From the monthly archives:

March 2007

Trial Period for Neighborhood Taxi Stands

March 7, 2007

In the television sitcom “Taxi,” the dispatcher used a radio to tell the cabdrivers where to pick up their next fares. That system started to change in 1982, when yellow-cab companies were permitted to transfer two-way radios to their nonyellow cars, to free up yellow cabs for street hails. And the system disappeared entirely in [...]

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