News About Taxi
The fee for a taxi would be fixed.
06/03/2010 - meeting.lv
In Vilnius, plans to introduce a fixed fee for passengers traveling from the International Vilnius airport to the center of the capital.
Thus, the City Council will deal with dishonest drivers, vozyaschimi passengers at higher fares.
This issue was discussed at the meeting held on Friday, the mayor of Vilnius Vilius Navickas and CEO Thomas Vayshvily airport.
Until October last year, taxi services at the airport had provided only one firm Vilnius - Marton taxi. After the expiration of the contract with this firm Mwape invited all the companies offering taxi services in the capital, to serve passengers from the airport. Contracts were signed with three companies - Pigus taxi "," Myarsyalita and Marton taxi.
Now the average cost of taxi services - 6 Liters per kilometer and 9 Liters per landing.
In early February, it was found that two drivers Martono taksi five times higher than the established fees taximeter.
Living in Germany Münster can not only comfortably ride in a taxi, but also sing a favorite song.
06/03/2010 - 1tv.ru
The taxi driver from the German city of Munster combine business with pleasure. At first, he just sang for their passengers, and then decided not to be distracted from the road and set in a karaoke machine. Now all anyone can pass the time, singing a favorite song.
And some passengers is so much that they even asked to take them to work, with songs to get home.
Who can say that for such a serious form of hiding the soul of a DJ? This is probably the only taxi driver in Germany, which includes the passenger first song, and only then - counter.
Nitsametin Kilinkli, a taxi driver: "People have asked me to put a CD or listen to the radio. And one time someone said:" I want to sing! "I thought, why not. I've never heard of a club-karaoke wheels.
Typically, passengers do not realize, in a taxi sit. Outside - the car, like a machine, no inscriptions and decorations. Only when they see the microphones on the seat, understand: something wrong here. Someone, however, hesitate to sing, and someone said: Hey, driver, make me another circle!
Alex Ulrich, passenger transport service: "Class, super, kick-ass contraption!" When we return to the six in the morning, and you pick us, we still do not sing well. "
No contemporary singers in a karaoke cab can not compare in popularity with the old German hit 80. Eternal hit "Gross social product" will give odds to any holders of the Grammy. There is a music library in a taxi and Russian songs.
Marek Zuhe: "As a child I heard the Russian song, I do not remember how exactly is ..." White roses "?..."
"White Rose", "Purple haze", and of course, "Zelenoglazoe taxi" - all of these songs are in the collection of Munster taxi karaoke.
Dima, Zina and Mary, who are studying in Germany, went on a student's party fun, but it turned out - fun in a karaoke cab.
Sometimes the driver is going through. What if tomorrow will be asked not to put the old songs, but something new?
Nitsametin Kilinkli, taxi driver: "The old songs, they, nevertheless, the old. It is necessary that people had an alternative. For example, rap-karaoke for young people." Karaoke taxis can not be distinguished from Russia route. Already waiting: now you will be asked to allocate for travel. By the way, a good idea for drivers of our minibuses: passengers riding the gray morning at work and sing your favorite songs. But who knows, maybe in your town already has a karaoke on wheels?
Want to spend Saturday night at the bar?
06/03/2010 - zman.com
Taxi!
If the night from Friday to Saturday, you going to a bar or an exclusive club, where, among other treats to sell alcohol, call a taxi, and leave your car parked outside the house: in this case, the festivities will be cheaper than if you sit behind the wheel.
1300 fines were discharged traffic police in just one night.
According to Israeli public radio, 50 drivers were on the ground disenfranchised for serious violations of traffic rules, mostly - for exceeding the permissible speed.
40 cars "rejected": taxi drivers can not appear on the road for as long as they do not repair his car.
In the center of the country and in the northern district of nightclubs and pubs 77 drivers sat behind the wheel drunk, but the traffic police were not dozing: to stop the violators and deprived of their rights for 30 days.
Americans love quick and easy three-wheeled taxis.
05/03/2010 - newizv.ru
Snowfalls, passed recently in the eastern part of America, all pretty scared. But there is one category of citizens who were very glad to unusually heavy snow and severe cold. This is a New York taxi drivers. The fact is that in recent times they have appeared quite serious competitors in a trishaw. The new three-wheeled bicycles with a cabin for two passengers is easy to maneuver in dense traffic flow, traffic jams and riding are a convenient means of transportation for a growing number of New Yorkers. A similar pattern and in Boston.
Over the last five years after the first appearance in Boston pedicabs this type of transport has become commonplace for citizens. Owners of tour companies continuously increase their exotic state transport enterprises and expand the boundaries of areas serviced by fast cabbies. Use as a driving force for conventional and low-cost three-wheel bicycle, high cross, and security have made this type of transport is not only popular with tourists, but also hurrying to work Bostonians.
Trishaw allows travelers to leisurely to learn an unfamiliar city and admire the architectural masterpieces and historic monuments, to make stops at shops and cafes. Modern tourists, armed digital camera and camcorder, it is important to make a qualitative snapshot of the memory, moving "with the wind" on the street, and not through the dusty glass of the bus and their heads around the passengers.
In New York, rickshaws transport law amounting to a taxi. Managed cyclists exotic trucks, like any other road transport, must pass an annual inspection. Cyclist on the road the driver is forced to obey all traffic rules, signs and traffic light signals. Owners and drivers of bicycle crews acquire licenses for operation of tourist transport and insurance for themselves and passengers.
In Boston, Boston Pedicab company already tough competition for urban taxis. Ability to bring pedicabs on the phone even during the day, even at night, the instantaneous arrival rickshaws, for example, to the restaurant, the delivery of heavy bags back home, transporting viewers to the evening concerts, film shows and sports matches to private cars that appeared on the distant city parking make this an exotic form of transport more attractive.
Recent and new service Boston pedicabs - the organization of wedding ceremonies and escorts when the cavalcade of bicycle carts with the bride, groom and guests rides around the city center. It enjoys a huge success among young people. It is also important that all cycle-rickshaws - they are students of local universities. Ability to communicate with a young, intelligent and educated student driver from Harvard attracts passengers not less than flexible, and affordable prices visit, where neg.
Students go to work cyclists, because so they can earn decent money for summer vacation, to improve their physical form. Competition among candidates is quite big, and transport companies constantly raise the requirements for future drivers. For example, the candidate should have a good cyclist speak in English, well oriented and know the geography of Boston and its suburbs. The driver must be strong and resilient, while remaining polite and punctual throughout the entire 8 - hour workday. At the entrance exam young man or woman should be able to move on pedicabs loaded with 250-400 pounds at a certain distance within a few hours.
Advertisers, too, lined up to the organizers of the alternate traffic, because traffic flows in the presence of bright bicycle carts with attractive driver attracts hundreds of eyes to her potential customers advertising products.
With regard to New York, the profession of pedicabs in Manhattan has a rare and registered drivers bicycle carts a little more than 200 people. Less in New York only professional cabbies, twenty well-dressed horse carriages are decorated with central avenues and alleys of the park. However, despite the fact that New York's pedicabs major role in the movement of citizens of the city until recently has not played, they suddenly appeared opponents. And seriously - the drivers of the famous yellow taxis. In 2009, the New York taxi drivers to sound the alarm in connection with the fall of their income in a difficult time of crisis. The new three-wheeled bicycles with a cabin for two passengers began using the residents and tourists an unprecedented popularity. They quickly moved through the city, not afraid of traffic jams. And only with the onset of cold weather and snowfall in the demand for rickshaws fell, which is understandable. Taxi drivers triumphed!
All Greek taxi drivers on strike.
02/03/2010 - NEWSru.com
Thirty thousand taxi drivers began a two-day strike on March 2 in Greece, speaking against the financial measures of the government. According to the president of the National Federation of Taxi Drivers Efthimios Liberopoulos, the strike involved nearly 100% of taxi drivers.
In the capital of Greece, a convoy of 400 cars went to the country's parliament and the Ministry of Finance for action, which can block traffic on the main streets of the city.
Greek taxi drivers have already conducted "pre-emptive" strike on February 11 in protest against increasing the gasoline tax, because of which the price of fuel has jumped about 15%, and against the requirements of the Ministry of Finance on the run drivers books.
According Liberopoulos, many car taxi used in three shifts around the clock, so the division of revenues and expenses is impossible. All taxis equipped with meters, which is being paid. However, receipts and checks issued to taxi drivers rarely - only when requested by passengers themselves.
In the absence of opportunities to count income of taxi-drivers, each of them pays the tax office a fixed amount of 16 thousand euros per year. The new demands of the Greek Government intended to replenish the state treasury due to the introduction of new taxes to combat evasion of them, as well as the reduction of salaries.
Public sector workers' union, which opposes the reduction of salaries and bonuses, today announced a new 24-hour strike. This will be the third such event in recent times. As a result of previous large-scale daily strikes on 10 and 24 February, it was interrupted aviation communication in Greece. 8 th and 9 th of March going on strike, and employees of tax inspections, had already made similar protests on February 4.
Latvian police officer moonlighting as a taxi driver.
02/03/2010 - lenta.ru
In the Latvian city of Jelgava during a police raid was stopped by a taxi that has not been time-tested. It later emerged that the driver himself is a member of the patrol police and the taxi driver only moonlight. For the fact that the car did not pass inspection, the taxi driver face a fine of 40 lats (about 76 dollars). The police in connection with the scheduled inspection. Is known, however, that the police (reported that his name Maris), carrying passengers while off duty, so that its main activity underworking taxi did not interfere.
On the streets of Japan operates amphibian taxi.
01/03/2010 - NEWS
In Japan, have found ways to bypass traffic jams. In an experiment on the street fired a taxi amphibian, which can at any time move out from the carriageway and continue along the path. City taxi drivers are already exploring the navigation, but the passengers are getting used to the new mode of transport.
In Osaka, Vehicle type, busily floating down the river, it is no surprise. Taxis are not only riding the roads, but the water did not drown. On land, the machine can be taken as an army SUV. These cars, by the way, this definition fits the best way possible. Outside the roads they travel is excellent, although for him, too bad.
Before going down to the water is checked at the oil. After all, this ship, and a car, so the attention of such a machine requires at least twice. "In the water, the car develops a speed of up to 7 knots. It moves through the rear propeller and the direction is given by turning the front wheels" - explains the cross-country taxi driver Masahiro Nakamura.
For the majority of taxi passengers is still an exotic attraction. Fare, by the way, almost four times more than the land machine. But the impression overflowing.
"I really liked the unusual, even on the roof seating. I wish that all cars can also move through the water. I think it makes sense to begin to equip with such a function even if ambulances and fire," - says the Japanese Eiji Hirano.
Despite the car interior, within the illusion of staying on the ship. For the taxi driver, it is important to know not only the rules of the road, but also possess the skills for navigation.
"When you go on the water main to ensure that the time is not intercepted you control over the management of the car" - said the taxi driver Masahiro Nakamura.
Workload on the roads makes the Japanese to lay alternative routes. It has recently spoken of Osaka taxi drivers, all you need to do - a fair wind, and seven feet under the wheel.
Experience of using all-terrain taxi showed that this type of transport is the future. Soon, these machines will appear in the rivers of Tokyo and other Japanese cities. Although skeptics believe that if this will solve the problem of congestion, then a short time. Apparently, for this they will need not only fly, but fly through the air.
In Mexico, the taxi came to drunk people.
12/10/2009 - Oreanda News
Special services for people who got the normal dose of alcohol injected Mexican authorities. Citizens under the influence of alcohol can now dial the simple figures "5533" on your mobile phone to be "evacuated" from the playground to the house.
Mexican authorities have introduced this measure in order to combat motor vehicle accidents. A large number of them happening in the country due to the fact that the drivers are driving drunk. Often they do not want to get behind the wheel in impermissible state, but they have to do is to get to the house, ITAR-TASS.
Now for the drivers "under the weather" will operate a special taxi. Owners of cars that have "moved the norm" will not only bring home, of course, not free, but also to ensure the safety of the vehicle owner's car, which is unable to control it.
First, the measure of the Mexican authorities aimed at ensuring the safety of youth. That is, young people often sit behind the wheel in Mexico "in any" state, intending to get home. Very often, this conduct led to very unfortunate consequences.
Stockholm bus drivers cause a taxi for passengers.
11.10.2009, TRAVEL.RU
In Stockholm, a new service for passengers of public transport - particularly buses and high-speed tram Roslagstag. The drivers of these types of transport will be able to call a taxi for its passengers.
Service free of charge and is aimed at increasing the level of comfort for passengers who do not want to go from the bus stop on foot - for the arrival of the bus will be waiting there already ordered a taxi. While the innovation is applicable only to the northern suburbs of the capital, and a taxi may be due to a limited number of stops, but there are plans to extend the service throughout the Stockholm region.
British drunks will be distributed to homes on a free taxi.
06/10/2009, Lenta.RU
British drunks will be down to their homes at a special free taxi. As writes The Daily Mail, this idea occurred to the police, the small town of Wotton, located in the county of Norfolk in eastern England. According to the authors of the project, the initiative will be implemented with funds coming into the treasury of the taxpayers.
The meaning of innovation is as follows: in the evenings at weekends taxis will ply on the busy streets of the city, pick up all the drunken pedestrians, and carries them home. Wotton authorities believe that this will significantly reduce the percentage of breaches of public order committed by drunken people of the settlement.
Police Sergeant Lance Odzhborn (Lance Ogbourne), one of the sponsors of the initiative, said that the real opportunity to secure the inhabitants of the town - one of the major pluses of the proposed project. "The adoption of new measures will help us clean up the streets of any suspicious subjects. After drinking, these people tend to just roam the city. They do not call a taxi, and therefore can be dangerous to others", - said the source publication.
Meanwhile, the project found and critics. Thus, many believe that free transportation overdo it with alcohol Britons not only adversely affect the budget Wotton, but will become a propaganda drinking. "Young people can safely go to a bar and drink without worrying about the consequences. They will know that their dovezut to the house, so even free," - complained about City Councilman Wotton, 75-year-old Alf Harvey (Alf Harvey).
Anyway, in the next three months drunken residents Wotton will be able to use the services of a free taxi, which will run all weekend from 23:30 until 02:00 at night. How much money was allocated from the Treasury on the organization of the system deliver a drunken, but not specified.
In that case, if the project succeeds, similar to a taxi will appear in other UK cities.
Woman gives birth in a taxi on the way to hospital.
15.07.2009, NEWSru.co.il
30-year-old woman gave birth in a taxi in the vicinity of interchanges Horashim Road Number 6 (Cross-Israel Highway).
Childbirth has a taxi driver, using instructions dispatch service Magen David Adom on the phone.
Deliveries were successfully girl was born. Employees of an ambulance service Magen David Adom maternal and baby were taken to hospital "Laniado" in Netanya. Both mother and baby are doing well.
Problems with Estonian taxi.
"If you introduce a common fare for mileage, easy to guess which of the currently existing will be selected, - says Oleg Tallinn taxi driver, representing a small firm. - Now, for example, our firm has three different values: day (4.5 crowns per km), night (6 crowns) and the so-called "from pillar" that is, from the taxi (10 kroner). If the city asks the taxi driver question - on what basis it carries more customers at night, the taxi driver may ask the city counter-question. "And with what you have decided that the night is more expensive? Night tariff - there is a major, and in the daytime We carry customers at a discount, - says Oleg. - So with the introduction of a single tariff would deprive the city Tallinners benefits.
China will produce Renault taxi.
PARIS. May 12. VOSTOK-MEDIA - The second-largest carmaker in Europe France's Renault signed an agreement with Chinese automaker Dongfeng Motor Corp. the organization of an assembly joint venture. For Dongfeng joint venture with Renault the fifth in a row. Largest partner Dongfeng 80-ies supports French Citroen, which to date has provided the whole of China for its taxis. At present, joint investments Citroen-Dongfeng in automanufacture reached $ 756 million.
New Volvo in Dubai airport.
Committee on Roads and Transport in Dubai (RTA), has provided for the International Airport of the country thirty new cars Volvo.
Taxi Volvo, equipped with a satellite navigation system and DVD-player, and also very convenient and comfortable for passengers.
Taxi drivers, who are chosen directly RTA, received special training course for drivers, say several
languages and trained in the polite with customers.
Currently in Dubai airport operate 258 taxis, including two vehicles for people with disabilities
opportunities. For women, the passengers who do not want to travel with a male driver, taxi services provide
vehicles whose roofs are painted in pink, drivers of these taxis are also women.