Greenpoint's Growing Taxi Graveyard
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That's just evil. Rushing out to fill public parking spots. I feel sorry for any retail business in the area who's customers are now blocked out by this yellow tide filling the street. Nobody likes parking meters, but this is why they were invented.
If only there were some technology by which he could travel a greater distance quickly - perhaps something with wheels, or a conveyance of some kind that could meet him at a more remote lot, and carry him back to the dispatcher's office.
Sarcasm aside, here is a business dependent upon the common good of free curb-side parking, and saying, in effect, that they do not use the transportation method they provide to others to meet their own needs.