Thursday, October 1, 2009

What constitutes an illegal taxicab?

Posted by Justin Kendall on Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 7:00 AM

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You won't be able to catch an Atlas Cab between 5 a.m. October 20 and midnight October 29. Regulated Industries suspended Atlas' permits for 10 days. So Atlas' cabs won't be running for 10 days.

The city's press release said that the suspension was due to "violations of multiple City ordinances, including operation of illegal taxicab vehicles in Kansas City, Mo."

Illegal taxicabs?

Jim Ready, assistant manager of the Regulated Industries Division, explains that an illegal cab is one that isn't properly permitted in KC. Maybe it's missing a required sticker in the window or the lettering on the side of the cab isn't the right size. Or maybe the cab is permitted for KCK, not KCMO.

Whatever the case, Regulated Industries' investigators busted Atlas for running the illegal cabs.


Lucky for Atlas that its cabs will be back on the streets in time for Halloween.

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