SF News Cab Plows Through Laundromat in the 'Loin One of San Francisco's reliable cabbies took a quick detour this a.m. through a laundromat window at Post and Hyde. He was trying to avoid that traffic mess down at Stockton, you
SF News SFMTA Chairman Advocates Snitching On Cab Drivers With 'Broken' Credit Card Machines As anyone who has been stuck in a cab with a suspiciously non-functioning credit card machine has probably figured out by now: those fancy video-streaming card swipe machines aren't actually breaking down with
SF News Cyclists Fume as City Allows Taxis to Use Bike Lanes Infamous for their lack of vehicular finesse (and numbers), taxicabs will now be allowed to legally use bike lanes to pick up and drop off passengers. Taxi drivers who used to use the
SF News Cabbie Strike: Prepared for Loud, Annoying Lunch Break at Civic Center The Taxi Driver strike planned for this afternoon has a set schedule this morning. According to KTVU, the cabbies plan to rally around City Hall and Civic Center between the hours of Noon
SF News While Cabbies Plan a Strike, Uber Cab Strikes a Blow at Cabs As a brief reminder: scores of taxi drivers plan to strike tomorrow to protest new credit card fees and delays to cab fare increases. As one driver-activist in charge of rallying the cabbies
SF News Free Car Tows and Cab Rides During Cinco de Mayo While you binge on margaritas, Tecate, and body shots tonight, please remember a few things. For starters, do not drink and drive. Ever. AAA Northern California will offer free tows to drivers who
SF News S.F. Cabbies Protest Credit Card Fees Yesterday afternoon at City Hall, hundreds of cab drivers staged a protest and threatened to strike if the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency didn't give them face time to discuss critical issues. KTVU
SF News Supervisor Weiner Plans To Expand Taxi Service For your reading pleasure, yet another Weiner story: At today's Board of Supervisor's meeting, D8 Supervisor Scott Weiner will introduce "a resolution in support of a proposal by the Municipal Transportation Agency to
SF News Tips on Catching a Cab Tomorrow Night The Examiner came out with some handy tips on catching that elusive cab tomorrow night, or any busy night, for that matter. The biggest suggestion is to learn the city's traffic patterns and
misc Homobiles, A Safe Queer Car Service If you've ever been tossed from a taxi for necking with a same-sex paramour, sporting leather and chains en route to the San Francisco Armory, or harassed by your cabbie for donning drag
SF News More Taxicabs, Please According to a report in today's Examiner, taxi providers are asking for more cars on the road. (Hallelujah.) Some 25 percent of people who call Yellow Cab for service, it seems, are never
SF News How Do You Handle Abusive Cab Rides? Most cabbies in San Francisco are hardworking, chatty ilk who, if you're nice, might even let you smoke inside the cab. They have the best stories, most bizarre and/or accurate philosophies, and
SF News Imposter Cabbies Burn City's Britches In an effort to fill the large, gaping hole of necessity for more cabbies in San Francisco, it makes sense that imposter taxicabs try to fill that need. According to today's Examiner, "at
SF News Free Cab Rides Home What with St. Patrick's Day synonymous with binge drinking, the number of drunk drivers on the road increases. Obviously. So, instead of trying to weave home after your ninth round at your favorite
SF News A Breakup Letter to SF Cabbies & Cab Companies Dear SF Cabs: We hate you. But, like, we hate-hate you. We hate you to death. For reals. Why? Because in addition to never having change for a $20, charging too much for
misc Cab Ride from Hell In a story recounted to the site, a woman called a cab from Kilowatt to take her back to (presumably) her apartment. The woman was severely drunk, but the cabbie threw her out
SF News Racing Taxicabs Crash Into Parked Cars In some four-day old news that managed to limbo under our radar, two cabbies (allegedly) racing with one another down Fulton Street on Monday night crashed into parked cars at around 11 p.
misc Taxicabs Ruining Suppertime All Over SF Over on KQED's food blog, Stephanie Lucianovic writes about her spoiled fine-dining engagements due to San Francisco's crippling taxicab companies, which fail to pickup/deliver in a timely fashion. This tardiness, you see,
