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Article: Hearing explores taxi fare increase ; Drivers cite fuel, toll costs in fight to raise rates
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 25, 2008
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Taxi driver Pierre Duchemin thought he would save money by
sharing an apartment with two fellow cabdrivers. But after paying
for gas, tolls, and other taxi fees, the cabdrivers could not make
enough for rent. They were evicted.
Duchemin, who now rents a room in Dorchester, was part of a
stream of taxi drivers who testified yesterday at a hearing that
they need an increase in fares to make up for the pinch they feel
from rising fuel and toll costs.
"Everything went up with us but the meter," Duchemin said before
he testified.
The hearing at Roxbury Community College drew about 200 people
and focused on a request by drivers to increase per-mile fares by 50
percent and hike the starting fare by ...
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