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However, the eve of Saint Patrick's Day saw little good humor during an acrimonious four-hour hearing attended by 100 city cab drivers. Of the many proposals discussed, the councilors and members of the cab industry agreed on only one: a 25 percent increase in city cab fares. The increase would be the first in six years, a period which has seen a cumulative inflation of 37 percent...
...only proposals accepted by the council were made by cab drivers who testified at the hearing. The first proposal establishes a larger number of taxi stands in the Central and Kendall Square areas, and another revises the application for taxi licenses...
...Several cab owners called the proposed regulations too restrictive. "We're cab drivers, not civil servants," complained Arthur Santoro, owner of the Campus Cab company...
...this film Vietnam, from which one Travis Bickle has just returned. Although Travis, played by Robert (fuckin') DeNiro, was not physically injured during his tour of duty, some essential mental functions are decidedly absent, as in, "lights on, nobody home." Having gotten a job as a cab driver, Travis has ample opportunity to observe the filth (animate and inanimate) that permanently infests New York City. Confronted with a grimy and desperate reality, the earnest hack prophesies: "Some day a good rain's gonna come wash the shit from these streets...
...driver is hermetically sealed in the cab...