Business & Tech Flywheel Taxicabs Are Now on the Uber App in San Francisco Uber’s long war on the taxicab industry has ended with a whimper and a merger, as Flywheel cabs are now incorporated into the Uber fleet, in a pilot that’s starting here in SF and hopes to fly nationwide.
Business & Tech Uber On the Verge of Cutting Deal With Taxi Fleet Flywheel A shocking alliance between Uber and SF taxicabs is on the table, as cab fleet Flywheel is in talks with Uber to put their cabs on the Uber app.
SF News Would A Flat $30 Rate Convince You To Take A Taxi To SFO? Gather round kiddies, and I'll tell you a tale: Long, long ago, before your cell phone could let you do anything besides make calls and play Snake, people who wanted to travel to
Arts & Entertainment Famous Jazzman's Saxophone Survives Hurricane Katrina To Be Lost To SF Cab You might recall New Orleans jazz musician Donald Harrison from his prominent role in Spike Lee's Hurricane Katrina documentary When the Levees Broke, or from his role in David Simon's HBO series Treme.
SF News Deadbeat Riders Swipe Cabbie's Cell Phone It's hard enough being a San Francisco cab driver (don't believe me? Then check out driver Kelly Dessaint's gripping Examiner column), do people really have to pile onto the profession by refusing to
SF News San Francisco's Biggest Cab Company Sold To Competitor For $810K Nearly five months after the news broke that embattled San Francisco cab company Yellow Cab was for sale, they've found a buyer: Competitor CityWide Taxi, which got the bankrupt business for a relative
SF News SFPD Seeks Public's Help To ID Stun Gun Wielding Cabbie Attackers #SFPD seeks 4 suspects in 8/2 Potrero Hill tasing & robbery of #SF cabdriver. Tipline (415) 575-4444 @SFPDBayview pic.twitter.com/KuEOizoRm6— Officer Manfredi (@OfficerManfredi) August 25, 2016 Over three weeks after
SF News Witness: Cab Driver Was On Phone As He Slammed Into Market Street Shoe Shine Stand The driver of a cab who jumped a Market Street curb and struck two bystanders might have been on the phone at the time of the collision, one witness says — but in a
SF News Cab Driver Attacked With Stick During Dispute Over Trip To East Bay A request for advance payment turned into a physical altercation Saturday, when a taxi driver's stick-wielding fare took umbrage after being asked to pay up. According to the San Francisco Police Department, the
SF News Gun-Wielding Man Kidnaps Cabbie Near Embarcadero Center A San Francisco taxi driver had his Monday night take a pretty crazy turn, after a fare pulled a gun on him and commandeered the cab. It was 9:20 p.m. Monday
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
SF News Vexed By Honking Cab, Market Street Couple Turns To Violence And Robbery No one enjoys the sound of a car horn, but a couple on Market Street took their displeasure to a new level Tuesday, by assaulting and robbing the honking driver. CBS5 reports that
SF News SFMTA Will Drug-Test Taxi Drivers, Is Chill With Medical Marijuana Though Further differentiating the taxi industry from Lyft and Uber, who do nothing of the sort, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Board of Directors voted unanimously yesterday to annually drug test cabbies for
SF News Flywheel Taxi Sues For Cities To Regulate Uber And Lyft In order to level what they deem to be an unfair field of competition against the likes of Uber and Lyft, Flywheel Taxi of San Francisco is suing California regulators, the Chronicle and
SF News Pacific Heights Bank Robber Uses Taxi As Getaway Car Yes, we know that SF's cab industry is struggling to remain in business, but today we have news of at least one well-heeled cab passenger. Unfortunately, the passenger is also a bank robber.
SF News Cyclist Fights For Life After Collision In Same Intersection Where Amelie Le Moullac Was Killed A bike rider was left with life-threatening injuries Tuesday night, following a collision at the same intersection where cyclist Amelie Le Moullac was killed in 2013. According to a San Francisco Police Department
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 SF High School Senior Struck And Killed By Cab On Pine Street Two pedestrians were struck and killed by drivers in San Francisco over the weekend: a SF high school student was hit by the driver of a cab on Pine Street, the other killed
SF News Video: Man Goes After San Francisco Cab Driver In Bizarre Padlock Attack At first, the below video seems like nothing special — it's a cab driver's dashcam, capturing what appears to be a peaceful fare in downtown San Francisco. Then suddenly, out of nowhere, violence. It
SF News Green Cab Nears Breakdown A founder of the worker-owned, 16-vehicle Green Cab company, Mark Gruberg is in a tight spot. Mission Local reports that his business has been unable to find a new insurance policy from an
SF News Anti-Rideshare Taxi Advocate Steps Down After Shady Videos Surface Just updated my avatar profile with my current outfit and attitude cuz apparently its hot or something . pic.twitter.com/vSRD4y4Zb2— Mister Johnson (@mrjhnsn) April 13, 2014 Local cabbie Trevor Johnson left his
SF News A Cabbie Takes The Stairs, Becomes Target In Taxi War Earlier today, in front of the Safeway at Church and Market Streets, a cab driver nearly drove down the stairs into the busy intersection. Although there were reportedly no casualties other than the
SF News Knife Crime 2013: Cabbie Robbed By Sixth Street Fare A taxi passenger was determined to ruin one local cabbie's night, apparently. The driver was robbed after picking up a passenger and bringing him to the notorious knife crime corridor along Sixth Street,
SF News Water Taxi Service On the Horizon Refreshing transportation news, readers! San Francisco is set to get water taxi service. The San Francisco Port Commission just approved a five-year agreement with John Scannell, who runs those duck boats for tourists
SF News Couple Killed In Yesterday's Taxi Crash An Ohio couple on their way from SFO the Mark Hopkins Hotel died in yesterday's taxicab crash at the Mariposa Street off-ramp from 280. "The woman was pronounced dead at San Francisco General
