It got me to thinking about the fare increase of this summer. Back in August, in the throes of the gas crisis, the city of Boston raised rates after a series of complaints by cab drivers and their representatives. I advocated back then for a break in the artificial monopoly that supresses the number of cabs in the city (read the comments too).
As gas prices have dropped from $4+ in August to less then half that (at least where I live), the new, higher rates remain in place. Can we expect Mayor Tom Menino and Police Commissioner Ed Davis to lower them soon? Probably not.
