Some travelers experienced the frustration of longer waits for cabs Wednesday as a number of the D.C.’s taxi drivers joined a Halloween strike to protest the city’s move to metered fares.

The strike’s objective, according to William J. Wright of the Taxicab Industry Group, was to send a message to Mayor Adrian Fenty, who decided on Oct. 17 toswitch from a zone-based fare system to a metered system based on time and distance.

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