About

The revolutionary web-based, mobile-enabled “cab sharing” platform.

From the CabCorner FACEBOOK group:

Welcome to CabCorner.com, the world’s first and favorite cab-sharing website!  Use our system to find (and split cab fares with) fellow travelers headed your way. Connect via computer or web-enabled cellphone, and post your ride today!  Become one of the many urbanites who turn to cabcorner for affordable taxicab commuting.  CabCorner is designed to help commuters citywide save money.  But more importantly, CabCorner will help reduce air pollution, street traffic, and subway congestion. 
This is our time, this is our city, this is our responsibility.

CabCorner.com is an innovative “cab share” website that aggregates user-generated cab rides and matches riders willing to split the fare.  Our service provides a market-based solution for people who want the convenience of a cab for a fraction of the cost.  The benefits of cab sharing are far-reaching: sharing resources, providing an additional transportation option, increasing capacity, easing congestion, and improving fuel efficiency.  (On top of these benefits, cab sharing will provide a measure of certainty as New York City’s MTA scrambles to plug its $1.2 billion budget deficit!)

Services like CabCorner thrive by helping users find cab rides that complement their itinerary.  If no such trip exists, users can create a new ride.  Traditionally, this type of service has been restricted to “blue van shuttles” that organize trips by either starting or ending at an airport.  By organizing riders by point of origin or destination, it’s easy to coordinate a route that picks up or drops off riders along the way.  CabCorner, however, casts a wider net than previous services by using the Internet to pool riders who share a common itinerary.

Developing programs that encourage cab sharing, and resource sharing in general, can play a role in easing our reliance on oil, reducing carbon emissions, easing congestion, and bringing down the cost of cab rides.  CabCorner improves fuel-efficiency by optimizing productivity and curbing the harmful emissions wasted as cab drivers cruise for passengers. By sharing cabs, the existing cab capacity—roughly 50,000 yellow cabs, black cars, and limousines—will be able to serve up to four times as many cab commuters without spending an additional municipal, state, or federal dollar on costly infrastructure.

Our Home Base:

In NYC, while the MTA wrestles with its financial problems, it has promised to reduce service and increase fares.  The consequences of this policy are dire: more delays, increased overcrowding during the peak hours, longer wait times for buses and trains, and dirtier facilities. Faced with this reality, New Yorkers will welcome additional transportation options that offer reliability and comfort at an affordable price.  CabCorner won’t serve everyone affected by the MTA’s cuts, but it could move bus and subway riders into cabs, which would in turn alleviate delays caused by passengers and congestion on trains and buses.

As the city’s transportation network continues to crumble, New Yorkers will seek out alternative transportation options like CabCorner to travel throughout the city. Cab share programs could provide necessary relief to residents and visitors as the financial crisis forces the MTA to delay vital transportation projects, such as the completion of the Second Avenue Subway and Eastside Access.  By sharing resources, in this case cabs, New Yorkers will benefit by lowering the cost of a cab ride, lessening congestion, and limiting harmful exhaust.

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