Talking to taxi drivers who are asking double their normal price.

Taxis and ticket control in public transportation

Songs old and new can be heard in taxis, shops and on young men s phones.

We have trained girls as carpenters, as masons, as security guards, as cab drivers.

Many people can drive a cab, including many who are unemployed, but not so many can get permission to do so in many major cities in Europe and the US.

As Britain s taxi drivers liked to say, she was the best man in the government.

However, it is not necessary to tip taxi drivers and cinema ushers.

It is a type of share taxi system but without timetables or government influence.

Taxis, buses, bikes, scooters, and special purpose vehicles (or vehicles with greater than 17 seats that are more than 50 full) are allowed to travel anywhere in the city.

Taxi drivers put the girls in the cars while the mobs were trying to break the glass and grab the girls out.

The high gasoline prices caused the taxi drivers and teachers to go on strike on 18 February 1974.

Petits taxis are small cars such as a Fiat Uno, Peugeot 206 and similar sized models using diesel as fuel.

Harbour pilots, urban public transportation operators, taxi operators and public notaries

In the area of auto transportation, there is a complete dominance of the male population (the most numerous ones are probably the taxi drivers).

It is these people, Nairobi s poorest residents, who build the buildings, staff the restaurants, drive the taxis, and power the city.

With women in the parliament, and, on rare occasion, behind the wheel of a taxi, things have improved in recent times.

It is not just in New York, Shanghai, or Paris that one finds a mobile telephone in the hands of each passerby. These days, one finds mobile phones in Nairobi taxis and among camel herders in Northern Kenya.

In 50 years, computers might be doing everything from driving taxis to performing routine surgery.

Imagine much of the economy organized like the taxi industry. Most kinds of economic stimulus won t generate more taxis, until entry restrictions are reduced.

Private vehicles and taxis are the primary means of transportation in the city.

Transport Public transport is through public buses from Anbessa City Bus Service Enterprise or blue and white share taxis.

You can t sit in all the taxis driven by those loquacious ambassadors from India and Russia and Haiti, from Pakistan and Ghana and Guatemala.

It is a source of constant delight to me to find cellphones in the hands of the unlikeliest of my fellow citizens taxi drivers, paan wallahs (betel vendors), farmers, and fishermen.

The Polish competition authority learned of an agreement among taxi operators in one Polish city to charge uniform prices.

In Berlin, as in other large German cities, taxis sport the flags of their drivers home countries from Angola to Saudi Arabia.

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Starting June 2009, Gulf Air's Golden Falcon logo was to be on the streets of London, emblazoned on the side of the city's taxi cabs, as part a two year marketing deal.

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You see there are different lines you choose in your own tempo in your own way to follow the line, but you must respect it, more or less.

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Consider an admittedly limited but nonetheless revealing counter example South Africa s booming mini bus taxi industry.

So, when these kind of people and, believe me, it's not just the police that use these taxis in Lagos. We all do. I've been on one of these, and I didn't have a helmet, either.

CA How you take your insights here and actually get them integrated into working business models on the ground, in Indian villages, for example?

Each taxi will drive a more or less fixed route to a set destination and all passengers looking for transport to that destination or somewhere along the route used share one grand taxi.

The fare depends on the distance travelled.

The fare is based on the distance travelled.

And the conventional thing with apartment buildings in this part of the world is you have your tower, and you squeeze a few trees around the edge, and you see cars parked.

Consider the statistics on the duration of unemployment.

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