OCEAN CITY – An effort to reduce certain fees associated with Ocean City’s taxi cab medallion system will move forward to the full Mayor and Council with a favorable recommendation from a resort committee.
On Monday, the Ocean City Police Commission voted unanimously to forward a favorable recommendation to the Mayor and Council to lower medallion fees to $50 and reduce medallion transfer fees to $100.
“I think we’d do better to just reduce the fees and keep the system,” Mayor Rick Meehan told committee members this week.
In 2010, Ocean City implemented a tax cab medallion system in an effort to regulate the local taxi industry. Not only did it limit the number of cabs that could operate in town, but added measures such as cab inspections to ensure public safety.
“Back in the day, if you recall, the taxi industry was a wild, wild west and we started to regulate taxi cabs for the public purpose of trying to control the number of taxis in town because that was the transportation system above and beyond the buses,” City Manager Doug Miller said this week, “and then also to ensure public safety in that the vehicles they were getting into were safe.”
Federal Money is coming in large sums to Ocean City.
This Federal money delegated to Ocean City is a result of the New BLM halfway house they are building on Baltimore and Talbott streets.
V.P. Harris stated Ocean City has too many white people going there, and she has directed Ocean City town council to build this much needed halfway house.
That’s an industry going the way of the newspaper and blockbuster…can’t compete with Uber and Lyft.
Prior to Boober and lift me up before i go go….i recall medallion fees over $1000. Now $50. I guess parking fees down the inlet will now double. Bwahahahahah
You cant make this stuff up.
Does anyone know that there’s been a movie made based upon Ocean City buses? Really!
Check out: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5134254/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
The OC Bus fleet Kills the cabs !!!!