Building A Better Taxi Stand

A post on Streetsblog suggests that the city's Taxi & Limousine Commission should take a look at the Design Trust's recently released "Designing the Taxi," which offers some good ideas for reworking the system.

Specially, the report outlines a model for taxi stands that featured illuminated signs to flag down drivers -- which might help stop drivers from cruising the streets and stopping in lanes of traffic or bike lanes.

"All it would take to have a safer, more convenient, high class taxi pick-up and drop-off system is giving up a few dozen free or metered parking spaces per neighborhood, which may be a nice side benefit in that it would reduce the incentive to drive to that area and take mass transit or walk instead."