Zone make me crazy and I hate cabs in D.C. I am actually surprised I haven't been in a serious altercation with a taxi driver. Just in the last 2 weeks I have taken 4 trips to National Airport - same pick-up, same drop-off, same number of bags, and 4 different fares. The lowest was $12 and the highest $18.50. I have only lived in cities with metered cabs and have been dealing with these idiots for too many years here in D.C. But reading THIS really put a smile on my face... could it be true, we are finally getting meters and I won't have to get pissed off to the point of fighting every time I get out of a cab?? yeah!
"D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D) said today he will sign a mayoral order mandating that taxis switch from a zone system to time-and-distance meters."
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
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Still don't know the deadline for compliance in all cabs. I hate the zone system with a passion, especially after riding around in so many NYC cabs. It's good to see that finally something really stupid has been dealt with accordingly.
I usually try to take the Metro everywhere just so I don't have to deal with the stupid zone system of the cabs. On our 10th wedding anniversary, I took my wife and daughter to Jean-Louis at the Watergate (now closed) for dinner, and we took a cab home so we could have wine and drinks. I remember asking the cabbie what the fare back to Springfield would be...he thought for a minute, then wrote a figure on the palm of his hand and showed it to me. That was when I realized how screwed up our taxi system is. Good Man, Mr Fenty!
Allow me to share that a sincere effort at researching the corrupt origin of the DC taxicab zone system will allow everyone one day to know that DC initially had used a meter to compute DC taxicab fares.
Just a brief review of the facts of the corrupt origin of the DC taxicab zone system will direct everyone to read the Washinton Post having once published an editorial entitled, "The Taxicab Rider" on Novemver 13, 1971.
This one editorial and a few very shallow newspaper articles over the past 76 years briefly refer to the Congressional legislative tricks that Congress has pulled since 1934 through the very insulting DC Appropriations Act that had for many years completely disallowed the DC government any authority to even,"consider of enforce any rules or regulations made in regards to installing meters in DC taxicabs."
Congress has received the cheapest and most reliable taxicab service as a result of the very insulting and inequitable design of the very unique DC taxicab zone system fare structure.
My brief and detailed research on the little known facts of the corrupt origin of the DC taxicab zone system is available via google.com under the subject- "Karl Rudder's Blog".
Politicians and the news media have been able to hide the Truth of the corrupt origin of the DC taxicab industry for 76 years.
DC residents, taxicab drivers and tourists will not be able to see a sincere address and solution to this problem until we are fluent with the Congressional corruption of the unique DC taxicab zone system. (Especially as so many of us are enjoying a bus or subway ride!)
I dare the DC Taxicab Commission, the DC City Council or the Washington Post to pass out a questionnaire to people at the Metro subway station and ask the respondents to just indicate how many times they had taken a DC taxicab in the past month.
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