Making News

A Tampa taxi odyssey: Are our cabs really not up to snuff?
August 1, 2014

TAMPA — The taxi cabs here might not be the newest, swankiest ones on Earth. But are they really the “deplorable, embarrassing” pigsties that one critic alleges?

Hotel developer Lou Plasencia blasted the city’s taxi industry during a recent meeting of the Hillsborough County Hotel Motel Association. Tampa cabs, which also go to St. Petersburg and Clearwater, give visitors a bad impression of the area, he complained.