Fenty: No Deadline Extension for Meters

Mayor Adrian M. Fenty is announcing right now that his administration will not give D.C. cab drivers an extension for their May 1 deadline to place meters in their taxis. The matter is in the news lately, thanks to a lawsuit by the drivers that challenges the administration’s ability to ram through this regulation.

A D.C. Superior Court judge yesterday ruled against the cabbies, leaving them little more than a week to get their meters installed. The situation prompted some talk about pushing the deadline back, but Fenty this morning closed the door on such leniency.

—reporting by Mike DeBonis

UPDATE, 12 P.M.: Turns out that though Fenty says there’s no extension, there actually is an extension. Read more.