That’s an angle I hadn’t considered: collusion between existing cab companies and the government to keep out competition.
I don’t want to pretend to know a lot about the cab business, but my understanding is that the partnership between cab companies and government is exactly how it operates in most cities.
“That’s an angle I hadn’t considered: collusion between existing cab companies and the government to keep out competition.”
That’s pretty much the taxi-cab business everywhere. Then add unionized cab drivers and it’s a perfect political storm. The businesses don’t want competition and the union doesn’t want competition. So dems and R’s have cover to vote for restricted market access.
In Colorado, we partly saved Uber and Lyft from PUC regulation. The taxi companies and unions went to the PUC and the PUC was going to put Uber out of business here. R’s in the legislature lead the charge (mostly) to put limits on what the PUC could do.
Really? You hadn’t considered that?