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Mark Cohen is the Director of the Boston Police Department’s Licensing Division. Among the Divisions many responsibilities is to regulate both the Boston taxi and sightseeing industries. Other transportation related licenses which fall under the direction of Mr. Cohen include pedicabs, bike  messengers and horse carriages.

Mr. Cohen has been associated with the regulation of taxicabs and other forms of transportation since coming to work for the Boston Police Department in 1985. Mr. Cohen has been involved in efforts to increase the number of Taxi medallions  and to introduce the 100 wheelchair accessible vehicles currently available as  cabs in Boston.


Mark Cohen
Director
Boston, MA, USA
Under Mr. Cohen’s direction, Boston recently overhauled the Rules and Regulations under which all taxi operate.  These regulations call for  various innovations and upgrades in technology such as, credit card acceptance and Global Positioning Systems in all taxicabs. He was part of a group of taxi and  paratransit regulators who first met in Boston in the late 1980’s which later became known as the IATR.

 


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