Results tagged “cabs”

Somerville hit the lottery. Cabs cost lots of cash to ride in. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook. more ›

• Cops and cabbies have something in common. Neither seem very concerned with the new city rule that bans cell-phone use by cabbies while driving. [Boston Herald]

• US District Court Judge William G. Young ruled Boston exceeded its authority by trying to force cabbies to convert to hybrid cars by 2015. [Boston Globe]

• If your business is struggling this month, just look out the window to get the reason for it. [Boston Globe]

Tylenol, the drug, will offer free cab rides in the City of Boston from November 17 to November 23, leaving from various convenient CVS locations. It's a promotion for Tylenol's new creepily named product, Warming Liquids. The catch? The rides are only available from noon to 8 p.m., an inconvenience that prompted the following exchange at Bostonist HQ: more ›

-- We can't find Whitey Bulger in Boston, but we have no problem spotting Whitey Squirrel. [Off on a Tangent.] more ›

--A cabbie got shot by an armed robber early yesterday morning in Roxbury. O'Ryan Johnson writes that the cabbie was changing a tire when the robber accosted him. After the cabbie handed everything over, the robber shot him and wounded him in the leg and buttocks. Elsewhere, early this morning, a man was shot several times in Roslindale and is now in the hospital. --More problems for cabbies: A BU student gave a cabbie a... more ›