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Tag Archives: california
My First Hail Using Cabulous
I’ve been advising the team working on Cabulous, a new mobile location-enabled app that makes it easier for cabbies to advertise their locations — and for passengers to find them. I drove last Saturday and helped with an early beta … Continue reading
Posted in internets, taxi, tech
Tagged android, app, application, at&t, blackberry, ca, cab, cabbie, cabulous, california, gps, gps-enabled, hail, iphone, location, location-aware, location-enable, mobile application, san francisco, sf, taxi, taxicab, taxis, transit, transportation, web
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“Sunday Streets” delights bikers, frustrates drivers along Embarcadero
When the Chronicle ran a story about Mayor Gavin Newsom’s idea for “Sunday Streets” I was a bit skeptical. I wasn’t so sure that we needed another street closure, especially on a Sunday when so many tourists rely on the … Continue reading
Posted in politics, transit
Tagged bicycles, bike, bikes, california, city, gavin, infrastructure, mayor, newsom, planning, public, san francisco, sf, space, sunday, sunday streets, transit, transport
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Driving: Lawyers, reporters and crackheads, oh my.
Sunday was a busy and good day, buoyed by City events and nice weather. Monday and Tuesday were a bit slow. As usual, I picked up a few lawyers going to or from work. (Work seems to always be the … Continue reading
Posted in media, taxi, work
Tagged addict, bavc, bayvac, blog, blogging, ca, cab, cabbie, california, Canada, cocaine, com, crack, crackheads, cray, dot, driving, drug, drugs, internets, law, law school, lawyers, local, market, media, news, Philippines, reporters, reporting, san francisco, school, sf, soma, south, south of market, startup, taxi, taxicab, television, tender, tenderloin, tendersoma, tourism, tv
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Cab driving: earnings update
Time for an earnings update. My earnings floor — the lowest take-home pay I can expect — is increasing from the record lows of the winter. In other words, it’s rare this time of year to see a shift that … Continue reading
Posted in econ, taxi, work
Tagged average, ca, cab, cabbie, california, cents, chart, cluster, dollars, driver, driving, earnings, euro, gas, gas prices, graph, historical, how, how much does a cab driver earn, inflation, many, mean, median, mode, money, much, pay, prices, san francisco, sf, shift, summer, take-home, taxi, taxicab, tourist
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Thank a DPT traffic control officer today.
DPT officers get a bad rap. Everyone seems to despise them, yet they are a crucial element necessary to help all of us to effectively share our City streets. Here are a few of the ways they make our lives … Continue reading
Posted in econ, politics, transit
Tagged authority, california, charge, cleaning, curbed, department, double, double-park, dpt, fee, fine, generate, income, mta, municipal, municipality, officer, park, parking, parking ticket, revenue, san francisco, sf, sfmta, street, street cleaning, ticket, traffic, transit, transportation, wheels
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Driving a slow weekend in the City
It was another slow weekend in San Francisco. During my shifts I witnessed a non-trivial collision. A Toyota pickup truck was traveling behind me south on South Van Ness. As we approached the 16th Street intersection he passed me on … Continue reading
Posted in econ, politics, taxi, work
Tagged aid, attempts, ca, cab, california, car, caravan, career, Chrysler, city, cost, counseling, culture, dodge, downtown, durango, english, espanol, gallon, gas, gas mileage, help, homeless, intrepid, language, left, mexican, mexico, mileage, miles, mpg, oil, per, poverty, price, program, rent, right, san francisco, sf, spanish, speaking, subsidy, taxi, taxicab
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Something Muni does well: Trolleybusses
I am so fond of ragging on San Francisco’s poorly managed Municipal Railway that I often overlook Muni’s remarkable, world-class achievements. (Yes, they really do have some remarkable, world-class achievements.) This post is a first attempt at fixing my glaring … Continue reading
Posted in transit
Tagged bus, busses, california, coal, dam, diesel, electric, electricity, generation, hetch, hetch hetchy, hetchy, mta, muni, municipal, nuclear, o'shaughnessy, power, railway, san francisco, sf, transit, transportation, trolley, trolleybus, trolleybusses
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Driving highlights
I drove 3 shifts in the past 3 days. One of them starts early at 5 am, the other two are graveyard shifts starting at 1 am. Each lasts 11 hours. During my shifts I picked up two young, professional … Continue reading
Posted in taxi, work
Tagged bretagne, britain, british, cab, california, commonwealth, english, francais, France, french, gate, golden, golden gate bridge, indiana, iowa, japan, japanese, midwest, nice, nova, saint-brieuc, san francisco, sf, taxi, taxicab, teacher, teaching, tourist, travel, trip, Visit
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