Seattle Taxi Stands

The SDOT installs 10 new taxi stands and requests your location suggestions.

By 2015, SDOT will have installed 10 new taxi ranks and we are looking for information on where to go. Cab stands are special kerbs in which only cabs can sit. Cab stands are a foreseeable way for locals to know where to take a taxi in the inner cities and neighbourhoods of the town.

When you have an idea for new taxi rank sites, there are two ways you can deliver them. With this card you can suggest a new taxi rank. There are taxi ranks in blue on the card. Specify the name of the road, the closest crossroad and the side of the road you would suggest.

We ask for proposals by 20 April, and after that we can start to examine the viability of certain sites. We will continue with extra communications during the course of early this year and install the new taxi stands during the sommer. Thank you for taking the trouble to divide your thoughts!

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In this way, taxi riders in Seattle avoided having to pay higher charges for handling them.

In my opinion, taxi driver usually don't like it when passengers are paying by bank transfer and instead want to take money. My last two Seattle taxis were different. At the end of each trip, I had no money and said I could only make payments by car.

Amazingly, each rider removed a square hardware key for his iPhones. You stole my badge, I went to the computer and got a voucher sent to me by e-mail. My trip was payed for in seconds - much simpler than any major car payment I've ever made in a taxi. Then why did these riders use Square?

Annually, every times a traveller paid with a ticket, a driver has to make a handling charge to a taxi company - and it's probably more than the 2.75 per cent charge that Square calculates for each deal. Square funds are also paid into a cash deposit the next working weekday, so riders don't have to sit around waiting to see the results of their work.

Not the first taxi driver in the USA to use Square. Indeed, the corporation has been telling us that it has tens of millions of drivers across the nation using Square for payment processing. "Taxidrivers are among our most energetic and faithful users," said a Square spokesman. In San Francisco, some riders even save up to $35 a months using Square.

St. Louis, for example, first prohibited the use of Square in taxi cars before it was approved a few month later. Chicago chauffeurs were fine by taxi firms for using Square. Square in New York was testing a test project for the portable taxi rental before it was completed in 2012. Seattle City Council has informed us that it has no specific rules on how exactly riders can receive payments.

All taxis have to pay by card - the only current regulation introduced in 2005 is that all taxis have to pay by card - but how exactly they do that is not stated. There seems to be at least one taxi service in Seattle that has no problems with the fact that the driver uses the portable payments system. General Orange Cab General Manger Belyou Dagnew said that some of its operators use Square and added that Orange Cab is fine with the cabs' technologies as its operators are technologically independant contracted.

Those chauffeurs are paying businesses like Orange Cab to rent cars and then keep what they earn from the rates. However, if a passenger uses a debit rather than debit cards, the passenger must make payment of the handling charges. Last Saturday I drove in another Yellow Cab again and asked my rider about the use of Square after using it twice before.

Repeating what Dagnew said, he noticed that it didn't really make any difference whether Square was used or not because it was up to the riders to find out how to recover their pay. In fact, a fast track quest in the Square Market Square shows a crowd of riders from various Seattle based businesses who have profiled.

The use of advanced technologies in a taxi was at least interesting to see what was going on in Seattle right now. Taxis payments complains - especially the fact that chauffeurs don't accept major credits card - are one of the reasons why some choose the new carpooling options such as UberX, Lyft and Sidecar, which allow you to use your smart phone to make payments (applications such as Taxi Magic and Flywheel provide the same method of paying for taxis and car rentals, but are not required).

However, these businesses could soon be substantially eliminated from the market if the municipality progresses with a proposal to limit the number of UberX, Lyft and sidecar users to 300. A lot of people say that these start-ups, which allow you to make and buy a trip on your smart phone, are a more inventive and comfortable option to conventional taxis and think that the cities should not be regulating them.

Others, especially in the taxi and rental car industries, say that the new service should be regularised or restricted and that they should not receive free tickets just because they use new ways of canvassing. Seattle City Council's Committee on Taxi, Rental and Limousine Ordinances is scheduled to hold a Thursday 16:00 session to approve the ordinances. See all our carpooling reports here.