Red picked as new D.C. taxi color

By Liz Essley
Published February 13, 2013 5:00am ET
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Red picked as new D.C. taxi color
Graeme Jennings/Examiner File Yellow taxis could be a thing of the past in the District after a panel recommended Wednesday that all D.C. cabs should be painted red by 2018. | Graeme Jennings

Red will be the color of all D.C. taxis by 2018, assuming the cogs in D.C. government keep turning as planned.

The city’s cabs will be painted the same color under a law to update the taxi industry passed by the D.C. Council in July. A special panel tasked with studying what color will be best for D.C. taxis on Wednesday picked the crimson option.

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