People take more than four hundred and eighty-five thousand taxi trips per day in New York, and the taxi system, though minuscule compared with the M.T.A., could be considered the seventh-largest transportation system in the country.
Update: Can that be right? From the same source: "The typical taxi trip is under three miles and lasts twelve minutes. . . " If the average trip is just two miles, cabs drive almost a million miles a day -- enough to go around the world 40 times! And if the typical trip carries just one passenger, that works out to more than 10 passenger-years each day.
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