SF News SFO Now A Battleground For Taxi And SuperShuttle Protests With Uber, Lyft and Sidecar now fair game at San Francisco International Airport, taxi and SuperShuttle drivers might be SOL at SFO. Nonetheless, each group of workers staged protests in the past two
SF News Uber, Lyft, And Sidecar All Now Legal At SFO We thought maybe Sidecar had struck some kind of sweetheart deal last week getting permits to drop off and pick up passengers at SFO, but it turns out the other rideshare companies got
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 How Many Dash-Mounted Phones Are Too Many? (This Guy's Got 5) Signs we have reached peak-app? Cabbie in SF running 5 dash mounted phones pic.twitter.com/WVycnmkGuN— Thomas Purves (@tpurves) September 2, 2014 This tweet from Thomas Purves, who describes himself as both
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 San Francisco's Population Boom and How It Impacts You By some estimates, at least 30,000 extra people have moved into San Francisco since 2010. Where are we putting them all? That's still being worked out, clearly. But in the meantime, we
SF News Video: The War Between Taxis And 'Rideshares' When filmmaker and SF State student Max Maddox started seeing "so many mustached cars drive by," he was led to create "Taxi 2.0," a short documentary film "not just about the heated
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 DeSoto Cab Head Says S.F. Cab Industry Could Collapse In 18 Months At the hands of Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar, yellow (and other color) taxis could be kaput in San Francisco in a year and a half, at least according to the president of one
SF News UberX Rides Get $1 More Expensive Just last night I noticed that UberX wanted to charge me a new $1 "Safe Rides Fee" on top of the usual fare. I clicked OK, because I needed to get home, and
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 Uber Cars Attacked By Striking Taxi Drivers In Paris One place in the world where the tension between traditional cab drivers and on-demand car services like Uber is getting most heated is France, and a taxi strike at Paris airports Monday turned
SF News UberX Undercuts Taxis Even Further, Drops Rates Below S.F. Meter Prices In another move aimed squarely at San Francisco's maligned taxi cab industry and comparable rideshare services, Uber has dropped the rates on their UberX hybrid car service to undercut standard taxi fares. Although
Arts & Entertainment Uber Warns Of '50-Percent Or Higher' Fares On NYE "Look, this is New Year's Eve," says Uber CEO Travis Kalanick regarding his company's possibly prickly price point come tomorrow night. Via this helpful video, he's trying to tell you that the city's
SF News Uber, Now in 29 U.S. Cities, May Gross Over $200 Million This Year The little, mobile car-hailing company that just a year ago was something most of your friends probably hadn't heard of is now on track to make about $210 million in revenue this year
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 Cab Driver Stabbed After Deplorable Teen Can't Pay Fare A cab driver was stabbed in the Potrero Hill neighborhood last night after a 17-year-old was unable to pay his cab fare. This all happened around 10:30 p.m. Thursday. Luckily, the
SF News PUC Ready To Legalize Ridesharing In California After mulling over how to regulate semi-legal ridesharing services like Lyft, SideCar and Uber, the California Public Utilities has handed down a proposed ruling that would create a new set of regulations for
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 Lyft Gets $60M Investment For More Pink Mustaches The brigade of ridesharing services looks to drive on unabated as Lyft, of neon-pink mustache fame, received a $60 million cash infusion from venture firms led by Andreessen Horowitz LLC (yes, you read
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
