and displacing millions of truck drivers, to be followed shortly by cab drivers, clerks, service workers, and radiologists.
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Cutting all fluid intake doesn't tally with another detail in the story of Jordan's untimely death—one that concerns M-150, the sickly, yellow, caffeinated energy drink beloved of fight sponsors and narcoleptic Bangkok cab drivers.
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However, Uber being welcomed fully into the legal fold is not likely to appease the traditional cab drivers, who will see the move as legitimising the flooding of the taxi market that is crippling their incomes.
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Master of None is the kind of show that dedicates a whole episode to characters who would be extras on other shows — to doormen and bodega clerks and cab drivers — because aren't their lives interesting too?
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The city was one of Uber's biggest success stories outside the U.S. But the company has also fought a heated battle with London's black-cab drivers, who must pass a famously difficult test called The Knowledge.
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It's also big in Europe, where it is profitable and claims to be the leading option — in London, for example, Gett partnered with more than half the city's black cab drivers in a direct challenge to Uber.
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The consequences of the new market shaped by Uber and its ilk are sometimes tragic: New York has seen a wave of suicides among taxi cab drivers as they find it increasingly difficult to make ends meet.
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Irate cab drivers blocked a major artery during the evening rush hour and television footage showed a crowd pounding on the windows of a black car with tinted windows, fitting the profile of a standard Uber vehicle.
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Uber said on Friday its drivers passed the same rigorous checks as black cab drivers, it has always followed TfL's rules on reporting serious incidents and it had a dedicated team that worked closely with London's police.
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Driverless car technology is expected to reduce labor costs, fuel costs and accidents, but it will also be a complete disaster for the millions of Americans who work as long-haul truckers, bus drivers or cab drivers.
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Last year, Careem and Uber dodged a ban in Egypt after a suit from traditional cab drivers claimed that they violated laws on the use of private vehicles and had illegally registered their firms under different industries.
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Cab drivers face the real prospect of competing with vehicles operated only by technology and commercial cargo will be transported by trucks driven by automated technology with several trucks being "driven" as truck trains, ten vehicles long.
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One of the big problems is that cab drivers are forced into financial distress as they try to pay off tax medallion loans — which essentially allow drivers to operate their own cabs, instead of leasing from companies.
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To combat that, the alliance has a proposal, which I hope the City Council will take up next, to require all licensed for-hire and yellow-cab drivers to participate in civil rights and racial justice training.
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This year's photos follow the cab drivers as they do all sorts of sultry activities, including squeezing a sponge of water over one man's head, standing shirtless while fixing a steamy engine, and measuring the taxi's tires.
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LONDON (Reuters) - London cab drivers are examining the possibility of bringing a class action suit against Uber, their association said on Tuesday, after the mobile app was granted a temporary licence renewal to operate in the British capital.
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You may see a pigeon fly directly into someone's head (or your own—seriously, WTF, twice in one month?!), or see two cab drivers stop four lanes of traffic to play fisticuffs over a lane change gone awry.
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The San Francisco-based operator has faced mounting protests from yellow-cab drivers, who lost market share as they struggled to maintain their cars and the quality of services with some of the lowest fares in the world.
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As the paper also noted, the dispute over London's license also involved skyrocketing tensions between the city's highly trained and mostly white black-cab drivers and ten of thousands of Uber drivers, of whom many were recent immigrants.
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The former start-up has grown rapidly and is valued at $62.5 billion but has faced protests, bans and restrictions in several cities, including in London where traditional black-cab drivers tried to have the app ruled illegal.
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"Cab drivers here are infamous for the ways they fuck you over, overcharging you, taking you around the block, and making you feel unsafe as a woman," Josefin Ekner, a Swedish expat living in Buenos Aires, told me.
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The city has an 18,000 strong cab force, and equally strong taxi associations, that have put pressure on local government to crack down on Uber — so perhaps the price increase will at least pacify cab drivers, for now.
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Much as Prohibition in the United States did little to stop drinking, with bootlegging, mobs, and bathtub gin, in the Soviet Union you could still purchase alcohol at all hours, including at "drunk corners" and from cab drivers.
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Rideshare companies like Uber and Lyft have added to the worsening traffic congestion, cash-strapped cab drivers have protested in the streets, and multiple have taken their lives, citing the difficulty of making ends meet in the gig economy.
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Meanwhile, a team of economists from the University of Maryland and the US Census Bureau found a marked increase in the number of self-employed taxi cab drivers — but not other occupations — by looking at data from the IRS.
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Uber said that about 2,000 yellow cab drivers use the Uber app to find customers, while another 3,000 work for UberXL, using large vans to transport groups to parties, or run people with bulky luggage to Istanbul's main airport.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A German court on Thursday upheld the country's ban of ride-hailing app UberPOP, which offers taxi services by unlicensed cab drivers, in a further setback for the online firm which faces uphill legal battles throughout Europe.
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For one thing, they are more likely to be female — in New York City in 2016, just 1 percent of Yellow Cab drivers were women, compared with 19 percent of Uber drivers and 30 percent of Lyft drivers nationwide.
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It remains unclear, however, how much of this effort will target ice hockey, which is still a little-known and poorly understood sport in China, where cab drivers in Beijing have been known to mistake hockey sticks for golf clubs.
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According to data released this year, the vast majority of London's black cab drivers are white British, while private car hire drivers including Uber tend to be of a much more varied ethnic background, and are often first-generation immigrants.
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Cab drivers in Barcelona are staging a 24 hour strike and will be taking their distinctive black and yellow cars to Madrid to take part in a demonstration in the centre of the city planned for midday, according to El Pais.
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It operates in the city as Juno after acquiring its competitor for $200 million a year ago, and it currently has more than 45,000 drivers on its books, or more than half of the 80,000 licensed cab drivers in the city.
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Despite such rules, Uber has stuck around in Berlin—where it's little more than an app to hire official cab drivers—and also manages to deal with drivers required to hold commercial licenses in London and New York, among others.
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Even without the help of algorithms, cab drivers know to converge on a venue as an event finishes; more Uber drivers than normal were surely in the area at the end of Ms Grande's concert in expectation of the extra business.
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The council is not alone: The New York Taxi Workers Alliance, which represents both app-dispatched and yellow cab drivers, has also long sought to address issues of racial bias in its industry, both against its members and against passengers.
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"We found in our efforts to organize voters that are eligible for the Strip caucus that lots and lots of cab drivers are our supporters and they are eligible for the Strip caucus because of where they drive," said Michelsen.
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London cab drivers manage to memorize more than 25,000 streets and can rapidly figure out the best way to get from Point A to Point B. Marshall Islanders can famously navigate vast tracts of open ocean without any instruments at all.
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One is because of its size, against which the rest of that list is dwarfed; and two is because Transport for London (TfL), the city's transportation regulator, has over the years proven to be a strict custodian when it comes to issuing licenses to taxi companies, and subsequently enforcing the operating rules that it sets for them — not least because of the lobbying of the city's black cab drivers, who have staged numerous protests over Uber's practices: London's black cab drivers block Whitehall during a demonstration over the regulation of private hire cars using the Uber app in London on April 6, 2017.
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The City Council measure was aimed at reducing traffic congestion and increasing driver paychecks in the wake of the explosive growth of for-hire vehicles and a rash of suicides among New York's "Yellow Cab" drivers who have seen their incomes fall.
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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina's biggest city vowed to punish Uber Technologies Inc on Thursday for defying a ban and President Mauricio Macri showed solidarity with cab drivers as the ride-hailing company opened a new front in its battle with the taxi industry.
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The taxicab industry's desperate fight to stop the spread of this burgeoning competition culminated in a variety of dramatic public standoffs, such as mass protests by cab drivers in multiple major cities (including Washington) intended to cause gridlock and cripple the city's infrastructure.
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A federal judge is expected to rule Friday on whether to temporarily prohibit the state from using the drugs in its possession for the execution of Carey Dean Moore, who was condemned to die for the 1979 murders of two Omaha cab drivers.
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On the left, Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, who is himself the son of an immigrant bus driver, applauded the license decision as a victory for "passenger safety," aligning himself with black-cab drivers who are mostly British, white and right-leaning.
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It wasn't the first such product in the capital—Hailo's app for black cab drivers predated Uber—but it quickly became dominant, particularly with the launch of UberX, the cheaper rides that moved the app on from its original focus on luxury.
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But Díaz, who previously served in the New York State Senate for 15 years, is viewed as a strong contender in the campaign with a proven base of support, especially among senior citizens, ministers through his New York Hispanic Clergy Organization and taxi cab drivers.
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Cab drivers who work for a company that provides taxi service to the airport in Phoenix, Arizona will press their case on Friday before a federal appeals court that they are employees entitled to minimum wage and not independent contractors as the company claims.
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Fingerprints are required for the millions of people in those occupations, including teachers, medical professionals, caregivers to the elderly and sick, stockbrokers, cab drivers, real estate agents, school volunteers and fire fighters, because they have regular unmonitored access to vulnerable populations or significant financial assets.
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It's no secret that Uber has been devastating to the local taxi industries, and a few years ago Nathan had an idea: encourage women to give birth in cabs, thus giving free positive press to the cab drivers and their industry as a whole.
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His columns went into the kind of details that only drivers who have spent years on New York City's streets would know—chronicling the hazards of bike lane positions, trucks on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, and pointing out how police crack down on cab drivers' every move.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's Kakao Mobility has struck a deal with taxi unions that will allow it to run a car-sharing service for four hours daily on weekdays, marking an end to protests by cab drivers who had complained the service would destroy their livelihoods.
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"The branding of marijuana is basically the California gold rush for marketing," says David Foote, a branding consultant who tells me that on a recent trip to Los Angeles, cab drivers said he was the third or fourth person working in weed marketing they'd driven that day.
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"We have him, and his kind, to thank for the suspicious stares we get on the streets of Prague, or the rolled eyes we get standing in line for gelato in Florence, or the curious questions we get from cab drivers in County Clare," Vaccaro wrote.
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The law also makes car insurers give discounts to drivers who install a "black box" to record how they drive, and obliges the government to adopt legislation regulating taxis, car-hire and car-share schemes to ensure fair competition between traditional cab drivers and businesses like Uber.
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I don't see why cab drivers of the future shouldn't be chalking white lines on side streets to derail self-driving Ubers which are putting them out of work, and I also think we need more eyes and hands on the tools which are shaping all of our futures.
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In a pre-action letter sent to the mayor's office, the IWGB (Independent Workers Union of Great Britain) argued that the charges will be imposed on a workforce where 94 percent of drivers are from ethnic minority backgrounds, while the majority white "black cab" drivers will avoid the costs.
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Then in January 2016, China Labor Bulletin, a non-government organisation that promotes workers' rights in China, reported that in the city of Dongguan, in the southern Guangdong province, around 1,000 cab drivers went on strike, again calling for the government to crack down on services like Uber.
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He appealed to niche groups from Ethiopians to cab drivers to pot smokers with fantastical promises, accused his opponent Gantz of being weak on Iran and mentally deficient, while participating in efforts to secretly record Gantz's top strategist to smear his rival, according to The New York Times.
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On a visit I made to the country during the revolution's first anniversary, there wasn't a single person I met who had a bad word to say about him, from the cab drivers who praised his man-of-the-people earthiness, to the business owners who applauded his stand against corruption.
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I should admit now that, even after spending several days with the Higher Brothers, I'm still plagued by the same questions that flooded me a year ago, when a friend sent me the video for "Black Cab," a trap ode to unlicensed cab drivers of Chengdu, rapped in their Sichuanese dialect.
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Sky News said the Licensed Taxi Drivers' Association (LTDA) was likely to argue that 25,000 black-cab drivers in London had suffered lost earnings averaging around 10,000 pounds for at least five years as a result of Uber's failings, taking the overall possible bill to 1.25 billion pounds ($1.64 billion).
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A classic Wilson ensemble drama, about a group of gypsy cab drivers in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, the new Manhattan Theater Club production is directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, who has both appeared in and directed Wilson's plays – notably the superb recent revival of "The Piano Lesson" from the Signature Theater.
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But while Samsung's peers appear to mostly be done taking potshots at the company for the time being, and it hasn't done much to impact the company's bottom line, the issue lingers large in the public's mind, as cab drivers and flight attendants were more than happy to remind me on my trip to Barcelona.
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But here was a truth, all day in midtown: People spitting something vicious at strangers who are unknowingly blocking doorways, at sweaty bouncers with rules to follow, cab drivers who can't do it guy I'm going to Queens sorry, at girls with inhibitions, at guys with more accentuated triceps, at red lights, barricaded side-streets.
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What it means to be a leader has been in the spotlight lately, with Uber's chief executive Travis Kalanick admitting: "I need leadership help and I intend to get it," after an altercation with one of the company's cab drivers went public, and announcing that the business is looking for a new chief operating officer.
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Not only did we get a chance to see Kraftwerk in 3D, roller skate with Moodymann (and wander around his personal Prince palace), get driven around the city by Craig Craig himself, as well as interview a bunch of cab drivers, but once again presented the beloved Made in Detroit stage inside the festival grounds.
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Starting with Greater Cairo (with a population well over 25 million) and surrounded by ongoing controversy with cab drivers protesting and demanding complete halt of ride-hailing apps, Ousta now has around 2,000 cars on the roads of five major cities all over Egypt, with plans to expand to cover the entire country by the end of 2016.
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Uber has been active for years and is just one of a number of incumbent private car-based ride providers, which include other on-demand transportation services like MyTaxi (owned by Bolt's investor Daimler) and Gett, other fleet-based providers like Addison Lee, a plethora of local mini-cab firms and, of course, independent Black Cab drivers.
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With operations in cities across just four countries — the UK (where in contrast to Uber it provides a service for London's traditional black cab drivers to pick up in-app rides to complement classic on-street hailing), Russia, Israel and New York in the US — Gett's pared-down approach is overshadowed by Lyft in the US and Uber globally in terms of size.
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But, as The New York Times has noted, 2018 is a much different time than 2015: the public's anger with congestion has only worsened; a number of scandals has tarnished Uber's reputation; and a slew of suicides by livery cab drivers who couldn't eke out a decent living—including one right outside of City Hall in February—has rocked New York.
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That America has so readily bought into the myth of Silicon Valley as this weird Robin Hood/Walt Disney hybrid is an indictment of a lot of things, chief among them the way our politics have spawned an increasingly toothless public sector, which is in turn used to justify apps and laws and worldviews that consider unions to be archaic and cab drivers to be rubes.
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The European Union's top court has ruled that Uber should be regulated like a taxi company, a move that could have major implications for how the popular ride-hailing app does business in Europe — and raises questions about its future in the US. The European Court of Justice issued the ruling in a case brought by Barcelona cab drivers, who argued that Uber had an unfair advantage over them because it wasn't regulated as heavily.
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