What role did large taxicab companies and big corporation in and out of the city play while C. Toney was chair of the DC Taxicab Commission and wrote hack laws that created the 40 to 50 percent loss of income from independent/owner/drivers to starve them out of the business?

This issue fail on deaf ears when we told you that big corporation and large taxicab companies was going take total control of this historical independent/hack/operator business and ownership, in other words, the For Hire License as suggested by the DC hotel and restaurant association in 1997 at a meeting held at Embassy Suites Hotel, Wisc ave, Military Rd NW.

The issue then in the Taxicab Industry was about Transparency with the fare, this could have been easily solved with the Zone Calculator that permitted Shared Riding with no loss of income to driver/owners or service to the riding public.

This could have made the DC Taxicab System the best transportation system in Washington DC and America, in the case of an Emergency.

The big loss from putting meters in DC Taxicabs is to senior citizens and folks that are on fixed or have low incomes.

It’s a shame that DC taxicab/owner/drivers that are US Armed Force Veterans were not allowed to apply for US Government Grants to put wheel chair accessible taxicabs on the streets of DC.

When 80% percent of all DC Taxicabs are owned by independents and all the US Grant Money was given to two large taxicab companies and US Armed Force Veterans, like myself was left out in the cold and can only lease from the companies that got those 20 wheel chair taxicabs for free.

Something is wrong with this and so very unfair, don’t you think so?

Folk’s forget this is a historical free enterprise/ independent system that gave the Black Man Economic Freedom in Washington DC from 1837 to Stand Up and be a Free Man when he could own no other business in America.

Today,
I feel, I was made a Slave by Mayor Fenty, the DC City Council and the leader in the closing of DC General Hospital for the gentrification of DC, C. Toney the former chair of the the DC Taxicab Commission.

I don’t think he is going to jail for bidding the will of the power that be in DC by removing people of color from the city unless the heat is turned up and I would have loved to have some air time to address this issue in a way only I can do in my old format but I’M persona non grata to Wpfw Air the last 20 years even with Grigsby Hubbard as IGM of Wpfw.

A 45 year public service provider as a DC, hacker/taxicab/owner and driver and a 32 year former Wpfw producer/programmer/ Lsb and Pacifica National Director that the DC Taxicab Industry allowed me to be Committed and Free to give all that I can to My Community and the Pacifica Mission as a Real Free Black Man in America and if anyone who knows me will tell you, I will be dead before I will ever be a Slave.

In the last two years Wpfw/Pacifica as an opinion makers seem to be trying to bum rush other independent/owner/drivers to an early grave, one that come to mind is Ted King, that I know laid down his life for 8000 DC Taxicab Drivers and there Families. />>Billy Ray