Word: cavellini
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Bill Cavellini, who has been cabbying here for 15 years, the dire financial straits drivers have found themselves in lately made a fare increase a necessity...
...typical weekday night last year would have seen a handful of taxis lined up at the Harvard Square taxi stand, Cavellini observes. But now, he says, that number is doubled. "The economic downturn is generally felt in the taxi industry and the restaurant industry first, and this was true in this case," he says...
...winter months are traditionally the most profitable for cabbies on the East Coast, when inclement conditions keep walkers off the streets. "We do the opposite of what the squirrels do. We save in the winter to make it through the summer," Cavellini says...
...Central Square working-class] people here are really upset that a lot of money is going to be spent there and not over here," said Bill Cavellini, a Cambridge taxi driver for 17 years and local activist for 17 years. "The feedback I'm getting is: dammit, we've got drugs and we've got crime here and we've got a terrible situation in Massachusetts, and it may not get better for five years and we need the money here. I think that's class-based and I think It's racially based...