Somebody in your group will have either been bombarded by an illegal front-man or woman for a taxi mafia; experienced a driver who refuses to use the metre or been dumped when the driver finds a passenger headed for Pattaya or another. …

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KELOWNA – Starting Saturday morning, water taxi and ground shuttle service will be available to transport people who are affected by the road closure on Highway 97, announced Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Kevin Falcon.

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A federal judge on Friday blocked New York City from requiring owners and operators of yellow taxicabs to switch to more fuel-efficient hybrid vehicles that operate on a mixture of gasoline and electricity.

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Mayor Mike Bloomberg proposed his hybrid taxi plan as an unfunded mandate on taxi owners to switch to hybrid vehicles even though there are insufficient numbers of taxis that qualify for taxi use while maintaining current comfort levels …

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After a little searching, I found this article from last week out of the Toronto area, which included this complaint, “…the US government has spent $168 million to combat the Asian long-horned beetle while Canadian spending is …

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So my recent trip to Milan found me being very obviously conned by a taxi driver, now at this point I don’t want to single out a nationality for conning passengers out of their money, I’m an equal opportunity blogger I’ve been conned …

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While the guy was bagging up the sand for us he decided that he wasn´t going to transport it for us after all. He gave us our money back and said he would find us a moto-taxi (a motorcycle with a buggy on the back) that would take it to …

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As we were about to leave the Christian Clinic our missionary host mentioned to us that riding in the taxis are an ‘extreme sport’ in this country. Well, today we had lots of that. We jumped in the taxi to visit the kids. …

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Thanks to my Lonely Planet guide, I had a good idea about the layout of the airport, and where to find an ATM and a taxi to get us to our hotel. Alix (my nickname for my wife – most people know her as Martha) and I retrieved our bags, …

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To order a taxi by phone you need to give your address, & the address of your destination, your contact number and your name. Taxis arrive pretty quickly and are reliable but can vary from newish models to battered old ladas! …

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