the averages cabby works six and a half hours a day . a cab ' s finest hours are 6 to 8 j . m . and even as the community has fallen further into recession , the number of cab rides each day in southern ny has stayed moderately constant . those are among the most compelling bits of information about the yellow cab industry to form from a trove of positive statistics collected by the taxi and saloon commissions from buses equipped with new computerized devices that record each trip and trip .
The busiest hour for a cab is 9 p.m.