[dmix]

Taxi commissions make a significant amount of money from Taxi medallions. They can cost anywhere from $200k-$1 million dollars each in some cities.

[eli]

No, they don't. There are no medallions in DC. And any money they "make" goes to the city's general fund anyway.

[dmix]

Ah you're right.

Only source I could find about revenue is how they added $9.9 million in revenue by increasing the surcharge by 50 cents and recently awarded a $35 million dollar contract to Verifone.

So they must be generating some significant amount of money still.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/mike-debonis/post/final-...