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Taxi Share Day 1 Results: Six Shared Rides
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Jen Chung
Published Mar 4, 2010
Modified Mar 4, 2010
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Yesterday, the Taxi & Limousine Commission's cab sharing program was launched at three Manhattan locations. And the day one results: Six shared rides. A NY Times reporter offered to share a taxi with one woman waiting on the Upper East Side; the woman reasoned, "People are hesitant, and don’t want to share."
A cabbie was pessimistic about the program when speaking to the Daily News from the West 57th Street and Eighth Avenue stand: "I don't think it's going to work. It's supposed to be very busy over here, but all the cabs are empty. It's hard to find one passenger, let alone four."
And the Post accounted for one of the other five rides: Post reporter Amber Sutherland posed an extremely annoying passenger who turned on the taxi TV, put her head on a passenger's shoulder (she was "tired!") and "'borrowed' a tissue, blew her nose, and then tried to hand it back."
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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