Word: taxied
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...growing demand. AAA predicts a Memorial Day weekend as busy as ever. Some experts say you won't see drivers really get price sensitive until they are routinely paying $100 every time they fill up. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg can float congestion-pricing schemes and tell taxi drivers they have to switch to hybrids by 2012, but to the general public, this is about time and love, not money and reason. We may fear global warming, replace our lightbulbs, recycle our plastics. But in America a man's car is still his castle, and you don't pick...
...targeted at foreigners, and terrified that their family members will be kidnapped for ransom. Pauline's days, writes O'Donnell, "were punctuated with the constant phone calls she demanded from [her son] Jamal - when he got to college, as he moved from class to class, as he chose a taxi for the short trip home." She tells the author: "There is nothing in my life. I never do anything or go anywhere...
...Some say this is the "real" Taiwan, and, indeed, a trip down from the capital requires cultural reorientation. Taxi drivers and shopkeepers speak the Taiwanese dialect instead of Mandarin, and politics here are decidedly "green"-the color of President Chen and his independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party. Japanese tourists regularly visit, looking for scattered vestiges of their country's 50-year rule on the island, but Westerners have only trickled in, deterred by the four-hour-plus train ride or stop-and-start bus trip down Taiwan's congested west coast. That is expected to change now that the high...
...avoid possible surface-to-air missiles. But a trip to Arbil is so safe that on my flight I was the only passenger packing body armor. When I arrived, my biggest problem was the $50 fare charged for a 10-minute cab ride by the drivers of Hello Taxi--and finding a room at one of the city's packed hotels...
...You’ve got a guy’s guy who’s all about honor and integrity, and it reminded me of the great films that I grew up watching. It’s much more of a Travis Bickle [from ‘Taxi Driver’] or a ‘Dirty Harry,’ than it is a ‘Terminator’-type character,” he says. PURE PLEASURE? Swagger, a bad-ass with a soulful side, might not be an Oscar-worthy role, but according to Wahlberg...