01/07/2009
Passenger numbers drop for taxis, but rise for MRT trains (Channel NewsAsia via Yahoo! Philippines News)
SINGAPORE: People in Singapore seem to be choosing cheaper ways to travel in these tough economic times. Latest figures from the Land Transport Authority showed that taxis are picking up fewer passengers while MRT trains are carrying more.
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01/09/2009
HELP IMPROVE CITY'S TAXIS (New York Post)
Get ready for Taxi 2.0. The city wants to improve the GPS, touch-screen and credit-card payment technology installed in thousands of yellow cabs, Taxi and Limousine Commission Chairman Matt Daus said yesterday. And it wants anyone and everyone to...
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01/09/2009
CES-tastic!: No Taxi Lines, Barry Manilow and a Geek ZZ Top (But, As Always, Scoble-Stalked!) (AllThingsD Online via Yahoo! Finance)
Here is BoomTown's first video from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which kicked off last night with a keynote speech by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. So far, it's been a definitely thinner crowd, a reflection of the weaker economy, with more taxis in line than lines for taxis.
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01/09/2009
Fuel shortage cripples Mumbai (The Times of India)
MUMBAI: A majority of fuel-starved autorickshaws, taxis, schoolbuses and private vehicles in India's financial capital remained off the roads on Friday morning, putting millions of residents to hardship.
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01/09/2009
Uganda: Woman Killed, Eight Injured in Accident (AllAfrica.com)
Kampala — AN unidentified woman died and eight passengers were injured when a truck loaded with dairy products rammed into six commuter taxis in Kampala yesterday.
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01/09/2009
India's fuel pumps run dry as strike enters 3rd day (The Forex Market)
NEW DELHI, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Long queues at petrol pumps jammed rush-hour traffic in major Indian cities and taxis stopped running as a strike by state-run oil employees demanding higher pay began to bite on Friday.
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01/08/2009
Taxis rule out fare cuts (Pretoria News)
Taxi commuters who think they may benefit from yet another drop in the fuel price may be sorely disappointed.
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01/09/2009
Fuel shortage cripples Mumbai (New Kerala)
Mumbai, Jan 9 : A majority of fuel-starved autorickshaws, taxis, schoolbuses and private vehicles in India's financial capital remained off the roads Friday morning, putting millions of residents to hardship.
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01/08/2009
Discount hope for phase-out (The Telegraph)
A decision by Hindustan Motors to increase the exchange discount on old taxis is likely to facilitate the government’s attempt to implement a high court order on phasing out of vehicles more than 15 years old by March 31 next year.
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01/09/2009
India oil strike sparks interest in carpooling (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
It took a strike at India's state run-oil firms, and the queues of vehicles that snake out of petrol pumps almost run dry, to ignite an interest in carpooling in a nation where gridlocked roads are part of the daily grind.
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