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Friday, November 30, 2012

The 200: What Are They Really Getting?

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The top 200 on the Waiting List will be eligible to buy (or whatever arcane verbiage the SFMTA uses) a medallion for $150,000. These drive...
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Monday, November 26, 2012

MTA Kills "Earned" Medallions: Waiting List's Top 200 Can Buy for $150,000

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On Tuesday, 11/20/2012 the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) ended a 34 year old program that rewarded cab drivers wit...
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Monday, November 19, 2012

Taxing the Lower Classes

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President Obama recently won his election with a popular plan to raise taxes on the rich in order to help balance a budget that incl...
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Thursday, November 8, 2012

S. F. Board of Appeals Rejects UTW Appeal

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On Wednesday, the San Francisco Board of Appeals turned down Mark Gruberg's and the United Taxicab Worker's (UTW) appeal to have t...
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Friday, October 26, 2012

Will You Be Owned?

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I've never done this before but it appears to be in a good cause. As reported in The Atlantic (a highly respected magazine). the Su...
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

SFMTA Wants the Waiting List Killed

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Actually they phrased it differently. "Staff recommends that the Board adopt amendments to Transportation Code Sections 1103 and 1...
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Driver's Sue to Stop MTA from Killing the Waiting List

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Cab Drivers Bill Mounsey (photo), Iza Pardinas and Jeffrey Grove along with the United Taxicab Workers and the San Francisco Cab Drivers...
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Crocker Amazon is the nom de blog of Ed Healy. I started this blog in 2009 when Mayor Gavin Newsom tried to steal taxi driver medallion and use them to pay off the San Francisco's 600 million debt. I have used this blog to help inform the public and the people who make decisions about the various issues that arose from this including the Taxi Reform, protests and other changes that followed. I've been driving a cab for 25 years in San Francisco. You can contact me at: amazincrocker@gmail.com I've started a new blog devoted purely to cab Stories at: http://phantomcabstories.blogspot.com/ Comments are welcome but please identify yourself.
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