A 6-7 month old baby girl, strapped in a car seat, was left in the backseat of a livery cab this morning. Tel-A-Car driver Klever Sailema picked up a man and the baby around 9:45AM this morning at 106th Street and Northern Boulevard in Queens. When the cab got to 83rd and Northern, the man said he needed to make a call and left the car. Only he crossed "the street to a pay phone......

The police are still looking for the driver who drove a Nissan Altima into 44-year-old taxi driver Mohamed Elwaleed yesterday. Elwaleed was pinned under the car and died, and the driver and his female passenger fled the intersection at Madison Avenue and East 65th Street on the Upper East Side. A witness who was walking his dog at the time told the Post that the cab and Nissan got into an accident near Central Park,......

Mayor Bloomberg announced that the city was prepared for the possible two-day taxi strike that some taxi driver groups have threatened for tomorrow morning, starting at 5AM. About 7,000 of the city's 44,000 taxi drivers (there are about 13,000 cabs in total) have reportedly promised to strike over new technology that the Taxi and Limousine Commission wants to install in all cabs. Some drivers' issues with the technology, which includes GPS tracking systems and......

The New York Taxi Workers Alliance said that it definitely will strike on Wednesday and Thursday to protest the city's plans to put new technology, including GPS systems, in all taxi cabs. NYTWA spokeswoman Bhairavi Desai said, "Leave the car parked at home or at the garage. No yellow cabs for hire." The city has said that the new technology, which also includes the option to pay by credit, is useful; for instance, the......

If you rely on taxis, you may want to adjust your transportation plans: The Taxi Workers Alliance says that drivers it represents will strike on September 5 and 6 to protest the Taxi and Limousine Commission's decision to add GPS systems to all yellow cabs. But then the New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers, another advocacy group, said that there would be no strike (with spokesman Fernando Mateo saying, "Read my lips: There......

Most anyone has wished their cab drivers to go a little faster, but how many actually tell the drivers they are undercover police officers just so they go speed through red lights? Rapper The Game (real name: Jayceon Taylor) was arrested for impersonating a police officer on Thursday night after trying to pull such a stunt. A livery cab driver says The Game and some friends flagged him around 11:30PM at 56th Street and 7th......

The City Council has proposed a bill that would direct half the new taxi medallions for this year (about 300) to go towards wheelchair accessible cabs and the other half to hybrid vehicles. However, the Taxi and Limousine Commission chairman is against the plan. And he may have reason to be: The wheelchair accessible cabs already being used have "a series of component failures" and the hybrid vehicles don't tend to have those partitions. Now,......

During broad daylight, a gunman shot at a livery cab in Harlem at least 10 times, killing its passenger. Bullets hit the passenger side window and door as the car was on East 129th Street between Park and Lexington Avenues. The NY Times reports that a witness tried to follow the shooter's car, a beige, gray or gold Honda Accord, but "lost track of it on the Grand Central Parkway in Queens." The vicitim, Reginald......

The Daily News reports that there's a new scholarship program to help women become taxi drivers. The Metropolitan Taxicab Board of Trade, New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers, has 500 scholarships to offer, but only 8 women have signed up, something the federation's president chalks up to lack of awareness for the program and as well as old perceptions that being a cab driver is dangerous. Really, who knew? The Daily News says that......

The NY State Federation of Taxi Drivers announced that livery cab drivers will be increasing their minimum base fares from $5 to $6. This move comes after the yellow cab fares increased at the beginning of May. Gothamist says "whatever," because we've made it a point not to take livery cabs from the street, as livery cab drivers tend to be even more renegade and crazy than yellow cab drivers, insisting that you pick up......