The drive to improve taxi service outside Manhattan's central business district and for disabled New Yorkers has run into the ditch - as once-promising plans have been weakened or scuttled by the powerful yellow cab lobby.

It's time to call the tow truck and get them rolling again.

It was, to his credit, Mayor Bloomberg who forced the issue on both fronts. First, he launched an international competition to name a single design for the official yellow Taxi of Tomorrow. T... Read more »