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...another issue awaits resolution tomorrow night, when a three-month moratorium on the sale of taxi medallions ends. The city's taxis have been under this ban since December, and Yellow Cab, the second-largest taxi company in the city, will also emerge from a special three-year ban on the sale of medallions from its fleet...
License Commissioner James T. McDavitt said last night that the latter ban was imposed to prevent Yellow Cab's owner, Arthur Goldberg, from forming an effective Cambridge monopoly by selling the fleet to Frederic Suazo, owner of Yellow Cab's chief competitor, Ambassador/Brattle Cab...
James T. McDavitt, chairman of the License Commission, which regulates taxi service in Cambridge, said the report was based on 12 hours of meetings with local cab drivers and owners, but several of those who testified termed its recommendations hasty and arbitrary...
...Cab drivers also criticized the report submitted by the license commission...
City Councilors Saundra Graham, Francis H. Duehay '55 and Alice Wolf said they had received complaints that independent cab drivers who use radio dispatching services frequently do not answer the less lucrative calls from passengers who wish to travel short distances. They said many of these people are elderly or handicapped, and depend heavily on cab service...