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…

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….

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. When the $1 gas surcharge cycle we’re…

The D.C. Taxicab Commission once again quietly extended the gasoline surcharge last month to last through May 28, 2008. The previous surcharge went into effect in late November, and was set to expire at 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 29. But the Commission voted on Jan. 9 to extend the expiration date to 11:59 p.m. Wednesday, May 28, 2008. A press release dated Jan. 25, 2008 on the commission’s web site announced the extension, but…