The D.C. Taxicab Commission announced yesterday that it would restore a baggage-handling surcharge that it had originally removed from a fare increase proposal that will likely take effect in the coming months. more ›

Another D.C. taxicab company is being targeted by the D.C. Taxicab Commission. Fear not, though -- it's not Uber again. more ›

Plenty of people have opinions on proposed rate increases for D.C. taxicabs that would see per-mile charge rise from $1.50 to $2.16 while many surcharges are scrapped. Express yours tomorrow. more ›

Would you want all of the District's taxicabs to be a single color, say white? That's amongst the ideas to be presented today by Councilmember Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3) as part of a broader bill to modernize the city's large fleet of taxicabs. more ›

In a 20-page proposal released this morning, the D.C. Taxicab Commission found that justification existed for raising rates, though it bucked proposals for more dramatic hikes and noted that "industry improvements are a must." more ›

No, taxicab fares aren't likely to double, but whether or not they increase at all was the topic of a lengthy hearing today. more ›

Should taxicab fare increase help fund service improvements, or should improvements be a condition of eventual increases? That's what the D.C. Taxicab Commission will start debating tomorrow. more ›

If D.C. Taxicab Commissioner Ron Linton has his way, riders could see an increase in rates as soon as February 2012. more ›

Another proposal which will be considered by the D.C. Taxicab Commission tomorrow would allow drivers to ask for pre-payment of the estimated fare at the start of the ride during the hours of 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. more ›

Since earlier this year, there's been a moratorium on taxicab licenses. But today, Mayor Vince Gray announced that the moratorium would be partially lifted for very specific types of cabs. more ›

Ron Linton doesn't have an enviable job. Tasked by Mayor Vince Gray to head up the D.C. Taxicab Commission, Linton spent part of the day testifying before a D.C. Council committee on the thankless uphill slog he's decided to undertake in hopes of reforming an industry that everyone seems to have a complaint about. more ›

During yesterday's mayoral press conference -- and at some point between the questioning of his choice to chair the Board of Elections and Ethics and the media uproar over the decision "filtering" of the D.C. Fire and EMS Twitter feed -- Vince Gray announced that he would appoint four new members to the D.C. Taxicab Commission, including two cab drivers. more ›

Mayor Vince Gray's office passed along a press release this afternoon announcing that the D.C. Taxicab Commission would be moving its monthly meetings to the Old Council Chambers located in the One Judiciary Square Building at 441 4th Street, NW. more ›

The Post has it on good authority that Mayor Vince Gray is expected to name Ron Linton, a political consultant with 45 years of experience working with the District and federal governments, as the new permanent chairman of the D.C. Taxicab Commission. more ›

Last week's arrest of two journalists at a public meeting of the D.C. Taxicab Commission highlighted something of a loophole in the District's new Open Meetings law -- it doesn't say anything about whether the public or the press are allowed to record the proceedings, or when a commission, board or agency can limit or prohibit it. That looks like it's going to change. more ›

On this day last year, former mayor Adrian Fenty decided that he didn't have to follow the D.C. Council's financial directive to repeal the $19 maximum fare on taxi rides beginning and ending inside the District of Columbia. Fenty cited a legal opinion rendered by then-attorney general Peter Nickles, which stated that Congress "delivered to Fenty dictatorial control of the taxicab industry." The then-mayor upholding the cap on fares inside the city was one way he could flex his muscle -- but now with both Fenty and Nickles out of the way, Mayor Vince Gray appears dead set on reversing the policy and, potentially, nudging the District back towards non-metered cabs. more ›

Federal authorities have arrested 27 people so far in a massive bribery case tied to the D.C. taxicab industry. Two indictments released today accuse a total of 39 individuals of conspiring to bribe city officials in order to obtain fraudulent taxi licenses between 2007 and 2009. more ›

More than two dozen people have been indicted in the rapidly expanding federal bribery investigation into the D.C. taxi industry, the Post's Del Quentin Wilber is reporting. That's a whole lotta people. So who, besides Ted Loza, are they? They're "cab drivers or others with financial ties to the industry," most of whom will probably be arrested today, according to anonymous sources. Keep your eye out for handcuffed cab drivers this afternoon! more ›

Perhaps it was WTOP's reporting that did it — they seem to think so. Or maybe the D.C. Taxicab Commission spent some time reading your comments and noticed that they haven't got a lot of fans these days. Either way, the $1 fuel surcharge will disappear starting at 12:01 a.m. on Thursday. more ›

WTOP's Adam Tuss managed to get D.C. Taxicab Commission Chairman Leon Swain on the record that he's now officially "trying to get rid of the [gas] surcharge." Trying? He's also apparently "trying" to contact members of the taxicab commission so that he can talk to them about repealing the surcharge. "I expect to take action this week," Swain told Tuss. Hmm. You may recall that FOX 5's Matt Ackland asked Swain the same question on Oct. 29, noting that gas prices had fallen and were expected to keep falling. Since then, there was a regular, full meeting of the D.C. Taxicab Commission on Nov. 12. What prevented this discussion from happening at that meeting? Average gas prices in the metro area now stand at $1.91. When the $1 gas surcharge we're paying right now was reinstated in late 2007, average gas prices were around $3.13 per gallon. The Commission approved the most recent surcharge renewal on Sept. 29, extending it through January 31, 2009. more ›

FOX 5's Matt Ackland had the smart idea to ask D.C. Taxicab Commission Chairman Leon Swain whether falling gas prices will mean an end to the $1 gas surcharge we've all been paying for such a long time now. more ›

Given the record high gasoline prices consumers are paying at the pump right now, it's not terribly surprising that the D.C. Taxicab Commission took "emergency action" this week to extend the expiration date of the current $1 per trip gas surcharge by another 120 days. The previous gas surcharge, which was also an "emergency" extension, went into effect at the end of January and expired on May 28. more ›

The people behind DC Residents for Reasonable Taxi Fares, the web site that's been calling for Mayor Fenty to make some significant revisions to his taxi meter proposals, have sent out a last-minute push for residents to send like-minded input to the District. The deadline for public comment set by the D.C. Taxicab Commission on the proposed move from zones to time and distance meters, which Mayor Fenty has said would include a $4.50$4.00 flag drop, are due Monday, Jan. 7. more ›

The Washington Post says that taxicab drivers are handing out surveys to riders about the impending change from zones to meters. Drivers have until Jan. 8 to hand in public comments to the D.C. Taxicab Commission and the mayor's office, which means that if you get in a D.C. cab between now and then, odds are pretty good you'll be asked to complete a survey. more ›

If you've taken a D.C. taxicab since the stroke of midnight last night, you may have been surprised by a cab driver insisting that you pay an extra $1 gas surcharge. Didn't the gas surcharge expire in September? It did, but last week the D.C. Taxicab Commission quietly passed an emergency measure to bring back the $1 fee, beginning at 12:01 a.m. this morning and lasting until 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, January 29, 2008. “Prices... more ›

Given his position as chairman of the committee that oversees transportation and the D.C. Taxicab Commission, we knew headline-loving Ward 1 D.C. Council member Jim Graham wouldn't pass up an opportunity to create his own spectacle in the wake of Mayor Adrian Fenty's announcement about the transition to taxi meters. But it seems as though Graham was only able to muster up the resources to put together a 2 p.m. public roundtable at the Wilson... more ›

>> Mayor Fenty has changed his mind and now says emails to and from city officials will be kept indefinitely. [WTOP] >> More Fenty decisions! He's considering a drastic change to the role of the hated D.C. Taxicab Commission. [Examiner] >> Several people on a Boston-bound flight out of DCA were taken to a hospital after complaining of feeling sick and were found to have elevated carbon monoxide levels. [WCVB] >> Jack Bauer spotted in... more ›

D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty announced this afternoon that new time and distance meters for D.C. taxis must be installed no later than April 1, 2008. The announcement came about nine hours after the end of a 24-hour taxicab driver strike in response to the Mayor's decision to abandon the zone system. Fenty and D.C. Taxicab Commission Chairman Leon Swain Jr. also announced the pricing structure for the new meters: a $4 flag drop charge, then... more ›

Happy Halloween, Washington! From the looks of things, Mayor Adrian Fenty is in a festive mood for the holiday, and had a great time right alongside everyone else at last night's 17th Street High Heel Race. The Examiner isn't so sure Fenty's high spirits will last though, as members of the D.C. Council are ticked off at the Mayor for snubbing their hearings by not sending a representative from his office to attend them. Hopefully... more ›