Taxi Zones and Phony Doctorates in The City of a Million Mysteries
In this confusing life, resistance to change can mean standing up for what's good and right or clinging to something sketchy just because it's familiar. Today, an example of each: Resisting change is heroic work when it's a fight like the District's decades-long battle against its congressional masters, who yearn to scrap the city's effective zone system of calculating taxi fares. The latest interloper, Michigan Sen. Carl Levin, while lamely protesting that "I'm an old home-rule guy," told The Washington Post that the District "can't continue to avoid making a decision." But of course the city has made that decision over and over again. It has just decided not to go Levin's way, and to the senator, that apparently means not making a decision. In 2002, the D.C. Taxicab Commission voted 4 to 2 against installing meters in cabs, largely because switching to meters would make longer trips more expensive washingtonpost.com Thu, 02 Aug 2007 08:11:04 EDTSource: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2007/08/02/BL2007080200524.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns
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