All cabs will be required to use it.

And a $5,000 fine each.

Both Chengs face up to six months in jail and fines of up to $5,000.

The September 1 deadline for all D.C. taxicabs to have credit card systems installed is rapidly approaching, and it looks like most of them won’t meet it.

The original deadline by which all 7,300 of the District’s taxicabs are required to offer credit card payments is exactly a month away. But many cabs just got a one-month break.

MyTaxi, a company that makes a taxi-hailing smartphone application, has settled its beef with the D.C. Taxicab Commission over the new regulations governing credit card payments.

In this town, there are some things of which you just need visual proof, no matter how many times government agencies say such things are in progress.

Tony Cheng, the owner of a popular Chinatown restaurant that bears his name, and his son were indicted today on federal charges that they attempted to bribe District officials in hopes of obtaining taxicab licenses.

The FTC backed many of the concerns over new taxi regulations raised by the combative livery-by-smartphone company.

A D.C. Council hearing scheduled to discuss how passengers of the city’s taxicabs often feel unsafe turned out to be just as much about drivers’ safety in the wake of Tuesday morning’s slaying of a cabbie in Adams Morgan.