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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...
...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...
...addition to a fare increase, the report calls for structural changes in the local taxi industry. These will later be submitted to the council as an ordinance. Other issues raised in the report include the creation of a taxi commission of city officals and elected representatives of the industry; new provisions for the elderly and handicapped who rely on cabs for transportation over short distances; and regulation of the radio dispatching services which serve independent drivers...
Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci said the taxi industry and its regulators have been continually at odds because there are no recognized spokesmen for the owners of the drivers. "There should be more input [into the regulation process]," he said, "but the fault lies with the industry itself because it is not organized...
...councilors discussed solutions to this problem, including moving taxi stands closer to residential districts, so that a driver would not have to travel far to pick up a passenger at home; changing the fare structure to make short trips more lucrative; or requiring taxi drivers to pick up passengers referred to them by the radio dispatchers...