These taxi drivers have gone off the deep end. what we need are those taxi call boxes, you have all taxis stationed at one location downtown and have them sign in when they arrive, when someone uses the call box (which works much like a radio or intercom would) a taxi is sent on a first come first serve basis. if you would like to drive around and pick up customers like they do in new york then you are more than welcome to. i just think it is ridiculous to have a 30-min limit. if i were to park on east street and want to go to john bull it would take me 10 mins to walk there and back giving me only 10 mins to shop! and what about restaurants?? what happens when a local Bahamian wants to go and get lunch downtown?? that most certainly takes more than half an hr. I have not been shopping downtown in years for this exact reason, it is unfair to the business and locals who would like to support them. something like this could quite possibly kill all local business downtown, but taxi drivers don't care about that i guess because locals don't use taxis. they are being incredibly selfish and lazy to be honest, we all need to work together to support our own people and something like this is just punishing locals for wanting to do that.