Rideshare Wars Continue

The ground transportation game is changing

"...in a rapidly expanding and ever-changing market. ATX Co-op Taxi and their fleet of bright-green cabs sprouted in the..."

Dec. 29, 2017 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Point Austin: Awake in the Hurricane

Enduring the last few days of the Lege's biennial cataclysm

"...And we should give thanks as well to the taxi-appers for their direct contributions to the local economy; having..."

May 26, 2017 News Column by Michael King

Lege for Sale?

Uber and Lyft splurge on lobby to deregulate themselves

"...rules against surge pricing during emergencies, and other commonplace taxi-service rules that the companies consider too onerous (although they..."

March 14, 2017 News Post by Michael King

Austin Transportation Guide

How to get around Austin, with or without your own wheels

"...Taxis..."

March 3, 2017 Chronolog Post by Katie Walsh

Gift Guide 2016: Coffeetable Books

Big books give heft to big success stories about women in business, Flatbed Press, UT’s collections, Pan Am, and the Spurs

"...New York cab as preparation for his role in Taxi Driver, and here is his taxi driver's license from..."

Dec. 16, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Council: Plenty of Work, and Campaigns

November elections are coming soon

"...network companies, and second reading consideration for the proposed taxi driver co-op franchise (ATX Coop Taxi)...."

June 3, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

Council: It's All on Camera

City Council gets ready to dive back into the breach

"...for first reading is the proposed grant of a taxi franchise to ATX Coop Taxi (Item 37), the newly..."

May 20, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

Council Preview: Water, TNCs, and Housing

Council wades back into taxi / TNC debate

"...middle-income home-buyers, revise electronic campaign finance forms, and equalize taxi and transportation network company regulations...."

April 8, 2016 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Don't Drink and Rideshare

Lyft passenger gets a wilder ride than he bargained for

"...Taxi companies in Austin fingerprint their drivers, and their background..."

March 25, 2016 News Feature by Mac McCann

Day Trips & Beyond: Six Baseballs for Cuba

Capt. Day Trips makes friends in Cuba by handing out new baseballs

"...us from the cruise hailed a late model Hyundai taxi. The driver pointed out landmarks in his heavily accented..."

March 16, 2016 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

News Roundup: Council Gets Dirty

Representatives engage in ... legal combaaaaaat!

"...press conference, the mayor said he has also told taxi-driver representatives and the taxi companies that he intends to..."

Feb. 8, 2016 News Post by the News Staff

Point Austin: Sign Right Here

TNC petition and Kitchen recall election recipes for pointless public expense, voter cynicism, and lousy government

"...an ordinance regarding transportation network companies – i.e., app-based taxi services trendily re-branded as "ridesharing" by their corporate bosses..."

Feb. 5, 2016 News Column by Michael King

News Roundup: Anti-Choice Work Is Never Done

Ken Paxton is an anti-abortnik

"...of Uber, Lyft, or any of the city's three taxi cab franchises. He told police that he offered riders..."

Oct. 12, 2015 News Post by the News Staff

Building Austin

As the city grows, is it being cavalier about the well-being of the laborers who are assembling Austin's new face?

"...factory putting tires on pallets and also as a taxi driver. Olalde's father worked at the same Goodyear factory..."

Aug. 28, 2015 News Feature by Amy Kamp

The Look of Silence

Getting personal with Indonesia's bloody past in follow-up to The Act of Killing

"...renditions” to fight a confused, bull-headed war on terror (Taxi to the Dark Side). Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look of..."

Aug. 14, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

"Drivers Are Pissed"

Possible lawsuit on the horizon as City Council quietly passes taxicab amendment

"...of the updated code – stipulates that all in-service taxi drivers (independent contractors by trade, not employees of the..."

July 24, 2015 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Council Extends Cab Contracts

Council approves cab franchise extension

"...will extend the current agreement with the pre-existing three taxicab franchises for another five years, as well as grant..."

June 12, 2015 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Getting Around Austin: SXSW Edition

Alternatives to driving during SXSW

"...Car2Go Taxis..."

March 4, 2015 SXSW Post by Casey Rochester

Logan Green Tabbed for SXSW

Lyft CEO becomes Interactive's fifth and final keynote speaker

"...company (along with industry rival Uber) has disrupted the taxi cab industry much in the same way that the..."

Jan. 27, 2015 SXSW Post by Chase Hoffberger

DVDanger: XX versus XY

Female-centric horrors Witching & Bitching, Life After Beth

"...2001's Dagon), he flees to France in a stolen taxi, and decides to stop in Zugarramurdi... presumably because Haddonfield,..."

Oct. 21, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin City Limits Taping: Spoon

Locals transition seamlessly for PBS staple’s 40th season

"...the band’s decision to fit “Inside Out” and “Rainy Taxi” between “Don’t Make Me a Target” and “I Turn..."

Oct. 10, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

'Slap Noir'

BigBoy Medlin's dark comic novel of West Texas: an excerpt

"...all over the back of a patrol car; the taxi cab sitting in Mrs. Morgan's front yard, where two..."

July 18, 2014 Arts Feature by James BigBoy Medlin

Navigating Rideshare's Course

City begins stakeholder meetings

"...program for Austin's future with Transportation Networking Companies (TNCs): taxi cabs, Carma cars, mustachioed Lyft-mobiles, and SuperShuttles...."

June 20, 2014 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

New York, New York

My first trip to the land of fire escapes

"...guitars from the cargo area and straight away a taxi whisks us over the Van Wyck Expressway. The cabbie..."

May 27, 2014 Music Post by William Harries Graham

SXSW Thursday Picks & Sleepers

S.H.I.T. – So Happy It's Thursday blurbs

"...Fiery Furnaces' Eleanor Friedberger last June. Abby Johnston Black Taxi..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature

The Armstrong Lie

What's a filmmaker to do with all the footage shot during Lance Armstrong's inspirational bicycling comeback in 2009 but reshape it into a documentary about a sports hero who couldn't stop lying?

"...best-known films (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Taxi to the Dark Side, We Steal Secrets: The Story..."

Nov. 8, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wadjda

In this first Saudi Arabian film ever directed by a woman, much is revealed about the reality of life for women there via its story of a 10-year-old girl who wants a bicycle.

"...to drive, she is dependent on male drivers to taxi her back and forth to work and to the..."

Oct. 18, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

SideCar to City: Have App, Will Travel ... to Court

Ridesharing tries to get past roadblocks

"...the driver for the ride. Is that car a taxi or not? The city of Austin says yes. SideCar,..."

March 15, 2013 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

City Council: 'All Free Men ... Have Equal Rights'

Gay rights, public school finance, cab franchises, endangered species, and more

"...restrictive "hire locally" standards for the 276 promised jobs. Taxi franchise permits (Item 72), low-speed electric vehicles (74), and..."

Sept. 28, 2012 News Feature by Michael King

Council: From Energy Management to Domain Rezoning

After this meeting, we'll all need a drink

"...• The delayed discussion of expanded taxi permits, punted from last week's meeting and still only..."

June 8, 2012 News Feature by Michael King

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