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Re:The Uber Conflation by Apes on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @04:12PM (#13814938)
The road congestion theory is a backwards rational -- someone was trying to come with reason for why medallions should still exist and came up with it. There's no way that anyone in 1937 had congestion in mind when they were creating the taxi medallions; to call it a "major" reason for why tax medallions were created is completely absurd.

To cite road congestion as being part of the "spirit" of why taxi medallions were created leaves me with the impression of someone being disingenuous.

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Re:The Uber Conflation by galdosdi on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @04:40PM (#13815223)
> There's no way that anyone in 1937 had congestion in mind when they were creating the taxi medallions

What on earth makes you assert this? The intense and (to modern eyes) borderline insane levels of traffic congestion in NYC at the dawn of the automobile age are very well documented. There are pictures and videos you can easily find, that make today's horrible congestion look bearable and civilized. A lot of traffic rules and devices have their dawn in the same era.

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