Oh no! You can't drive without a 'medallion"...
What does the city charge for them? Last I heard it was $25,000. (each)
So this guy is pissing and moaning about how little tax money the city gets from Uber. What people should get from this is HOW LITTLE TAXI'S COULD CHARGE if they did not have to pay the city all that money
Need a wheelchair cab? call a cab company an request them- dont FORCE all taxis' to be accessable when most of them never have or never will have a wheelchair passenger.
It's this kind of "not giving enoug money to the government" mentality that has gotten us where we are.
NY medallions are going for about a MILLION bucks each!
http://nycitycab.com/business/taximedallionlist.aspx
It’s a ridiculous proposition that Uber’s business practices are just solely as a result of the example of the abuse by bureaucracies in some markets to cause regulatory bloat of livery services.
Taxi service is regulated on a LOCAL level and subject to that municipality’s jurisdiction, no other. Far be it from me to tell NY, yours, or any other community how to run the taxi services. The argument that Uber breeds competition by entering markets and breaking rules is specious at best, certain anti-conservative by dictating to other cities how to run their livery services.
If NY wants to change how they run taxis, let New Yorkers figure it out, not be told by outsiders.
My market has decent livery services and regulations. My market also told Uber to “take an effin leap” in response to their demands and they walked away.
Just because some jurisdictions are liberal, suffer regulatory bloat and may or may not be unfair to competition does not justify an outside corporate influence coming in and breaking local rules and laws because the emotional argument is made. There are many analogous circumstances to be cited....so many I relent on that.
We told Uber to take an effin leap and I say the same to any others that assert they have a right to come here and break our fair and locally-agreed regulations for livery services. Safety, insurance, costs and quality of service are not a problem here and, frankly, none of outsiders’ damn business.
If you don’t like our taxi services and unhappy uber isn’t here, then dont come here or go anywhere else those uber supporters might be dissatisfied. It aint rocket science....