Uber Shuts Down Yellow Cab Service in New York
The mobile cab-hailing company Uber announced Tuesday that it has shut down its yellow cab service in New York, but will keep the town car service running.
The mobile cab-hailing company Uber announced Tuesday that it has shut down its yellow cab service in New York, but will keep its town car service running.
Uber has evidently met with forces that aren’t appear ready to be disrupted: unions and taxi medallion bureaucracies.
“New York’s Taxi and Limousine Commission put up obstacles and roadblocks in order to squash the effort around e-hail, which they privately have said is legal under the rules,” co-founder and CEO Travis Kalanick wrote in a blog
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