D.C. Wire Archive: D.C. Taxis
Gray to lift $19 cap on fares, says taxicab chairman
Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D) has ordered the Taxicab Commission to lift a $19 cap on taxicab fares, according to commission Chairman Leon Swain, who testified at D.C. Council oversight hearing Tuesday. Gray's instructions to adjust the city's rulemaking to lift the cap is in keeping with the D.C. Council's...
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Nikita R Stewart
| February 22, 2011; 5:41 PM ET |
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Leon Swain, Vincent C. Gray, cap, fares, mayor, meters, taxicabs, zone
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Voters can stamp 'Fenty' on ballots
Voters who plan to write in Mayor Adrian M. Fenty on their ballots in the Nov. 2 general election won't even have to write. With early voting starting tomorrow at five satellite sites in D.C. neighborhoods, The Write Fenty In Campaign has armed volunteers with "stampers" that they are giving to to those who want to cast their vote for Fenty even though his name is not on the ballot.
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Tim Craig
| October 22, 2010; 3:20 PM ET |
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D.C. taxi drivers say their complaints are still not heard
Updated 11:11 a.m. A five-mile ride with a five-minute wait in the District costs $11.50, the lowest in the region, according to a study by an economist on behalf of two taxicab groups. Kara Gorski, vice president of District-based Edgewoth Economics, told taxicab commissioners that her firm looked at surrounding...
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Nikita Stewart
| June 16, 2010; 10:46 AM ET |
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D.C. taxi commission chair a no-show at council
The star witness planned for the council's hearing today on the taxi industry was a no-show. To the consternation of council members on the dais, the Fenty administration declined to make D.C. Taxicab Commission Chairman Leon J. Swain Jr. available this afternoon because of his role in an ongoing federal...
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Anne Bartlett
| January 7, 2010; 6:01 PM ET |
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Graham gives up taxicab industry oversight
D.C. Council member Jim Graham (D-Ward 1) is giving up his oversight of the city's taxicab issues after his chief of staff was arrested last month for allegedly taking a bribe from a member of the industry. Graham sent council Chairman Vincent C. Gray (D) a letter Monday asking that...
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Washington Post Editors
| October 19, 2009; 5:31 PM ET |
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Graham Aides Won't Be Testifying After All
The two staffers for D.C. Council member Jim Graham (D-Ward 1) who were subpoenaed as part of the federal investigation of the city's taxicab industry will not be testifying before the grand jury, according to sources in Graham's office. David Vacca and Steve Hernandez, both of whom work for the...
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Washington Post Editors
| October 8, 2009; 12:55 PM ET |
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City Life, D.C. Council, D.C. Taxis, Tim Craig
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David Vacca, Jim Graham, Steve Hernandez, Ted G. Loza
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