The city has just 39 licensed cab drivers.

  • BombOmOm@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Honestly, it was both, plus a third thing.

    • Uber/Lyft pay like shit and run at a loss.

    • Cabs almost universally sucked. Nobody wanted to use one outside of somewhere like NYC; and only then because parking sucked so hard driving yourself is an even shittier option than the shitty cabs.

    • In places like NYC, the government over regulated cabs so hard the medallions cost into the 6 and 7 digits of dollars. Out-competing that simply involved…not paying 7-digit sums of cash just for the ability to work as a cabbie…