WPCNR MR. & MRS. & MS. WHITE PLAINS POLL. July 24, 2008 : Today is the day White Plains cabbies who are not affiliated with the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades may enroll in the union with a waiver of the initiation fee at the union's headquarters at 14 Saw Mill River Road between 4 and 7 PM.  To date, city hall has not revealed how many gypsy cabs were nabbed, impounded and fined within the last year. Perhaps none, or one, otherwise, why wouldn't they have that statistic?

However, the questions raised at the union news conference last Saturday about fares, gypsy cabs, taxi stands and the heretofore unreported deliberations of the city's Taxi Committee raise a lot of issues that anyone who has ever experienced the ambience and aggravation of the White Plains taxi system may want to weigh in with their opinions.

In our never-ending quest to involve Mr. and Mrs. and Ms. White Plains in the issues of their city, since no one else does, we present the following Taxi Poll that seeks to get what the public would like in a taxi system. The system should not be to the advantage of the cab companies, the drivers, or the city's convenience, it should be for the convenience of the public which is a concept most public agencies do not get, based on WPCNR's observations.

To that end we present the following revolutionary options at the right -- take your pick, Mr. and Mrs. and Ms. White Plains and let the bureaucrats know what you want -- not that they will listen.