Uber raised the cost from $5.35 to $6.35.
Metro riders can leave a station within 15 minutes, free of charge.
D.C. officials have been promising credit card payment options in taxicabs for months. But by summer it might actually happen.
Dining and dashing is a well-known problem for many restaurants, but is riding and running a similar problem for cab drivers? That was the question that the D.C. Taxicab Commission discussed today.
Photo by moworld Metro fares are slated to go up 10 cents across the board (with the exception of senior fares, which will only go up 5 cents) starting this Sunday, Feb. 28, thanks to a recent board of directors vote. But that’s just the beginning. Come July, riders will almost surely be facing a much larger fare hike, thanks to a looming $189 million budget shortfall in FY2011. Some combination of service reductions…
>> The District of Columbia Bar wants an online directory of lawyers to cease and desist, citing violations of copyright laws and privacy, and the ability to rate the attorneys listed. [WaPo] >> Someone at 13th and Irving NW is offering “Free Air for Bikes.” [Prince of Petworth] >> A Frederick County, Md., woman charged with giving alcohol to a teenager got off on a technicality: she was convicted under the wrong statute. In…
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. Don’t get too excited about cheaper cab fares, though. As we wrote about yesterday, it’s looking like metered cab rates will be raised…
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…
You already knew that in January, WMATA is doing away with all paper transfers and increasing the SmarTrip transfer window to three hours. This morning the Post explains that these transfer changes will at long last include discounts for bus to rail transfers that riders (and DCist commenters) have been asking for since SmarTrip was first introduced. Currently, rail to bus transfers are discounted, but commuters who start on a Metrobus and then enter the…
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. The last time we wrote about the commission reinstating the gas surcharge was in May of this year, but Swain actually approved the most recent surcharge renewal on Sept. 29, extending it through January 31, 2009….
