tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2708859863717325805.post8683210419455044319..comments2024-02-13T12:56:46.050-08:00Comments on The Phantom Cab Driver Phites Back: 500 Corporate Cabs? 500 More Taxis????Crocker Amazonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14344354862430937003noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2708859863717325805.post-50084624248093508692011-08-19T03:03:35.105-07:002011-08-19T03:03:35.105-07:00Oh, if only everyone would read and follow these r...Oh, if only everyone would read and follow these rules! The world would be a better place.Car Hire Aucklandhttp://www.taxcservice.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2708859863717325805.post-22185387613732280422011-05-26T15:12:02.144-07:002011-05-26T15:12:02.144-07:00Just adding more cabs to the fleet when 90% of the...Just adding more cabs to the fleet when 90% of the radio calls are picked up by 4 dispatch companies is stupid.<br />Hundreds of cabs that never pick up radio calls. Just imagine how many more customers we could have if they had any faith they would be picked up on a radio call.<br />Stand on the corner of 24 and South Van Ness for example and watch how many empty cabs go by of all different companies.Richard Hybelsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2708859863717325805.post-3372345756306911382011-05-25T13:23:21.690-07:002011-05-25T13:23:21.690-07:00Dear Anonymous, Your concern can be addressed, but...Dear Anonymous, Your concern can be addressed, but not as you recommend. You might like to know that the SFMTA is blocking your personal empowerment as your very own cab dispatcher by tabling the Open Taxi Access program, which was going to develop the Cabulous software into a dispatcher-on-steroids with which you could locate every cab in the City, like Google Maps with icons. You would be able to find the nearest cab anywhere and speak with the driver on the phone. Of course, the cab companies are blocking this application, and letting people like you do their politics for them, to convince the City that more medallions are needed. MORE CABS DOES NOT MEAN BETTER SERVICE, it only means more profits for the companies. Service does not begin until the passenger is in the cab, and it takes DISPATCH to do that! The SFMTA is only being asked for about 4% back of the ten million dollars they have gotten from the cab drivers - I said the cab drivers ALONE, not the companies. Your remark about there not being enough cabs is the type of thing that is being used by greedy companies and ignorant MTA Board members like Malcom Heinecke to hurt some very poor people, who live in seedy hotels, even in their own cars; the City is allowing the companies to disobey the law requiring these and all other drivers from even getting health care THEY HAVE ALREADY PAID FOR and for which they continue to pay. A cool million has been paid by these un-Medallioned drivers - the poorest of the poor, and though the City Attorney's Office has noticed the MTA that this leaves the MTA liable the MTA goes on doing it. The MTA is NOT SUPPOSED TO BE IN THE CAB BUSINESS. And they deflect the meaning of the word "service" into the expression of the supposed need for more cabs.<br /><br />To the Paratransit Coordinating Council: You made the right decision NOT to send any recommendation on at this time. The piecemeal approach to medallions keeps the companies competitive for your service, and allows the drivers to arise from wherever they may come. However, if you want to commit to the use of certain companies, I suggest you make them actually compete for this itself; this could lead to the award of a contract (which could be with multiple comanies), but you would have the opportunity to get them to sign on to your needs. (I don't recommend this.) On this point the only remark I think needs to be made is that Yellow is incompetent to compete here, as it is incompetent in almost all things. The very idea of its survival due to a flood of medallions is a horror!Christopher Fulkerson, Ph.D.http://christopherfulkerson.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2708859863717325805.post-79224881171553413092011-05-25T10:42:12.660-07:002011-05-25T10:42:12.660-07:00me and most of my friends stopped using cabs becau...me and most of my friends stopped using cabs because there's just too few in the city. if i can never get a cab, i'll just bike.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2708859863717325805.post-73090463438362218872011-05-24T23:57:52.356-07:002011-05-24T23:57:52.356-07:00I doubt that Stu needs me to defend him but I susp...I doubt that Stu needs me to defend him but I suspect that Stu can think for himself...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11179898107502732359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2708859863717325805.post-87203329075450792182011-05-24T14:11:41.870-07:002011-05-24T14:11:41.870-07:00Hi Athan,
Thanks for clearing that up.
I guess...Hi Athan, <br /><br />Thanks for clearing that up. <br /><br />I guess Stu's motion must have come from a spontaneous insight or maybe in a dream. Maybe God talks to him.<br /><br />I've gotten the figure of 500 from a number of people.<br /><br />In any case, I be at the next meeting and should be able to report it more accurately.<br /><br />EdCrocker Amazonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14344354862430937003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2708859863717325805.post-14280740333221542432011-05-24T13:29:48.733-07:002011-05-24T13:29:48.733-07:00A lot of this is inaccurate. I'm not on the PC...A lot of this is inaccurate. I'm not on the PCC and never have been, Green Cab however is. I don't recall anyone "talking" the PCC into voting for 500 more cabs. The PCC motion as I recall was made by Stu and is "to draft a letter to board of Supervisors & the mayor to add more cabs and that ramp medallions be directed to companies that have worked with the Pcc". That is a far cry from the much hyped rumors that are spreading like wildfire.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11179898107502732359noreply@blogger.com