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By adamg - 8/10/11 - 4:20 pm

The Council's Committee on Public Safety holds a hearing Thursday on a proposal by Councilor Maureen Feeney (Dorchester) to create a civilian taxi board to oversee the city's medallion cab fleet.

By adamg - 8/3/11 - 12:17 am

Smashed cab

By adamg - 8/1/11 - 10:25 am

Smashed cab

A roving UHub photographer noticed this unusual sight on Mass. Ave. in North Cambridge on Sunday, reports:

The strange thing: There were no other planters in sight. And you can't tell from the photo but it was full of dirt, too.

By adamg - 6/1/11 - 6:36 am

The city's sending notes to cabdrivers this week reminding them to knock it off when it comes to trying to get East Boston residents and visitors the cost of the tolls on the way back, because that's illegal.

Via Jim Correale, who reports:

By adamg - 5/18/11 - 12:20 pm

Cab in the Muddy RiverPhoto by BFD.

A Brookline cab driver who lost control exiting Storrow Drive at Park Drive wound up in the Muddy River this morning, the Boston Fire Department reports.

The cabbie got himself out of his vehicle OK; a tow truck and a hazmat crew responded to remove the cab and clean up anything it might have left behind.

By adamg - 5/12/11 - 7:36 am

Or failing that, they want card readers that don't fail so often. WBUR reports on an angry meeting yesterday among cabbies, two credit-card processing companies and the Boston hackney unit.

By adamg - 3/13/11 - 5:17 pm

Boston Police report arresting a Winthrop man on charges he drove off in a cab when the driver got out.

According to police, Paul Delellis, 41, got into the front seat of a cab at State and Kilby streets around 11:50 p.m. yesterday. The driver asked him to sit in the back, but Delellis refused to move, police say:

By adamg - 3/3/11 - 8:06 am

Taxi sign

Spearmintkitten couldn't help but notice this sign in her cab yesterday.

By adamg - 2/15/11 - 7:38 am

WBUR continues its look at the state of Boston taxis.

Mwokeji says there have been many cases where the machine goes down and a customer just flat out refuses to pay. Often, he says, they think he's lying because drivers have earned that reputation. But there is nothing he can do about it.

'BUR also quotes a fleet owner who claims Boston cabs have gone from "shaggy, shifty, sleazy to where it's pretty much all spit and polish right now, and high tech."

By adamg - 2/4/11 - 11:43 am

The Hack reports on the WBUR reporter who rode with him one night for a story about Boston cab drivers:

All this chatting distracted me. I found myself driving aimlessly. Other cabs had cut in front of me to pick up fares I should have stopped for. I was getting frustrated.

"What about the airport?" Adam asked. "You must get a lot of good fares from there."

By adamg - 11/14/10 - 11:06 pm

Channel 7 reports on one woman's terrifying ride after the guy tried to drop him and her friend off at the wrong Quincy address and he refused to take them to the right place. The report doesn't specify if he's a potential entrant in the "Boston cabbies suck" file, but he did pick them up at a Boston nightclub, which would seem to indicate he's a Boston hack.

By adamg - 11/9/10 - 3:25 pm

Jenna recounts two recent rides, including one with a cab driver who demanded she not talk at all during the ride.

By adamg - 7/29/10 - 9:02 am

The Hack reports on a pair of contrasting riders in his cab. With bonus side diversion to Augusta to see the rich people fly into town in their private jets to visit their kids at summer camp.

By adamg - 5/29/10 - 11:16 pm

Paola Ferrer snaps a photo of cabbies idling in the new bike lane on Comm. Ave at Kenmore Square.

By adamg - 4/20/10 - 9:38 pm

Karman Lee happened to be there with a camera this afternoon.

Compare.

Via BostonTweet.

By adamg - 3/24/10 - 8:26 pm

Boston Police report a sting yesterday netted a cabbie who picked up an able-bodied rider even though he'd been dispatched to pick up a wheelchair user on Berkeley Street.

By adamg - 3/17/10 - 9:55 am

Hackneyed Sojourn gives the other side of the story, from the front seat, of all those people who just know the cab driver is taking them out of the way to run up the fare:

By adamg - 3/6/10 - 2:14 pm

The council this week agreed to schedule a hearing on whether forcing Boston cabs to be equipped with credit-card machines last year is hurting individual drivers.

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