Green Cab

While coming home from “a night on the town,” I finally had the pleasure of riding home in a Green Cab – San Francisco. It was an enjoyable ride. So, I video interviewed one of the founders of Green Cab, “Mort.”

Let’s see if we can support their grand efforts and increase the fleet.

Green Cab is 24/7 radio dispatched by City Wide Dispatch

When you call 626-4733, please
ask for a CLEAN CAB
the dispatcher will first try
to get a Hybrid or CNG Cab for you.
If all Green Cabs are busy, the nearest regular cab will be dispatched to you.

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“Mark Gruberg, a taxi driver of 20 years, was tired of getting a whopping 12 miles to the gallon in his company-issued Crown Victoria. So he co-founded a taxi cooperative with Mort (and a few others) that made the iconoclastic transition from yellow to green, literally, and put gas guzzlers to shame.

SF Green Cab hit the streets on April 25, flaunting its ideology on two brightly painted Priuses averaging 40 miles per gallon (city). The company’s eight green cabbies can pride themselves on a great deal, both environmentally (the Priuses emit 75 percent less carbon dioxide than the Crown Victorias) and economically (Green Cab maintains the same rates as other city taxis). The now-four-cab fleet promises to be the post-last call mode of greenerati transportation, and it brings the city one step closer to keeping Mayor Gavin Newsom’s boisterous promise of having only clean-and-green taxis on the streets by 2011 (though we hope Green Cab doesn’t have to do the rest all on its own).” –

(415) 626-GREEN, www.sfgreencab.com