WASHINGTON, D.C. — D.C. Taxicab Commission Chairman Ron Linton thinks Uber, a new service that lets people reserve luxury-sedan rides from their smartphones, is illegal. If he’s right, then something is wrong with the law, not with Uber.
The San Francisco startup launched in the District last month, but on Wednesday, Linton told a taxi driver, “They’re [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The D.C. Taxicab Commission is wasting no time showing Uber, the hybrid taxi-limousine service, who’s boss.
An Uber car was impounded and its driver was ticketed this morning as part of a sting operation, said the commission chairman, Ron Linton. The action comes two days after Linton said in a commission meeting that he considered the [...]

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — No cash for the ride home? No problem, as of June 1.
The Minneapolis City Council voted Friday to require taxi cabs in the city to accept credit cards starting this summer. The new ordinance, which passed on an 11-2 vote, was spearheaded by council member Gary Schiff.
Schiff expressed concerns about the number of people [...]

CHICAGO, Ill — Do you feel safe taking a Chicago cab?
Well, the wheels are in motion on a new proposal that would crack down on unsafe drivers and modernize the city’s fleet of nearly 7,000 cabs. It has the city, cab company owners, and drivers at odds.
In his spare time, Dmitry Samarov is a blogger, [...]

LEXINGTON, Ken. — The minimum number of taxis needed to start a cab company in Lexington would be reduced from 25 to 10 under a proposed ordinance that came before the Urban County Council’s Public Safety Committee earlier this week.
Also, a company could operate on a part-time basis, eliminating the restriction that a cab company must [...]

NEW YORK CITY — On Dec. 30, a little more than a week after Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced an agreement to bring taxi service to the outer boroughs while making taxis and livery cars more accessible to the disabled, New York City quietly filed notice that it would appeal a federal court [...]

NEW YORK CITY — WIRED: Uber allows you to get a taxi when no one else can but a recent slip-up could end up costing it
ITS LATE on New Year’s Eve night in New York. Your chances of finding a cab, even in a city usually brimming with yellow cabs, are slim. That’s okay, though: you [...]

NEW YORK CITY — A Staten Island cab service has pleaded guilty to scamming the MTA by billing the agency for thousands of rides it never gave to disabled people, officials said Thursday.
Investigators found that Wadsworth Car Services had customers sign several vouchers at once and then added in fake dates and times later. In other [...]

ATLANTA, Ga. —Three men who carjacked eight taxi cab drivers in DeKalb County are to be arraigned next week on more than 30 charges, including armed robbery, aggravated assault and kidnapping, authorities said.
The suspects are to appear Tuesday before Chief Judge Mark Anthony Scott of DeKalb County Superior Court after a grand jury handed up criminal [...]

PETERSBURG, Vir. — A city man has been indicted on first-degree murder, robbery and gun charges related to the March 16 shooting of cab driver Raphael Cudjoe. Leonard Ray Stephens-Staton Jr. has already been sentenced for a cab driver robbery that occurred days earlier.
Cudjoe, 36, was found unconscious in his cab by police responding to a [...]