Taxi Company Wins OK for Discounts to Troops

The Los Angeles Board of Transportation Commissioners on Thursday approved a modified version of a request by a taxi company to offer discounts to U.S. troops returning from the Persian Gulf War.

The board unanimously approved a provision to allow Bell Cab Co-Op and other cab companies in the city to give military personnel a 50% discount on fares up to $20 for a period of six months. The program must be approved by the City Council before it can go into effect.

Last month, Bell Cab President Bahman Azmoudeh wrote a letter to the commissioners, explaining his idea to honor the troops and their families with cut rates as a show of “gratitude for their extraordinary sacrifice and service by doing what we can to ease the burden they bear today and in the days to come.”