Fare trade: 1
23rd May 1996, Page 39
23rd May 1996
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lain-spoken New York cabbies are to break the habit of a lifetime by being polite to customers.
The revolution will be achieved by city-backed training teaching drivers 50 courteous phrases. The Taxi and Limousine Commission's initiative will thrust words such as, "Thank you for hailing me, sir/machun," and "I'm sorry if you think I'm driving too fast, sir/madam: I will slow down immediately," into the mouths of the world's rudest taxi drivers. Whether they will spit them out through gritted teeth, I do not know, but I would thank them not to call me "sirimadam".