#taxi — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #taxi, aggregated by home.social.
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Monday's Friday Reads | 24 August 2026
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://londonreconnections.com/mondays-friday-reads-24-august-2026/
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📰 Martin Scorsese opnieuw betrokken bij film Paul Schrader
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July 2014
Allston, Boston, Massachusetts
#iphonephotography #streetphotography #allston #boston #massachusetts #newengland #korean #taxi
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March 2026
Stuyvesant Town, Manhattan, NYC
#iphonephotography #streetphotography #manhattan #nyc #stuyvesanttown #taxi #graffiti
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Taxi Drivers Rarely Die Of Alzheimer’s – How Complex Mental Maps And Spatial Reasoning Protect Your Brain [why knowing your way around might help you stay sharp]
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https://theconversation.com/taxi-drivers-rarely-die-of-alzheimers-how-complex-mental-maps-and-spatial-reasoning-protect-your-brain-286650 <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2024-082194 <-- shared paper
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https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.070039597 <-- shared paper
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41582-018-0031-x <-- shared paper
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https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/taxis-and-private-hire/licensing/learn-the-knowledge-of-london <-- details of @Transport for London’s ‘The Knowledge’ details
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https://youtu.be/u7gp8KBP7ak?si=X1xXcysZF2LayFkx <-- shared video, ‘The People Who Have To Remember 25,000 Streets | The [London] Knowledge - The World's Toughest Taxi Test’
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H/T @ Jennifer Psillas, GISP | GIS Project Manager at City of Tucson Parks and Recreation
“Taxi and ambulance drivers are less likely than workers in almost any other job to die of Alzheimer’s disease. That was the surprising result of a 2024 study examining the death certificates of nearly 9 million people in the U.S…
Of the 9 million death certificates from January 2020 to December 2022 that researchers examined, taxi and ambulance drivers had the lowest risk of dying from Alzheimer’s disease out of 443 occupations. After adjusting for age, sex, race, ethnicity and education, roughly 1 in 100 taxi and ambulance drivers died of Alzheimer’s, compared with 1 in 60 people overall.
This pattern did not extend to other driving jobs. The researchers concluded that the key to reducing the risk of Alzheimer’s was not driving itself but continuous real-time navigation: the constant work of locating yourself in space, tracking a destination and updating a mental map as conditions change. Drivers whose jobs relied on fixed or predetermined routes, like bus drivers and aircraft pilots, didn’t seem to experience a similar advantage.
Researchers believe the association between navigation-heavy work and lower Alzheimer’s risk centers on the hippocampus, a part of the brain that governs memory and spatial navigation. It’s one of the first brain regions that Alzheimer’s damages: Problems with spatial navigation and orientation are among the earliest signs of the disease, sometimes surfacing before obvious memory loss.
In one landmark 2000 study [link above], neuroscientists compared the brains of licensed London taxi drivers with those of people who did not drive cabs. Their findings provided the first evidence via structural imaging that regions of the adult brain can measurably change under sustained navigational demand. To earn a license, London cabbies must memorize more than 25,000 streets within a 6-mile radius of Charing Cross, a challenge known as “The Knowledge” that takes three to four years…”
#spatialnavigation #orientation #mental #acuity #taxi #ambulance #paramedic #TheKnowledge #London #UK #Alzheimer #mapping #mentalmaps #spatialmapping #navigation #spatialreasoning #brain #hippocampus #brainhealth #death #mortality #disease #publichealth #scans #occupation #job -
[Artikel] 𝗡𝗶𝗲𝘂𝘄𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗻 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘁 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗲𝘁 𝗭𝘄𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗲𝗻 𝗱𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘃𝗮𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝘁 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘁
Voor het eerst sinds 1988 rijden er #Treinen tussen #Finland en #Zweden. Voorheen moesten reizigers per #Taxi of #Bus de grens oversteken. De nieuwe lijn herstelt de verbinding tussen Finland en de rest van het Europese #Spoornet.
https://www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/nieuwe-trein-verbindt-finland-met-zweden-en-de-rest-van-het-europese-spoornet~bb2bd451/ via @volkskrant
📷 CC BY-SA 3.0 DE by Falk2 via Wikimedia
#Trein #Train #Spooorwegen #Railways #Railroads #Finland #Sweden #Scandinavia #Travel
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lol. Sitter m bokföring av taxiresa medelst app (Fair)
Taxikvittot från appen: 329.35 kr (moms 18.64 kr)
Kortfakturan: 319.35 kr
plus en till dragning samma dag: 86.00 krEhm ... jaha? Kortet är ju kopplat i appen o betalning sker automagiskt. Hur kan det va olika belopp??
Jag får bokföra enligt kortfakturan. O moms enligt verifikationen antar jag?
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TAXI!!! La Guardia Terminal B pickup circa 2015
#taxi #travel #airports #airtravel #rideshare #aeroport #flughafen
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26 July 2026
Long Island City, Queens, NYC
#iphonephotography #streetphotography #longislandcity #nyc #taxi #mural #art #queens
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Been at the Holly Bush Bar too long? Need a ride back to the Metropolis? The bird taxi service is just a toot away!
#screenshotfriday #indiegame #indiegamedev #cat #pixelart #puzzlegame #taxi #horn #adventuregame #bar #indiedev #bird
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Ein Taxifahrer belästigt eine Gelsenkirchenerin. Ihren Polizeinotruf tarnt sie als Pizzabestellung - die erkennt ihre Notlage.#WDR #Gelsenkirchen #Polizei #Notruf #sexuelleBelästigung #Pizza #Pizzabestellung #Taxi #Streifenwagen #NRW
Im Taxi sexuell belästigt: Gelsenkirchenerin tarnt Notruf als Pizzabestellung -
„#FAHRDIENSTE :
Taxis in Deutschland haben ein Problem – und zwar ein existenzbedrohendes
Immer weniger Deutsche fahren #Taxi. Viele Zentralen stehen am Rande der Existenz. Das liegt nicht in erster Linie an der Konkurrenz durch Uber. Sondern an den Kunden.“
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I love it:
> The Rebel County has a new taxi app.
> Owned by the drivers.
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> Tap a Taxi is a driver-owned co-operative. No surge pricing, no hidden fees, just the meter price. Your fare stays with the driver. -
#Transport for #London (TfL) is consulting on proposals to stop licensing any #taxi or private hire vehicle that has ever been recorded as salvage, with changes expected from autumn 2026 if approved. The aim is to improve safety by ensuring only structurally sound vehicles operate in the licensed fleet. #TfL also proposes requiring a full V5C logbook as proof of ownership for all vehicle licence applications, ending acceptance of documents such as V62 forms, online transfer confirmations and V5C/2 slips, while retaining existing arrangements for new vehicles and some fleet operators. Where concerns remain over a vehicle’s condition or history, TfL would continue to request a vehicle history check. Around 3% of London’s licensed taxi and private hire fleet is currently identified as salvage. The consultation closes on 13 September 2026.
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Der Stadtrat tagte: Die #Taxipreise in Leipzig steigen um 7,5 Prozent
https://www.l-iz.de/wirtschaft/mobilitaet/2026/07/stadtrat-tagte-die-taxipreise-in-leipzig-steigen-um-75-prozent-664023
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𝗧𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗻 𝗯𝗼𝘁𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗽 𝘁𝗮𝘅𝗶, 𝗶𝗻𝘇𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗸𝗲 (16) 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘁 𝗲𝗿 𝗴𝗲𝗯𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗲
Deze week kwam een taxi met daarin een chauffeur en twee leerlingen in botsing met een trein. Dat gebeurde bij een onbewaakte spoorwegovergang. Wonder boven wonder overleefden de inzittenden het ongeluk, waar Renske (16) er een van is.
