Today could be a tough day to hail a cab in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Some area taxi drivers went on strike, demanding increased regulation of ride-service apps like Uber and Lyft. As Boston radio ...
CAMBRIDGE (CBS) – Taxi drivers in Cambridge went on a one-day strike Monday to protest ride-sharing services. They picketed outside city hall and took up a lane on Massachusetts Avenue during rush ...
A group representing Cambridge cab company drivers and owners is suing the city over what it says are "burdensome and costly" regulations that aren't applied to ride-hailing companies like Uber and ...
Your business is suffering, but nobody really feels bad for you because your service sucks and you’ve enjoyed a government-sanctioned monopoly for decades, so what do you do? Tie up traffic and ...
WEBVTT LUCK. EMILY: THE EYE'S JIM LOKAY IS AT CITY HALL WITH THE STRIKE GETTING UNDERWAY THIS MORNING. JIM: GOOD MORNING. ACROSS THE CITY FROM CITY HALL IS A CAB STAND. THAT'S ALL THE CABS WILL BE ...
Taxi companies have routinely called foul on cities for allowing app-based ride services like Uber to cruise the streets without facing the same local regulations that govern cabs. But in Cambridge, ...
Nope, they didn’t. This move is long overdue at a time when the cab industry faces lethal competition from companies like Uber who attract users with their convenient payment method. And it’s ...
R. Seth Riney, a local entrepreneur and Yale graduate, made a resolution on New Year’s Day of 2003 to question the way America looks at public transportation. A year and a half later, that resolution ...
Cambridge cabbies took a page from their Paris comrades’ playbook on Monday, staging a strike to protest Uber and other ride-hailing companies that are stealing a growing number of riders. But while ...