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1913–TODAY · THE UNREGULATED PARALLEL
The fare card: The taxi is the oldest for-hire transport in this record and the least documented. It appears in the 1913–14 Griswold-Phelps handbook with a published fare card — thirty cents for the first mile for one or two passengers, with added charges by the quarter-mile and for waiting — and with the pointed notation that the fares were "not regulated by ordinance": the streetcar beside it ran under franchise and commission, the cab under the market. Taxis have worked Fort Wayne under that lighter regime ever since, and no company-by-company history of them is documented in the sources reached. Their place in the modern record is at the curb of the transit system itself: Citilink Central Station was designed with dedicated spaces for taxi, county and social-service pick-up alongside the bus bays. Airport ground transport at Fort Wayne International belongs to the airport's own record; no documented history of it was reached for this section, and none is asserted.
Sources: the Griswold-Phelps Handbook and Guide to Fort Wayne, 1913–14 (the taxicab fare card and the "not regulated by ordinance" notation); the Citilink Central Station project description, 2011–12 (the taxi and kiss-and-ride provision).