Graft is more important than safety
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June 21st, 2016 at 6:16 pm
Yep; government-enforced union monopolies = more money for Democrats– It’s the circle of (authoritarian) life.
June 22nd, 2016 at 1:36 am
What graft? What union monopolies? Cabs are like a public utility. They’ve got to provide service to everybody and charge only what the city allows them to charge. In agreeing to do that, they get a medallion and a chauffeur’s license, and the promise that people without a medallion and a chauffeur’s license will not steal their bread and butter fares and leave them only with the marginal ones.
Uber (I don’t know about Lyft) is running a transparent fraud. A network of unlicensed cabs in the guise of “ride-sharing”. Pretending like they’re just giving a hitchhiker a lift and the hitchhiker is pitching in with gas money. Pfui!
June 22nd, 2016 at 2:00 pm
nk, there are less than 1000 cabs in the entire city, and during conventions up to 50,000 people visit our fair city, with desires to party hard and get a ride home.
The creation of an artificial shortage is what local government has mandated with its taxi monopoly. And Uber is not a fraud; one knows exactly what one is getting by requesting an Uber driver, which is overwhelmingly a better, cleaner car, a better knowledge of the locale by the driver, and a ride when you need or want one, not hours later.
June 22nd, 2016 at 5:42 pm
1,000 cabs for a city of 1.5 million is way too few, I agree. San Antonio should do like Chicago did and issue more medallions, by lottery, to experienced, licensed cab drivers who do not already own a medallion but have been driving as employees or leasing.