Word: taxiing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...popularity with travelers, the U.S. Shuttle has incurred the wrath of Cambridge taxi drivers and their friends on the Cambridge City Council. Many taxi drivers have complained that they are losing $50 to $100 a day to the shuttle service. For this reason, the City Council has been opposed to the shuttle from day one. The only reason the shuttle has been able to operate at all is that the council has heretofore been powerless to stop it, since the company is licensed by the state of Massachusetts...
...making travel to and from Cambridge easier, the shuttles will improve the local quality of life. The time saved by not relying on the T to get to the airport may be more productively spent on work or at play. Fewer taxis zooming in and out of the Square will mean less traffic and less pollution. And the money not used on taxi fare may be spent in Cambridge's shops and restaurants...
Moreover, the shuttle's impact on cab demand may be less significant than some believe. Cambridge's poor are more likely to rely on the Boston area's public transportation system than on taxi service. The elderly can still call cabs for door-to-door service. And plenty of people will continue to prefer the immediate availability of a cab to waiting for a shuttle or calling for one in advance...
...order to operate in Cambridge, while the U.S. Shuttle gets off scot-free. While cab drivers point out that the U.S. Shuttle can offer low prices because it doesn't have to pay the $85,000 medallion fee, this one-time licensing gives the right to operate as a taxi and provide services the U.S. Shuttle does...
There was no blotting the bleary enthusiasm of the quarter-million conventioneers who overwhelmed Las Vegas last week for the annual computer hype-athon known as COMDEX. Teetering local phone systems that tumbled nightly at 7, double-booked hotel rooms and taxi lines that lasted longer than a Siegfried and Roy show seemed much less inconvenient when viewed as proof of the rightness of the computer revolution. Surely, the logic went, this many people can't be wrong. Even the sobering news that cash-starved CompuServe (which carries TIME online) was scrapping its failing Wow service didn't spoil...