{"id":2870,"date":"2010-06-14T11:00:37","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T18:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=2870"},"modified":"2010-06-13T21:14:34","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T04:14:34","slug":"taxi-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2010\/06\/14\/taxi-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxi status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An observation, yesterday: Every single taxi at the downtown Victoria BC ferry terminal to Seattle was a Prius. Practically new.<\/p>\n<p>But when you get to the US &#8211; say, Seattle &#8211; the state of your cab is a crap-shoot. It may be a beat-up old car, it may be newer, it may be (as mine was yesterday) a converted mini-van that has seen better, much better, days.<\/p>\n<p>Not sure whether the comparison means anything, but it must have something to do with regulatory practices.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe a key difference is that in one place you can actually hail a beat-up old cab any time of day or night, while in the other you better plan well in advance when you want that beautiful new Prius to arrive.<\/p>\n<p>What works better? It&#8217;s an interesting question.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/autopia\/2008\/02\/the-big-apple\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 4px solid white\" title=\"taxi\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/images_blogs\/autopia\/images\/2008\/02\/20\/nyc_taxi_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"186\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An observation, yesterday: Every single taxi at the downtown Victoria BC ferry terminal to Seattle was a Prius. Practically new. But when you get to the US &#8211; say, Seattle &#8211; the state of your cab is a crap-shoot. It may be a beat-up old car, it may be newer, it may be (as mine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1242],"tags":[16109],"class_list":["post-2870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just_so","tag-taxis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2870"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2872,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870\/revisions\/2872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}