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Most Summers it's a bit harder driving a taxi. Affluent Manhattanites are out of town. The kids at NYU and Columbia are gone. If the dollar is strong, like it's been awhile then foreign tourists are not filling the gap . It's tough for the liveries too so lots of them turn to poaching street hails whether they're affiliates of Uber or ABC.
New taxi drivers and taxi drivers who like to see the end of the world always seem to be found by Daily News reporters doing their taxi human interest piece for August. A perfect storm for complaints about Uber. Daily News reporters Nolan Hicks and Dan Rivoli got the story this year.
There's no doubt that yellow cab receipts are down but so is the number of yellow taxis on the prowl. First some drivers went to Green cabs. Second some went to Uber and third, some took off to visit their native lands. It happens every summer. So yellow taxi receipts are down, but spread among fewer taxi drivers. Fewer cabbies chasing fares mean fewer fares.
Lawrence Meyers pointed out some rusty spots on Uber' s shiny suit of PR armor, namely that Uber appears to be tapped out. Out of of the highly touted number of 20,0000 Ubers on the road in New York City only around 3000 are actually working at any given time. Of course Uber/ Goldman Sachs is a threat to all transportation workers on earth today. I wouldn't be happy if I were not fighting Uber.
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Most Summers it's a bit harder driving a taxi. Affluent Manhattanites are out of town. The kids at NYU and Columbia are gone. If the dollar is strong, like it's been awhile then foreign tourists are not filling the gap . It's tough for the liveries too so lots of them turn to poaching street hails whether they're affiliates of Uber or ABC.
New taxi drivers and taxi drivers who like to see the end of the world always seem to be found by Daily News reporters doing their taxi human interest piece for August. A perfect storm for complaints about Uber. Daily News reporters Nolan Hicks and Dan Rivoli got the story this year.
There's no doubt that yellow cab receipts are down but so is the number of yellow taxis on the prowl. First some drivers went to Green cabs. Second some went to Uber and third, some took off to visit their native lands. It happens every summer. So yellow taxi receipts are down, but spread among fewer taxi drivers. Fewer cabbies chasing fares mean fewer fares.
Lawrence Meyers pointed out some rusty spots on Uber' s shiny suit of PR armor, namely that Uber appears to be tapped out. Out of of the highly touted number of 20,0000 Ubers on the road in New York City only around 3000 are actually working at any given time. Of course Uber/ Goldman Sachs is a threat to all transportation workers on earth today. I wouldn't be happy if I were not fighting Uber.
STOMPING OUT UBER MEANS STARVING GOOBERS
Goobers live on surge prices. The straight up Uber fare just doesn't support a Goober and a car. One way to starve a Goober is to be where Uber is demanding surge prices.Uber customers often will cancel a priceyGoober if there's an empty cheaper taxi who reaches them first.
Sherpa Share has an app that shows where the demand for Uber is greater than the supply of GOOBERS. These heat zones are the best place to be for finding a fare. This is no guarantee, but where the map is red, Uber passengers will pay extra, sometimes a whole lot extra. As a bonus you could be taking a fare away from Uber and helping starve a Goober.
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