The decision has ramifications beyond striking down a plan to put street-hail cars in boroughs outside Manhattan's central business district, where people looking for a ride usually must calla livery cab to pick them up or hope that a yellow taxi passes by.
She said the funniest email request she ever got was to call in a prescription to the pharmacy and arrange for ataxi to transport the meds to the Fire Island ferry.
Miss Manning had walked off alone to get ataxi but phoned her home in Wolverton from acall box at 02:43 and spoke to her flatmate to say she was upset.
To see where all this could go, think about another failed Motorola-designed communications network, a phone-taxi dispatch hybrid with clunky phones, poor call quality and lousy customer service.