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 Bankrupt Yellow Cab Is Now For Sale That beleaguered staple of San Francisco, Yellow Cab Cooperative, is for sale. The Examiner reports that the almost 40-year-old taxi company just couldn't overcome the one-two punch of a series of lawsuits stemming
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 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 Driver Plummets Over Embankment And Into Yellow Cab Parking Lot As if San Francisco's cab industry didn't have it rough enough, with plummeting use of their service making national headlines, last night a driver crashed into Yellow Cab's Mississippi Street parking lot. According
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
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,
misc Day Around the Bay Wee: Yellow Cab slip 'n' slide. [WhatImSeeing] The Glas Kat returns this week! (Death Guild fans of Walnut Creek the Bay Area, rejoice!) [Eater] Kill 'em with kindness. [BeyondChron] Novelists are smarter than
Arts & Entertainment Taxis, Taxi Drivers Blessed Today was the annual blessing day for taxis and taxi drivers across SF. (Wait, magic water on Yellow Cab? No! Yellow Cab should burn in the hell!) "Twenty-six drivers" have died on the
SF News The Travails of Tristan Of note is the resignation of the interim Taxi Commissioner and BFF of Heidi, Tristan Bettencourt. Tristan resigned after stories of past transgressions with the law were made public. In fact, Tristan seems
