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New Orleans Gets Vending Machine-Equipped Taxis
Occasionally, you’ll luck out and climb into a taxi cab with such amenities as free tissues, discarded newspapers or all the tourist pamphlets you can carry. But if you find yourself in New Orleans, you might end up in one of the 250 vehicles in the Orleans Carriage Cab fleet that now feature soda-dispensing vending machines.
Sydney Travel Gets Classy As Uber Launches In Australia
There are a swathe of apps you can use around the country to order a cab to wherever you want to go. The problem with those is that once you get in, it’s still the same, old taxi experience. Transport start-up, Uber, launched the US last year, and the concept is perfect: order a private, luxury car to where you are via an app, relax on your journey, and get out knowing that the journey has already been charged to your credit card. Sounds awesome, right? Well the good news here is that Uber has just opened for business in Australia.
Jump The Taxi Queue? There’s An App For That
Ingogo, a mobile app that lets you hail cabs and monitor their location via GPS, has proved popular among Sydneysiders, according to a story published today on SMH. It’s also been painted as potentially illegal, circumventing traditional booking methods via websites and phone and, as expected, has become a source of consternation for the industry’s peak body, the NSW Taxi Council.
Taxi Of Tomorrow Design Contest Results In Elaborate Cycling Death Trap
Drivers need to be better about seeing cyclists and sharing the road, and vice versa. This is undeniable. The Tunnel Taxi, however, is not the solution to this problem.
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