Neighborhood Watch: Adams Morgan Partiers Collateral Damage in Cab Driver Strike

The Issue: This weekend, anyone in Adams Morgan between 1 and 4 a.m., (read: drunk college students) will be walking home—DC cab drivers have decided to boycott the area north of U Street, south of Harvard Street, west of 16^th street, and east of Connecticut Avenue. Frat boys are the latest casualties in the ongoing cabbie-vs.-Ward 1 War, which had its latest battle in Freedom Plaza yesterday.

The headline-snatching councilmember, Jim Graham, angered cabbies by proposing to instate a district medallion system, which would charge taxis a monthly fee to operate, and also aim to cap the district’s 8,000 cab drivers. According to the Washington Post, Graham pulled the bill on Wednesday, a decision that reportedly has “nothing to do” with the arrest of his chief of staff. So why are the cabbies still honking? Read More "Neighborhood Watch: Adams Morgan Partiers Collateral Damage in Cab Driver Strike" »