Word: taxied
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Cambridge taxi drivers won a partial victory last week when Yellow Cabs of Cambridge announced that its proposed sale of 52 taxi licenses to Ambassador Brattle Cabs was off averting a near monopoly of taxi cabs in the city...
While vacation bound Harvard students were flagging down taxi cabs to the airport last week, Cambridge officials once again delayed a proposed sale of 52 taxi licenses from Yellow Cabs of Cambridge to the Ambassador/Brattle Cab Company, pending an independent investigation...
...Taxi drivers told the Licensing Commission in February that the transfer would give Wilfred C. Suozzo, the owner of Ambassador/Brattle, a virtual monopoly on taxi medallions and allow him to dominate the taxi business in the city. The total number of taxi licenses was fixed by city...
With 75 percent of the 240 city taxi licenses, Suozzo could "put the squeeze" on medallions, raising prices, and offering them to other owner-operators at high interest rates, cabbies said, adding that Suozzo would also dominate the only radio dispatch network in the city...
...another taxi-related measure, Healy told the city council last night that new taxi license applicants will now have to pass an exam on points of interest in the city and the surrounding area...