Sunday, February 12, 2012
New Proposal Taxi fare
801.3 The regular metered fare rates for all trips within the District of Columbia and the Washington Metropolitan Area are as follows: (a) Three dollars ($3) upon entry (drop rate) and first one eighth (1/8) of a mile; (b) Twenty-seven cents ($0.27) for each one eighth (1/8) of a mile after the first one eighth (1/8) of a mile; and (c) The wait rate is twenty-five dollars ($25) per hour.
* Luggage fee – A fee of $.50 per piece of luggage is authorized for each piece of luggage the operator places in his trunk. Briefcases, purses, bags of groceries, and parcels of similar size shall not be considered luggage.
*Additional passenger fee for vans – A $1 per passenger fee may be charged for the second, third and fourth passenger (for a maximum additional passenger fee of three dollars ($3) per trip), in for vans.
With this proposal, drivers who have Vans as taxicabs can charge $1 extra for each additional passenger up to $3. Many drivers will now be worrying about how and when to buy Vans, forgetting that customers in group obviously will not be taking van taxis to save these extra surcharges. This is will lead to more confusion.
Also drivers could charge $0.50 for each small luggage if they handle and place it in the trunk, but not the large and the very large bags.
These regulations will have unintended consequence of discriminating against drivers who happen to be driving sedan taxis and Riders who happen to be riding in van taxis and more ambiguity of what luggage is large enough to not be charged $0.50.
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Dc has unique owner-operator cab industry .Tha nation's capital currently injoys an usually free and open cab industry dominated by an independent drivers who set their own hours .Dc city counsel , Mary Cheh is empowering the taxi chairman , Ron Linton , tob"establish a public vehicle -for-hire licensing quota which provides that the number of new taxicabs vehicle licenses be limited".
This would create a medallion system , plain and simple . Limiting the number of taxi permits means they ' ll become expensive and scare. It's the same arrangement that ' s caused endemic can shortages in new york city.
Mary cheh 's bill is also. A gift to Companies that own taxi. Fleets. Today,those firms make most of their money by renting vehicles to drivers.it's not an exceptionally lucrative business because essentially they're just providing drivers with a car and a meter. But all existing cabs would be grandfathered in under the new system, so all those cabs for rent would suddenly have medallion attached to them. This would boost the value of those fleet companies many times over, since now drivers would have to rent a car and medallion .
Hello Mr. Kuskey
Correction about your comments:
Mary Cheh's Bill is not a gift to companies:
If you read the Bill Very carefully, you would understand that only a handful of companies (may be fewer than ten, out of 115 companies) will get some.
Some of the requirement: a)Company must be in taxi business and owned rentals before March 2006. b) Must file and paid Rental tax for the last 10 years. After that, a qualified company can only get the number of vehicle that they owned before March 2006 even if the company now owns 200 rentals.
Example: company owned 5 rental before March 2006 and today they own 2000, they can only get 5 rentals provided they qualify all the other requirements.
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