[kdmhcdcfld]

If true, this would be rather curious!

[hellinahandcart]

It is nearly impossible to get a taxi anywhere in town at that hour of the day. So while the person may have stood there looking for a cab, there is nothing sinister in the fact that she didn't see one. She really thought she'd have no trouble finding a cab at the southern end of Manhattan between 8 and 9 in the morning? Are we sure she really lives here?

Sounds a bit hysterical to me. I heard many Arab cab drivers were staying home in the days AFTER the attack, but nothing about drivers calling in sick before. Also, I don't know where this runor that all cabbies are Arabs got started--they come in all nationalities.

[jlogajan]

Is this true?

That about answers that question.

[Agog]

Getting a cab in the Wall Street Area is always a great challenge. Also, we are getting this fourth hand, which hardly makes this report credible.

[BurkeanCyclist]

Ah, so every cab driver in New York is in on it?

Veeeeeery interesting....

[waxhaw]

What I am more curious about is: How did Clinton get back into the United States so quickly? He was in Australia when the terror attack occured, the federal goverment grounded all commercial flights and several days passed before commercial flights were allowed to land in the U.S. I haven't seen anything in the media to explain this... since I live in Mexico I'm aware of quite a few people who had plans to fly to the U.S. but were unable to travel by commercial air until the 16th of September. Did Clinton arrive back in the U.S. at that time?

[StWendeler]

This is false. I saw a woman on Fox who escaped the WTC collision and hailed a cab to north Manhattan... where she watched the collapse occur on TV.

[OWK]

[Rustynailww]

anyone have any links to stories about looting.

[Rome2000]

As an ex NYC cab driver, believe me, these guys are so exhausted after driving their 12 hour shifts 6 days a week that most of them don't have time to join any terrorist cells.

Most of the trips downtown at that time of the morning are via the FDR and West Side Highway and then back out the same way, there aren't a lot of fares going uptown, too much traffic(people take the train or walk).

I think this is an unfounded rumor.

[finnman69]

this is nonsense...I headed uptown after the attack and there were tons of cabs...all full...a very busy day for picking up fares when there was no subway service.

[LisaFab]

Many guys who work in the field at our Exchange Place office confirmed what we heard often during the day over WABC radio - that the cabbies disappeared off the streets right after the attack.

Maybe they were just afraid.

[NativeNewYorker]

Emphatically NOT true.

The Mohammeds and Abduls have been utterly miserable, driving empty cabs and trying not to get spit on.

Getting a cab downtown during the rush hour is like fishing for winning, but discarded, betting slips at the track. Only the lucky get 'em.