March 12, 2008
Taxi Meter Deadline Pushed Back to May 1
Those of you who've had April 6 circled on your calendars as the first day you can expect all D.C. cabs will be outfitted with time and distance meters, time to make a little adjustment: the deadline has been pushed back to May 1.
The Post reports that a judge made the ruling because the District published two different timetables for the public comment period on the final meter regulations, which the city is blaming on a typographical error.
The matter came before a judge in the first place because a group of cab drivers are suing in order to challenge the authority of Mayor Adrian Fenty and Taxicab Commission Chairman Leon Swain to set rules and rates for the new system. The drivers say the eight-member Taxicab Commission should have been the ones to make the final decision - a position which we find more than a little hilarious, considering the Commission couldn't even make a decision when they were asked for one.
D.C. Attorney General Peter Nickles expressed confidence that the city would win on the larger issue.
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Typographical error riiiight.
I fairly anti-taxi, so it warms my heart to see them totally pwn us a little more.
It's pretty cut and dry. They're going to have to switch to meters. According to the DC Code, only the Mayor could exempt them from doing so, and he had until October 2007 to do so. So
Should the Mayor have set the rates? No. The Taxicab Commission is correct in that they are the ones who are supposed to set the rate.
This is just a stall tactic.
That's a royal FUBAR to not have gotten the comments period correct.
Fifteen yard penalty. Repeat first down.
The city, much like "the system" makes a lot of errors. Lord!
will there be an "aroma discount" if you get a cab that smells like the driver's lunch? Outlaw any hack with no air conditioning.
This city is an error!
"You're wrong! Jackson Roykirk, your creator, is dead. You have mistaken me for him – you are in error. You did not discover your mistake – you have made two errors. You are flawed and imperfect. And you have not corrected by sterilization – you have made three errors! Nomad – you are imperfect! Execute your prime function!"
"Faulty! Faulty! Must sterilize! – STER-I-LIZE!"