Re:London Ultra Low Emission Zone cuts toxic air pollution b...
by makomk on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @09:06AM
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Other private hire companies existed 10 years ago, they were just generally telephone based rather than internet-based.
Re:London Ultra Low Emission Zone cuts toxic air pollution b...
by jason0597 on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @04:32PM
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Add to that that then-telephone-only private hire companies are moving to the internet, you're now left with the question of what makes Uber better than another private hire company
Re:London Ultra Low Emission Zone cuts toxic air pollution b...
by isostatic on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @06:46AM
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Ubiquity -- Uber works in London, but it also works in Manchester, and Cardiff, and New York, and Sydney
Addison Lee works in London.
Re:London Ultra Low Emission Zone cuts toxic air pollution b...
by stuaxo on Thursday October 24, 2019 @05:48AM
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Uber has almost completely wiped these out.
There used to be loads of taxi offices, you would go in and talk to a human and outside you would get into a taxi.
Now, the offices still exist - but if you go in, it's just an empty room with a phone for you to speak to some central room.
Uber has killed all these small businesses.
I'm mostly an Uber user now, but even I still end up in a taxi on (very rare) occasions at home and more often when travelling and unable to use Uber or another ridesharing app for some reason.
There's also a decent population of older people who don't use rideshare apps and depend on the taxi system (I write from the perspective of an Australian, not a Londoner, but I'm guessing it may be similar there).