Dmitry Samarov (Samarov)

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  Where Did All the Yellow Cabs Go?

  They're never coming back...
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  Jitney

                                                 The first time I heard the word jitney was in Boston in 1993. I was twenty-three years old at the …
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  Chicago taxicab king no more: Empire of mogul linked to Daley son, ex-Trump fixer has crumbled

  I rented cabs from this crook for a couple years. One car had a hole nearly a foot wide …
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  Uber, Lyft Charges More For Riders Going To Chicago’s Non-White Neighborhoods, Study Shows

  Why is this not surprising? https://blockclubchicago.org/2020/06/26/uber-lyft-charges-more-for-riders-going-to-chicagos-non-white-neighborhoods-study-shows/
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  Lyft opens "Driver Center"

  In the olden days, they called it a cab garage... If it quacks like a duck, it's time we …
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  The Epic Rise and Hard Fall of New York’s Taxi King

  Good riddance.
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  Lyft Driver Groped Passenger, But The Company Did Too Little Too Late To Respond, Victim Says

  "I wanted this creep off the streets. According to Lyft, he is. But who knows if ... he could be …
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  Uber Throws Party For Drivers — And It Was A Huge ‘Unorganized Catastrophe,’

  Looks like a great time!
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  Slain cabbie's family sues Uber after driver flees to China, is charged with murder

  This is the kind of thing that happens when tech-bros run a business with no regulations...https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-met-uber-sued-taxi-driver-kicked-in-head-20190604-story.html
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  How Reckless Loans Devastated a Generation of Taxi Drivers

  How long till a story like this about UberLyft? http://bit.ly/TaxiCon
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  "The choice is between underpaying drivers and replacing them with robots."

  Couldn't have said it better myself....Strike All You Want. Uber Won’t Pay a Living Wage.
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  ‘Is this going to be my last ride?’

  https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-met-uber-lyft-rideshare-safety-20190405-story.html
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  He Has Driven for Uber Since 2012. He Makes About $40,000 a Year.

  UGH.Uber driver's favorite passenger review:  “Dude drove like a cabdriver.”
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  So Uber rents cars to drivers now? If it quacks like a duck...

  Over the weekend, a friend told me he was in my old line of work now—he's been moonlighting as an …
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  Median Taxi Medallion Price in Chicago Down to $26,500

  The Auction Flop (via Chicago Dispatcher)Think this is a real death-rattle for the cab industry...
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  Thief Pretends To Lose Phone Under Taxi Seat, Then Rips Off Drivers When They Stop To Help, Police Say

  The same man has pulled the lost phone ruse three times in the past month, police said. (via Block Club …
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  ‘Suicide Surcharge’ or Crucial Fee to Fix the Subway? Taxi Drivers Brace for Battle Over $2.50 Charge

  Another death-rattle for the cab industry. (via New York Times)
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  They Bonded as Cabbies in the 1980s. Now One Is Helping his Ailing Friend

  Via the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/21/nyregion/they-bonded-as-cabbies-in-the-1980s-now-one-is-helping-his-ailing-friend.html?action=click&module=Editors%20Picks&pgtype=Homepage
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  Too many Uber drivers? Chicago cabbies and ride-share workers join forces, urge cap on Uber and Lyft cars

  From the Chicago Tribune—https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-chicago-taxi-ride-share-drivers-limit-20181030-story.html From the Chicago Sun-Times—https://chicago.suntimes.com/business/taxi-rideshare-drivers-unite-city-hall-protest-regulation-uber-lyft/
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  "Suicides Get Taxi Drivers Talking: ‘I’m Going to Be One of Them’"

  Six NYC cabbies have killed themselves recently: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/nyregion/suicides-taxi-drivers-nyc.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

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   6 years ago in  Lyft is paying passengers $550 to give up their cars for a month.

  Very happily. Throwing it away was like waking from a nightmare.

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   6 years ago in  Lyft is paying passengers $550 to give up their cars for a month.

  What do I get for not owning a car for over three years? I'm invisible to Lyft though because I have a dumbphone...

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   6 years ago in  Where Hack began

  Get the books and you be the judge! https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=dmitry+samarov

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   6 years ago in  Ogden Avenue

  Tell Uber!

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   6 years ago in  Chicago Hack

  Thank you.

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   6 years ago in  Chicago Hack

  Click on the link and you'll hear it!

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   6 years ago in  Chicago Hack

  Thank you. I'm glad I did that job but also glad I no longer have to do it.

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   6 years ago in  Website That Shames Drivers For Stopping In Bike Lanes Gets City Ticket Agency’s Attention

  Bike Lane abuse is totally out of control here in Chicago. Not just ridesharites, but they do seem to be the biggest culprits.

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   6 years ago in  A Hack's Art

  Thank you.

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   6 years ago in  A Hack's Art

  I like working directly from life. I do illustrations, etc from photos but it's not nearly as exciting as looking with my own eyes.

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   6 years ago in  A Hack's Art

  Thanks!

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   6 years ago in  A Hack's Art

  Kept mostly to myself. But I wrote two books about it. There are definitely some stories about other drivers in there!

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   6 years ago in  A Hack's Art

  Up to three hours at times. When I was working on this series I'd sometimes intentionally go during slow times so I could paint a little longer, but it was always a crapshoot. Once the line started moving, all my whole scene would disappear. I threw away a ton of paintings which didn't work out.

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   6 years ago in  A Hack's Art

  Thanks! Of course I sell them. I have a few of this series left. You can email me through my site if you're interested. There are also prints of a few of them, as well as other work, here: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/samarov/.

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   6 years ago in  In the Battle of Rideshare Versus Taxi the Driver Always Loses

  Once they're the only game in town they will be. All government and private entities connected to the public transportation business will get there taste and demand a say in how they run their companies. It's inevitable. That, or it goes underground, back to the old jitney model.

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   6 years ago in  In the Battle of Rideshare Versus Taxi the Driver Always Loses

  Of course. There was bribery too. Some calls never went out over the air, especially in the old two-way radio days. It's all just human nature.

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   6 years ago in  In the Battle of Rideshare Versus Taxi the Driver Always Loses

  Yep. A very inefficient system and rife with corruption from both the drivers' and dispatchers' sides.

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   6 years ago in  My Post-Driving Life [Dmitry Samarov]

  Yep, that's me. Thanks for reading!

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   6 years ago in  I Quit Just in Time

  Luckily no.

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   6 years ago in  Ridesharing Stories podcast

  Keep listening and you'll hear that my mind goes blank at such questions. I don't believe cabbies have any secrets which are worth sharing. The ones we do have are probably kept to ourselves :)

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