Taxi cabs

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===Pittsburgh mayor tells cabbies they're the city's ambassadors===
AP, PITTSBURGH, June 2006 - Taxi drivers are the city's ambassadors, the mayor told cabbies in urging them to bring their A-game to Major League Baseball All-Star Game festivities.
"If your cabs are not clean, if there's not gas in it, and the mechanics don't have it tuned up ... you won't be successful," Mayor Bob O'Connor told cabbies Wednesday in advance of the July 7-11 festivities. "You are the ambassadors."
While most cabbies keep a clean car, cabbie Jim Jacobs said those who use their cars as a second home could best use O'Connor's advice.
One concern is the reputation that Pittsburgh taxis are difficult to come by.
Dick Rauner, of Tulsa, Okla., was in Pittsburgh for a convention and said other conventioneers talked about the difficulty in getting a cab. A hotel manager told him he would have better luck catching an airport shuttle than a taxi, he said.
Cyndi Page, spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, said the commission has received 25 complaints this year about cab service in Pittsburgh, most for cabs that don't arrive.
"We have to be ambassadors to the city," said cabbie Tom Blancato. "Transportation is the tissue that holds this city together."
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