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D.C. Gigs: Taxi Driver

By: Marc Adams // May 6, 2011
  
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Carolyn Robinson has been driving taxicabs through the streets of Washington DC for 36 years.
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Carolyn Robinson has been driving taxicabs through the streets of Washington DC for 36 years.

Carolyn Robinson has been driving a taxicab through the streets of Washington, D.C. for 36 years, chauffeuring everyone from congressmen to mothers on welfare. She says D.C. has more taxi drivers per capita than anywhere else in the world -- making it tough to earn a living as a driver. Marc Adams introduces us to Robinson in this month's D.C. Gigs segment.

[Music: "Working for the Weekend" by The Brown Derbies from We Deliver / "Big Yellow Taxi (In the Style of Joni Mitchell)" by The Karaoke Channel from The Karaoke Channel: In the Style of Joni Mitchell, Vol. 1]

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