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A subset of Taxi-Library focused on San Francisco


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A model poses as a horse cab driver in this postcard from the Femmes Cocher collection gathered by Norman Beattie. The series celebrates the role of women in the Paris taxi trade during the early 1900s.

Model posing as a woman horse coach driver

Best collection of taxi-related documents

Taxi-Library is a non-commercial educational website serving the taxicab industry worldwide. It provides an extensive collection of documents and links relating to the taxi business, which is a private segment of municipal and rural transportation systems throughout the world.

Founded as Taxi-L in 1999 by former Winnipeg regulator Terry Smythe, Taxi-Library represents the contributions of many people including drivers, company managers, regulators, journalists, academics and family members.

To join an ongoing discussion of taxi news and issues, please visit the homepage of Taxi-List, an email group of about 800 participants moderated by Karl Weiszhaar of Denver. See The Taxi News for a roundup of recent news items.

Charles Rathbone Your host on the Taxi-Library website, Charles Rathbone. Click this mail link to send him an email.

Contact

Taxi-Library is maintained by Charles Rathbone, a taxicab driver in San Francisco since 1975. He has worked as a labor and community organizer, and as the assistant manager of a cab company. He has driven at large and small fleets, worked as a single-shift independent owner-driver, and as an employer operating his own one-cab microfleet.

He is especially interested in driver safety, and played a lead role in a campaign that led to passage of the 1994 taxi safety law in San Francisco. During breaks from his taxi work, Charles earned a BA degree in Geography from the University of California at Berkeley, and satisfied a wanderlust that took him to 40 states and 33 countries.

He is currently a member of the local medallion holders' group. See MHA Today which focuses on the cab business in that city.

Feedback and suggestions for improving Taxi-Library are welcome, especially documents of interest to people in the taxi industry. To email Charles, click on this mail link.

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If your computer does not recognize the format of a file on Taxi-Library, one of these freely available programs may provide a solution.

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