Vincent Orange, fighting Kwame Brown for Gray’s seat, went with a smaller Cadillac SUV than his competitor. What, he couldn’t afford an orange paint job?

A little more than three weeks ago, DCist checked in with how the new taxi stands on 18th Street in Adams Morgan were faring — the findings were fairly disappointing. Have things gotten any better? In no uncertain terms: not really. A tipster let us know that trying to get a cab at a stand around 1:30 a.m. “was like trying to get a cab from Union Station after Thanksgiving” and that more than one cab driver wouldn’t take a party of four into the busy corridor in order to avoid the fray. With temperatures bordering on the teens last night, getting people in and out of cabs efficiently is of paramount importance — in hindsight, the brink of winter was probably not the best season to work out the predictable logistical kinks with this idea.