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.