NEW YORK CITY - Mayor Bloomberg has finally announced what up until now had only been a rumor and that is that effective January 15, 2012, every yellow taxi-cab in the five New York City boroughs will be pained green.
The mayor informed a crowd of...
Taxi drivers the length and breadth of the country are up in arms at a proposal by the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities that all cabbies should wear a cap and uniform to make them appear more friendly that they sometimes appear.
The chairm...
A taxi driver in the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires is celebrating today after breaking the World Land Speed record over a distance of 10 metres.
The driver, named by police only as 'Miguel', broke the record when he took flight from his vehicl...
The governor of Punjab Province, Pakistan, Salman Taseer, was shot nine times on Jan. 4, 2011 in Pakistan by one of his guards. He had spoken out against the country's controversial blasphemy laws, under which a Christian woman is being sentenced to death for allegedly insulting the prophet if Islam.
However, for many centuries, societies in Asia, Asia Minor, Middle East, Africa etc have exper...
Following mayor Bloomberg's appeal to the cab riding public, requests for ideas on an adequate replacement for the Ford Crown Victoria cab standard were met with overwhelming agreement for a bright yellow Mini Cooper in a four door model.
Requirin...
LAS VEGAS, NV - Police in Las Vegas say a woman disrobed in the back seat of a taxi and demanded that the driver "take her home". When the driver failed to understand what she wanted, she stole his cab.
Acting Chief Joseph Chronister told The Las...
A Leicester taxi driver handed out leaflets today in the city asking the public to refrain from knee-jerk reactions over alleged cases of sexual abuse by priests on children and subsequent cover-ups by the Church.
The leaflet stated quite calmly t...
The Mayor of London's Transport Secretary, Kulveer Ranger, announced today plans to phase out the world famous Cockney Black Cab, citing the popular mode of transport, 'expensive and unintelligible' for a modern London.
At a news conference, Mr.
In a madcap bid to save the planet (and shorten the dole queue) Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has backed an audacious plan to ban all motorised vehicles from UK City Centres.
The plan, developed by the IPCC, is to make use of the thousands of rick...
In Chicago, Illinois, a 64-year-old taxi driver has a simple explanation of why he returned a bag containing items worth a lot of money to a Florida woman, saying, "It wasn't mine."
Niki Pecker of Naples, Fla., was in Chicago during the weekend w...
A New York cab driver, from the borough of Queens, who was reported missing for 10 days, has been located in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria.
The taxi driver was in good health and appears to have not suffered any duress apart from a little tiredn...
Lontax, the London black taxi manufacturer with the name loathed by the Chancellor because he didn't think to register it himself as a stealth tax for Londoners, has today confirmed the sale of 100 of their taxis to the Taliban in Afghanistan.
A s...
Manila Philippines- An honest cabbie earned praise Sunday for returning a bag filled with 1.5 million pesos in cash to a masked man who left the money inside his taxicab earlier this week.
Brandino Baruda, a driver for VA (Value-Added) taxi, retur...
Top UK scientist Professor Hugh Jarse was today able to reveal the mysterious cause of recent black cab fires in London.
"After extensive research and interviews with drivers I can now reveal the cause of the hitherto unexplained events." said Pro...
London's famous Black Cabs are deliberately setting themselves on fire and taking copycat action in, what the capital's top policeman Sir Ian Blair is calling, Taximeter 3: The Rise Of The Machines.
Commissioner Blair, that one who is in racism t...
Hundreds of black cabs in London are to undergo safety checks over fears they may burst into flames.
About 500 vehicles have been recalled after seven engine fires were reported in London in the past three months.
Taxi drivers believe that a...
The on-going doctors' strike in Maharashtra forced a woman to deliver in a cab late Saturday evening.
Local Government officials today clashed with taxi drivers over the imposition of a 20mph speed limit on an estate in Liverpool.