Cabbies Face Rule Changes
Oak Park's village board takes aim at cab cleanliness, cell phone use and floats the idea of a cabbie dress code.
Cabbies in Oak Park could soon expect to hang up their cell phones, put out their cigarettes and clean up their acts altogether. Legislation considered at Tuesday's village board meeting centered on beefing up the rules governing local taxicab companies, and trustees were leaving it all on the table: no cell phones, no smoking and cleaner fleets. They're even considering a cabbie dress code to replace the current standard, which reads that a driver "be clean in dress and person." Also discussed at the meeting was giving customers a new ways to lodge complaints about a taxi driver, including a complaint phone line that would ring to Village Hall. The goal is to give cab customers "more prominent time to address complaints… and the cab …
