Chicago taxi industry sliding towards collapse

Re:Chicago taxi industry sliding towards collapse by bdalgaard on Friday June 09, 2017 @05:21PM (#14524678)

I think there are similar related downsides that could be said about ride-sharing too. If we are giving anecdotal experience then I will say that ride-sharing drivers in Chicago are much more likely to blow through yellow/red lights or park in a cross-walk. The reason is not hard to ascertain: I can easily call 311 on a taxi as a pedestrian with the taxi number.

Personally, I see a lot of people happy killing all of the problems with taxis (particularly in Chicago) but I fear that we are "throwing the baby out with the bathwater". Taxis in Chicago have a ton of problems, but I still have concerns about ride-sharing too.

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Re:Chicago taxi industry sliding towards collapse by techsupporter on Friday June 09, 2017 @06:31PM (#14525088)

Same problem in Seattle, especially with the complete disregard for lane use. Uber and Lyft drivers seem to think that "bus only" is secret code for "all TNC drivers stop here for passengers, especially at peak times."

My personal favorite is how hazard lights have morphed into "I can do whatever I want, just go around me by veering a car / this 60' bus into oncoming traffic."

One of these days I'm going to start spending one of my days off just standing at a random major intersection and emailing SDOT/SPD and posting on Twitter the license plate numbers of every Uber/Lyft driver behaving badly.

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