D.C.'s move to install credit card readers in taxis is on hold as competing companies contest the contract for the devices. We update the overhaul of D.C.'s aging taxi fleet and ask how quickly riders will see the improvements.
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The whole taxi cab conversation that takes place in DC always seems to miss the majority population that makes under $70,000 a year in Washington.
When Fenty first put in the meters, for the first time, the taxis became affordable for riders. Recently Gray raised the rate, so now it's not affordable anymore.
Adding in all the bells and whistles (upscaling) will simply put affordability of taxis even further out of reach.
Years ago, when DC first started talking about installing meters in taxis, there was an uproar from taxi drivers who feared that a machine that could track where they went, how many fares they logged, and how much money they had (or should have) taken in, would make the local independent taxi companies susceptible to takeover by bigger taxi companies from outside. Whatever happened to that issue? Is this also an issue with the credit card readers?