New tactic in the war on u-turns

@jrenaut 67866 wrote:

Yesterday I came across a cab driver parked in the bike lane right by the White House. I took some pictures, cuz that’s what you do, and then I filed a complaint with the DC Taxicab Commission using their handy-dandy online form.

This morning, I got a lovely form email.

I’m thinking that if taxi drivers (who make a large portion of the U-turns on PA Ave) keep having to sit down and have meetings with unhappy cyclists they’ve almost killed, we might actually see some changes.

The way I read that, you only get that far if they decide that a taxicab regulation was violated. Is there a taxicab regulation against u turns?

@jrenaut 67866 wrote:

I’m thinking that if taxi drivers (who make a large portion of the U-turns on PA Ave) keep having to sit down and have meetings with unhappy cyclists they’ve almost killed, we might actually see some changes.

If taxicab regulations were violated the Commission will place your complaint in line for a meeting with the driver and appropriate violations and penalties will be imposed.

It seems like the meeting would be between the driver and the Commission because during said meeting I imagine they would impose the “appropriate violations and penalties.”

Hmmm, I wonder what would happen if they allowed cyclists to impose these penalties? Bicycle court, go!

@dasgeh 67876 wrote:

It sounds like the driver will have a meeting with the Complaint. That will be interesting…

And be represented by the Teamsters?

@americancyclo 67890 wrote:

really says nothing about what happens if laws are violated but regulations are not.

I think it does…

Are you familiar with the NYC case of the taxi driver who severed a bystander’s leg while trying to run down a cyclist? Taxicab commission decided there was nothing prohibiting cabbies from doing that.