SF News Taxi Company Crowdfunds For Survival As SFMTA Hands Drivers Lump Sum Checks How does a struggling local taxicab company compete with the cheap and unregulated competition of Uber and Lyft? Apparently, the same way that people these days pay unexpected medical bills, bail their own
SF News SF's Yellow Cab Enters New Chapter... 11 Bankruptcy Welcome to 2016, San Francisco. Yellow Cab Co-Op, our city's largest taxi company with 530 medallions, is filing for bankruptcy the Examiner reports. In a letter obtained by the paper, president of the
Arts & Entertainment Video: SF Cab Driver Releases Documentary On What It's Like To Compete With Uber And Lyft People who follow San Francisco's transit industry are likely familiar with the name John Han — he's written, on and off, about the cab business for years on his blog, and he's a frequent
SF News Uber CEO Says SF Revenues Are $500 Million Per Year, Others Question Figure Business Insider reports that in Munich yesterday Uber CEO Travis Kalanick announced that Uber's revenue in San Francisco is far larger than that of the taxi industry here. What's more, it's possible that
SF News Uber Goes On The Offensive, Sets Up Anti-Taxi Website "The Taxi Files: #HailFail San Francisco Edition" read the subject line of a pre-packaged, HTML formatted email sent to SFist's inbox. The subject matter: San Francisco taxi drivers are murderous, poorly regulated sex-offenders
SF News Taxi Drivers and Cab Companies Are Escalating Their Losing Battle Against Uber and Lyft A recent estimate puts the dent that rideshare companies have put in the San Francisco taxi industry at 65 percent and that just in the last fifteen months. Though there has been much
SF News It Could Now Cost $100 If You Puke In A Cab Some San Francisco cabbies are now invoking a little-known article of the SF Municipal Transportation Code that allows them to charge a $100 vomit clean-up fee should one of their late-night drunken passengers
SF News Want To Visit Lombard's Crooked Stretch This Weekend? Then Take A Cab So, you have out-of-town guests, but they're too delicate for Fisherman's Wharf's Dungeon and too afraid of ghosts to go to Alcatraz. All they want to do it visit that crooked street they've
SF News UberX Driver With Priors Facing Battery Charges A complaint that began on Twitter, in which an UberX customer claims he was verbally and physically assaulted by a driver in November, has now been escalated to the District Attorney's office. George
Arts & Entertainment St. Patrick's Day: Luxor To Provide Free Cab Rides Tonight If you drink and drive tonight, you will probably kill someone. True words. Fortunately, Luxor Cab (care of Berg Injury Lawyers) will give you one free ride home (up to $35, per ride)
SF News Taxis Services Could Maybe Get Better, By 2015 It may surprise no one to learn that there are currently no enforceable dispatch performance standards in place for San Francisco taxis. How many times have you been told a taxi is on
SF News Uber Will Give You A Free Ride In A DeLorean This Weekend Ridesharing service — scratch that — Transportation Network Company Uber will roll out their latest publicity stunt this weekend: As nostalgic former inhabitants of the 1980s, we are obligated to tell you this publicity stunt
SF News SFO Cracking Down On Rideshare Drivers With Citizen Arrests Travelers looking to get home from San Francisco International Airport using ridesharing services like Lyft, Sidecar or Uber, might have a harder time finding rides starting right about now. As CBS5 reports, SFO
Arts & Entertainment When Your Lyft Driver Stalks You: A Cautionary Tale [Update] Much ink has been spilled over the pros and cons of the ride-sharing services that have quickly become a fixture of city life. But not so much has been said about what happens
SF News S.F. Cabbie Chokes Passenger Who Wouldn't Tip Yet another reason to thank the universe for (decent) ride sharing. On Sunday morning, a cabbie turned into the Hulk after a passenger failed to give the customary tip. Strangulation ensued. "The taxi
SF News Uber Drops Prices On Hybrid Rides in S.F., Fares Now Equal To Taxis Not content with disrupting the taxi cab industry by simply existing, towncar-hailing app Uber has dropped prices on their uberX hybrid car rides to further undercut the local taxi industry by matching their
SF News Behold, A Ghostbusters-Themed Lyft Car; Also, A Hello Kitty One As Lyft enters its second year of pink-moustachio'd gypsy cabbing, it stands to reason that some of the drivers are looking to distinguish themselves. Also, this is San Francisco, and we love a
SF News Study: S.F. Needs More Cabs Photo: Jay M. In a newsflash that will shock no one, a new study commissioned by the SFMTA says that the city could use 600 to 800 more cabs on the streets in
SF News A New Law Might Uber-ize S.F.'s Entire Taxi Fleet You know how local cab drivers have been bemoaning the hit their business is taking from services like Uber and Lyft? Well, new legislation proposed by the SFMTA would require all 1,700
SF News Letter To The Editor: Lyft Responds To Ride-Sharing Criticism On Thursday, SFist published a letter from Trevor Johnson -- a licensed cabbie who drove and dispatched full time for over three years -- criticizing successful ride-sharing services (like Lyft and Sidecar) popular
SF News Letter To The Editor: A Solid Argument Against Ride Sharing [Update] We here at SFist are noted fans of newfangled ride sharing services -- prompted by one too many cabbie no-shows and refusals to go drive to Glen Park or the Avenues -- but
SF News S.F. Cab Drivers Take Uber To Court In their ongoing attempts to show just how clueless they can be about the current state of their own industry, a pair of San Francisco cabbies have lawyered up and hit Uber with
SF News More On Those Pink Mustache Cars, And Why They're Good Just a few days ago some friends were remarking on the uptick of cars around town with pink mustaches on them. Was this some sort of baseball reference they did not understand? A
SF News Hail! City To Issue 150-200 More Taxi Permits In a move that will brighten the soul of anyone who's ever spent half an hour in search of a cab, the MTA Board of Directors voted 6-0 last night to issue between
SF News Pedestrian Killed By Cabbie In The 'Loin Ugh. It appears that a pedestrian was killed in the early evening on Saturday while walking across the street in the 'loin. The culprit? A cabbie who allegedly ran a red light. "The