Word: taxiing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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BEIRUT—Lebanon’s taxi system is one of my favorite things about this country. The cabs—invariably ancient green Mercedes—will pick you up on the side of the street and take you where you want to go for 1,000 liras, or about 50 cents. The driver is free to pick up other passengers along the way who are heading in the same direction and usually drops you off at the main road closest to your destination. I used to think that a system where every passing cab stopped...
...dances, along with the more profitable revenue stream from drinks and a $5 ATM fee that almost makes usury a sin again. He does not, however, get the $20 entrance fee nonlocals pay at the door; that goes right to the back of the casino to the taxi driver who dropped his riders off at the front, as it does in all Vegas strip clubs. Driving a cab in Vegas has become less about ferrying passengers than strip-club promotion...
...night to sell $20 lap dances, and draws on more profitable revenue streams such as drinks and a $5 atm fee that almost makes usury a sin again. He does not, however, get the $20 cover charge nonlocals pay; as at all Vegas strip clubs, that goes to the taxi driver who dropped his riders off. Driving a cab in Vegas has become less about ferrying passengers than about strip-club promotion. "To someone from Minnesota we're sluts, but in Vegas this is a respectable job to the locals," says Sami, 33, a Sapphire stripper known as the Fire...
...casualty list. Traffic adds hours to the peril, as cars move at an agonizingly slow pace through improvised checkpoints and blocked-off streets. "My family says the profit is not enough, the suffering of the journey too great," says Radhy, who travels in the anonymity of a rattletrap city taxi because kidnappers often target doctors who can afford ransom payments. "But if I do not go, a lot of people will get no care...
...result of increased fuel efficiency, Riney says, is a huge economic incentive for taxi companies to operate hybrid cabs...