Taxi Customers Asked to Fill Out Online Survey
If you ride around Arlington in taxi cabs, the county wants to hear from you. An online taxi survey has been set up to gather information about experiences with the cabs throughout Arlington....
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Hospital Employee Arrested After Robbery Attempt, Foot Chase
A Virginia Hospital Center worker has been arrested and charged in a bizarre attempted robbery at the hopsital. Police say 48-year-old Alexandria resident Albert Murray, an employee at the...
SoberRide Program Provides Free Rides Home
A lot of people celebrate the holiday season with alcohol, which can make the roads dangerous. To keep the streets a little safer from potentially impaired drivers, SoberRide is offering free taxi...
County Board Approves Increase in Taxicab Fares
Arlington will soon have the highest per-mile regulated taxicab fare of any major D.C. area jurisdiction. After about 2 hours of discussion, the Arlington County Board decided to eschew a...
County Board to Consider Taxi Fare Hike
(Updated at 3:10 p.m.) The Arlington County Board is scheduled to consider a fare hike for Arlington taxi operators this weekend. The proposal would raise the initial drop charge from $2.75 to...
Taxi Cab Flips Over on GW Parkway
Police and firefighters are on the scene of a taxi cab that somehow flipped on its side on the GW Parkway. The accident reportedly occurred just after the ramp from eastbound Route 50 to the...
Crime Report: Dirty Cab Drivers Edition
In this week's Arlington County crime report, there were two incidents of male cab drivers trying to get fresh with their female passengers. ASSAULT AND BATTERY, 10/07/11, 800 block of N. Randolph...
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Construction to Begin on Rosslyn Office Project -- The long-stalled Central Place office project may finally be moving forward. Developer JBG says construction on a new 390-foot office tower,...
Crime Report: Overexposure Edition
Men in various states of nudity caused quite a bit of trouble over the past week. This week's Arlington County crime report lists five separate indecent exposure cases, including two...
WaPo Covers Arlington’s ‘Karaoke Cab’
Have you ever hopped in a Red Top Cab at night and realized that it wasn't just a taxi, it was a karaoke parlor on wheels? If so, you've probably met Joel Orbina Laguidao, the subject of an...
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Pentagon Suspect Suspected in Shootings -- The man whose arrest prompted authorities to shut down Washington Boulevard during the Friday morning rush hour is now being investigated for a possible...
D.C. Cabbies Refusing Va. Fares
Update at 11:35 a.m. -- As this story was being written, NBC4's Tom Sherwood reported on Twitter that the D.C. fuel surcharge will now apply to both in-city and out-of-town trips. New fuel...
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More Names Mentioned for Senate Seat -- Is there a Democrat in Arlington County who's active in local politics and who's not thinking about running for the state Senate seat being vacated by the...
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Pentagon Metro Station Closed -- The Pentagon Metro Station has been closed due to a suspicious package, reports Dr. Gridlock. Trains are still passing through the station. Boy Scouts Enter...
Board Approves Ballston BID, Says No to More Taxis
Ballston will be getting a business improvement district, but Arlington will not be getting additional taxis. Those two decisions were reached unanimously by the county board at its Saturday...
