Black with a yellow stripe is common in Barcelona or yellow in New York
Taxis are a type of vehicle that has been with us for more than a century and the fact is that the taximeter is an invention from the end of the 19th century. Depending on the country, and even the city, the color of this type of vehicle will be different. A user on Twitter explained the reason why the taxis have a different color in each place and also the origin of their having a specific color.
In the beginning, taxis did not have a common price, but this varied depending on the vehicle, so the need arose to differentiate the price of each type of taxi in some way. The solution was to paint a stripe on the vehicles and, depending on the color, each one would have a different price. Those that charged 40 cents per kilometer had a white stripe; in the case of being 50 cents, it was red; yellow for 60 cents and blue for 80 cents per kilometer.
In Barcelona, everything changed with the 1929 Expo. The arrival of tourists to the city caused a conflict with prices, so it was decided to unify all rates at 60 cents per kilometer, which left all taxis with the Yellow stripe. As the taxis were already black, this caused them to begin to have the appearance that has come to this day. It is a case similar to Madrid, where black and red were chosen, although in the 1980s the general color black was changed to white with a red stripe.
Hello good, Have you ever wondered why the colors of taxis are like this? Were they always like this? What are they different in each country and even city?
Let’s go for a ride in a taxi (don’t worry, I invite you)
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albertofm_.d (@Albertofm20) February 12, 2022
If we go abroad, the reason why taxis in London are black is that they already came out of the factory like that. In the US, the reason why taxis are yellow is Harry N. Allen, who created the NewYork TaxiCab, a company that used that color because of how striking it was and so people could identify that they were the of that company.
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