Results tagged “taxis”

• Torontoist discovered a warning label affixed to some of the newspaper boxes of one of its daily papers.
• DCist was saddened by the tragic death of 22-year-old bicyclist Alice Swanson, who was killed when a garbage truck ran her over in a busy intersection. A "ghost bike" was erected in her honor just north of Dupont Circle.
• Shanghaiist was caught up all week with the gruesome murder of Canadian model Diana O'Brien.

Holy smokes! Giant fish on the MTA, Paris Hilton in jail, then out, then in again, Al Gore, goatses, blumpkins, Matt Damon, and baby art critics! It's been a busy week across the Ist-A-Verse, and here's a smattering of what's been going on.

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you.

Sitting in the back of a taxi today, right behind the always-"broken" credit card reader, we noticed that the PPA would probably benefit from having someone on staff who was capable of catching singular-plural disagreement and spelling errors. Or from typing into Microsoft Word and looking for red and green squiggly lines before uploading the text to the few thousand taxis in the city. Apologies for the photo quality; the pictures were taken with a camera phone in a moving taxi.

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets.

Dear Philadelphia:

Best of the week is compiled and edited by Seattlest's Dan Gonsiorowski.

Bostonist experiences schadenfreude because of a stupid criminal. We experience schadenfreude every time we listen to the soundtrack.

Dear Philadelphia Taxi Drivers:

Dear SEPTA Management:

Grape Street Pub in Manayunk is known for the eclectic mix of bands it brings in, and the eclectic crowd that goes along with it. But for we, the car-less of Philadelphia, it’s usually not worth making the trek. The music is usually still thumping long after the trains and busses stop running nearby, and we're too cheap for taxis. It would take a lot to make it worth it.