Taxi cabs are looking greener.

Last month San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom signed legislation that will help to usher SF into a more environmentally friendly taxi cab city. The press release was released on 3/06/2008. We here at Green This Town are happy again to see another Bay Area City making positive moves.

After reading this my thoughts when to other large cities like New York and Chicago.

In New York, the Taxi and Limousine Commission will be requiring the fancier "black" fleet to lower its carbon emissions to levels only currently met by Hybrid technology. In the press release it describes the current 10,000 car moving from it's current 12-15 MPG state to a better 25mpg in 2009 and 30mpg in 2010. I hope that they are successful.

I spent a bit of time looking for other cities and their initiatives, but found nothing easily. We'll keep looking.


I felt like looking into this since spotting a SF Green Cab rolling down Market Street. They currently have a five car fleet and am sure they will catch on in the very progressive city of SF.