Most residents are supportive of plans to modernize D.C.’s taxicab fleet and are willing to pay a 50-cent surcharge to fund it, a new Post poll finds. Oh, and some people apparently miss the zone system.

We’re now two-thirds of the way through the month of May, with only 11 days left until the date by which Mayor Adrian Fenty has promised to begin fining D.C. taxicab drivers $1000 every time they are caught picking up a fare without a time and distance meter installed in their vehicles. We’ve definitely noticed more and more taxis with meters installed over the last week, many with those helpful “D.C. Certified Meter Taxicab” stickers…

WTOP is reporting that the the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority plans to ban taxicabs without meters from taxi stands at Reagan National Airport. That’s good. Regular roundtrips to DCA are the D.C. taxi driver’s bread and butter, and the airport taxi stands have dispatch employees there to assist passengers who are ready and able to enforce the meter rule. But MWAA says it will begin enforcing this rule at National on June 1, one month…

WTOP’s Adam Tuss and Kristi King did what I wish I had been able to do today: they went out and rode in a bunch of cabs, both to see how many they found that had meters installed, and to get a few real-life comparisons on price differences. They came back with some hardly surprising numbers, but hard numbers nonetheless: It took them seven cabs and 25 minutes to find a taxi with a meter.In…

The group that calls itself the Coalition of Taxicab Drivers, Associations and Companies has created an online petition to gather support from those in favor of switching all D.C. taxicabs to the so-called “zone meters”, as opposed to the time and distance meters Mayor Adrian Fenty has ordered will soon be mandatory. A judge recently pushed back the date by which the time and distance meters need to be in place to May 1, as…

D.C. taxicab drivers may have won a small victory in their attempts to derail Mayor Fenty’s time and distance meter mandate this week, when a judge awarded them an extra month of the zone system thanks to a silly typographical on the part of the District government. But a hilarious story in today’s Post by Sue Anne Pressley Montes outlines their new strategy in getting what they want (namely, zone meters), which includes tactics such…

Those of you who’ve had April 6 circled on your calendars as the first day you can expect all D.C. cabs will be outfitted with time and distance meters, time to make a little adjustment: the deadline has been pushed back to May 1. The Post reports that a judge made the ruling because the District published two different timetables for the public comment period on the final meter regulations, which the city is blaming…