I think that this is how we get upset about Uber, because men were taxi drivers and women were not taxi drivers.
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"Until today, taxi drivers chose passengers," one user, Sinem, tweeted, referring to taxi drivers who won't accept short trips, even for pregnant women.
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SATA, a regional union representing taxi drivers, called a nine-hour strike on Tuesday against "every innovative platform robbing taxi drivers and our country".
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If nothing else ... she managed to dodge creepy taxi drivers.
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Taxi drivers puff away in the queues at petrol stations.
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And, in the words of taxi drivers everywhere, be lucky.
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Another finding was that taxi drivers treat the sexes differently.
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The court says Uber represents unfair competition for taxi drivers.
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Muslim taxi drivers are offering free rides in the city.
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Some of them, like fake taxi drivers, are fairly universal.
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South Korea had about 270,000 taxi drivers on June 30.
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On his first day, taxi drivers met him with animosity.
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Driverless cars may well replace truck, bus, and taxi drivers.
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Taxi drivers complained that they were cut off from fares.
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Taxi drivers say their business has been decimated by Uber.
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What about the taxi drivers and Uber and Lyft drivers?
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Some taxi drivers even use it just for small talk.
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Also, since when is there so much solidarity with taxi drivers?
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Even Cairo taxi drivers can rattle off its satellite co-ordinates.
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But regular taxi drivers have complained about its impact on business.
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Taxi drivers in Madrid are also on strike from this morning.
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The taxi drivers refused to service the airport during the demonstration.
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Taxi drivers have all kinds of people getting in their cars.
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They included taxi drivers, Iraqi soldiers and defectors from Islamic State.
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"Many taxi drivers think they're above the law," Miglino told me.
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Interestingly, nearly 90 percent of U.S. taxi drivers are independent contractors.
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Uber, Lyft, and taxi drivers wear a lot of different hats.
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As several fellow taxi drivers said: They killed him for nothing.
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Taxi drivers and passengers could be extremely rude to each other.
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Taxi drivers have felt the change most directly from ride sharing.
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Taxi drivers kept off the streets to avoid the blazing sun.
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There are 207,920 taxi drivers and chauffeurs employed in the US.
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Reckless loans have devastated a generation of New York taxi drivers.
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The higher level matches the rule in Montreal for taxi drivers.
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It's not just the taxi-drivers replaced by Uber and Lyft.
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Few buildings here have addresses, so taxi drivers operate by landmarks.
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I grew up where the taxi drivers didn't like to go.
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Taxi drivers in Paris and other cities have protested the company's presence and — like taxi drivers in many American cities — have argued that Uber drivers have an unfair advantage because they are not as heavily regulated.
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Blue Bird taxi drivers had then lined the streets to protest ride-hailing apps Last year in March, a mob of 10,000 taxi drivers parked their cars in protest along central Jakarta's main roadways, paralysing traffic downtown.
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The closely watched case has been taken to the EU's highest court by Barcelona's established taxi drivers, who, like taxi drivers the world over, complain that Uber has muscled into their market by circumventing local transport regulations.
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But Israeli regulations, in a bid to protect taxi drivers' income, forbid non-authorized drivers from earning money while ferrying passengers around which means services like Uber and Gett are only allowed to use licensed taxi drivers.
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But the NYWTA thinks that cab and taxi drivers should be exempt.
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If you can't find it, the motorcycle taxi drivers should know it.
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"Those who are remaining [as taxi-drivers] are losing hope," he says.
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Prior to Uber, taxi-drivers in most cities were already self-employed.
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Taxi drivers do not see TfL as a sympathetic regulator, he argues.
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It is not just the licensed taxi drivers who are at risk.
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The taxi drivers were protesting President Trump's controversial executive order restricting immigration.
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Taxi drivers insult you copiously if you want to pay by card.
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Why it matters: This bloodletting is forcing the taxi drivers into foreclosure.
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Taxi drivers are expected to rally outside the court during the morning.
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Taxi drivers always know the best spots, so ask them for sure.
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That's essentially what's happened to thousands of New York City taxi drivers.
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A writer friend told me never to quote children or taxi drivers.
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In fact, two taxi drivers died in separate incidents by self-immolation.
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In Japan, most taxi drivers belong to companies and few operate independently.
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Most of the human taxi drivers had already disappeared by this time.
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One, some taxi drivers were simply afraid to go to the 'hood.
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Emma reports on the suicides of several New York City taxi drivers.
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Even after returning to Düsseldorf, Uber has faced an obstacle: taxi drivers.
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Beyond tensions with taxi drivers, Uber has to deal with customer awareness.
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These posts from Poland claimed migrant taxi drivers are raping European women.
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Taxi drivers would transact directly with passengers without Uber knowing everyone's location.
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Even local taxi drivers have trouble navigating, and mobile phone signals fade.
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I grew up where the taxi drivers didn&apost like to travel.
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Students, retirees and taxi drivers have led protests against South Korean businesses.
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Taxi drivers joke that they will soon be taking payments in euros.
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Cities could build Transit apps that allowed taxi drivers to field requests.
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My Taxi, in contrast to Uber, works exclusively with licensed taxi drivers.
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Taxi drivers can work for Uber or they can find another position.
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Media reports suggest the government, under pressure from traditional taxi drivers to act, plans to force ride-hailing app operators to sign three-year contracts with licensed taxi drivers, turning them into fully-fledged providers instead of "intermediaries".
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Taxi drivers have staged high-profile protests against Uber in many European countries.
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For many, tipping workers such as waitstaff, hairdressers or taxi drivers is expected.
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Italy's taxi drivers staged a sixth day of protests in major cities Tuesday.
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The taxi drivers, the host in our building, the people in the streets.
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Kakao Mobility also runs a cab-hailing service connecting taxi drivers and passengers.
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AT A busy intersection in downtown Freetown, motorbike-taxi drivers wait for customers.
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Taxi drivers and private "driver partners" often use both platforms to solicit rides.
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They agree that, apart from some taxi drivers, the Chinese are very helpful.
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Cover: Vinod Malhotra outside Punjabi Deli, a takeout spot popular with taxi drivers.
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Taxi drivers see Uber as a major threat to their way of life.
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Indonesian taxi drivers block a major street during a March 14's rally.
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The squabble raged on between London's black-taxi drivers and app upstart Uber.
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Cleve has a habit of trying out his new music on taxi drivers.
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Yet somehow, taxi drivers seemed to be doing it while barely slowing down.
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Taxi drivers craned their heads from cab windows and smiled with each crescendo.
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At least six taxi drivers committed suicide in the first half of 2018.
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I tip taxi-drivers ten, twenty dollars every time they don't rape me.
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Pizza delivery guys, truckers, taxi drivers and countless others could lose their jobs.
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Taxi drivers point to onerous costs they must pay but Uber does not.
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Taxi drivers now have a relief area, by Houston and East First Streets.
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At the Caracas airport, unwary travellers are robbed, and worse, by taxi-drivers.
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And taxi drivers have indeed lost their livelihoods — and taken their own lives.
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Furious taxi drivers and bus drivers went on strike, blocking hundreds of crossroads.
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Some of its drivers have been attacked by angry taxi drivers in Paris.
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Uber recently returned to Spain, this time in partnership with licensed taxi drivers.
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That's a guild over there for taxi drivers, and they're really busting it.
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Mustafa said her customers included dog walkers, nurses, taxi drivers and online daters.
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Protesters chanted messages of welcome to refugees as taxi drivers honked in support.
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Unlike Uber, WeWork doesn't have displaced employees to fight off like taxi drivers.
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One of the poster children for neuroplasticity are the London taxi drivers, and studies show that as taxi drivers learn to navigate the streets and memorize the routes, the hippocampus — the part of the brain that does spatial navigation — gets larger.
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In May this year, taxi drivers from three Spanish cities staged a protest in the capital against Uber and another local ride-hailing startup, Cabify — with taxi drivers angry that private hire vehicles do not face the same regulatory burdens.
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The Bratislava-based Association of certified taxi drivers filed the lawsuit in January, arguing Uber drivers do not meet the requirements for professional taxi drivers and the cars do not meet the safety and regulatory requirements for professional transport services.
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Taxi drivers protesting on Thursday carried signs calling Uber illegal and its customers "corrupt".
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The faster we get going, the faster the grocer gets paid, the taxi drivers.
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In 2014, a judge ruled that the firm represented unfair competition for taxi drivers.
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Taxi drivers, naturally keen on long queues for their service, are once again resisting.
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There was also a difference between the way that taxi drivers treated different sexes.
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In Lagos some taxi-drivers are even thought to be in cahoots with kidnappers.
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Taxi drivers also reportedly gave free lifts to concert-goers affected by the tragedy.
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In Buenos Aires, the country's capital, taxi-drivers have staged violent protests against Uber.
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And taxi drivers were worried Uber was going to put them out of business.
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Both taxi drivers and private "driver partners" often use both platforms to solicit rides.
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The vehicles will be driven by taxi drivers from the Fukuoka Nishitetsu Taxi company.
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That's how big cities can regulate competition between taxi drivers and on-demand services.
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Others are developing profit-sharing platforms for filmmakers, domestic workers, taxi drivers and musicians.
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Still ahead of police are farmers, ranchers, construction workers, electrical workers, and taxi drivers.
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UberTaxi, which enables passengers to request rides via licensed taxi drivers, is not affected.
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Local taxi drivers were understandably less excited that robots were coming for their jobs.
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In some cities, taxi drivers have gone on strike, sometimes harassing ride-share drivers.
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I could not take a taxi — it was the taxi drivers who were rioting.
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As thousands of taxi drivers were trapped in loans, top officials counted the money.
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In urging regulation, taxi drivers say they just want to level the playing field.
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Upon hearing the news, British tabloids, not to mention Cockney taxi drivers, went nuts.
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Taxi drivers pointed out Morgan Freeman's former home and Richard Branson's two nearby islands.
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Several motorcycle taxi drivers drove circles around their coffins, in a sign of respect.
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Boston taxi drivers tried to get Uber kicked out of the city last year.
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After all, he said, "I'm sure taxi drivers thought they weren't threatened by Uber."
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Taxi drivers view the ruling — which Uber is likely to appeal — as a victory.
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In May, 10 taxi drivers were killed in a single weekend in Cape Town.
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Polish taxi drivers have staged protests demanding equal rules for themselves and drivers of app-based car firms such as Uber, mytaxi and itaxi, which have become hugely popular in Polish cities but licensed taxi drivers complain they are driving down taxi fares.
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The Licensed Taxi Drivers' Association (LTDA) confirmed it was discussing a suit with its lawyers.
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In my community, my uncles, my aunts, the taxi drivers, they had American flags everywhere.
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Taxi-drivers, earning an average of £3203,300 a year, will fork out an extra £20.
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Photo by Marcos del Mazo/LightRocket via Getty Images Taxi drivers protest Uber in Madrid.
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Chinese taxi drivers queue up to have their smartphones installed with Kuaidi Dache in 2014.
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They have plenty of tales of getting lost, disoriented and ripped off by taxi drivers.
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No more puzzling over transit maps, interrogating unhelpful bus drivers, or negotiating with taxi drivers.
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Two more strikes are planned by Spain's taxi drivers for July, according to Euro Weekly.
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Taxi drivers in Madrid parked their cars and commiserated with their colleagues in the streets.
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And autonomous cars could replace the jobs of millions of truck, bus and taxi drivers.
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In January taxi drivers in Gevgelija began blocking the railway line out of the camp.
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They want to protect incumbents, such as taxi drivers; he knows that consumers like Uber.
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In Poland, they disseminated a fake news story about migrant taxi drivers raping European women.
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I think the benefit is that the taxi drivers are very keen on the service.
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Some San Francisco taxi drivers are turning an airport parking lot into a literal dump.
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Cabify said that taxi drivers and app-based services can coexist to provide quality service.
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Striking Barcelona taxi drivers will vote on the proposed restrictions on Wednesday, according to reports.
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This time, they'd implemented a new program that required taxi drivers to pay for licenses.
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Taxi drivers waved down the few shocked passengers trickling out of the bomb-scarred building.
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They switched to Halal food in the early 1990s after noticing demand among taxi drivers.
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The show had a cult following, especially among late-shift workers and nocturnal taxi drivers.
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Haitian immigrants contribute to American society as doctors, taxi drivers, lawyers, nurses, teachers and more.
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Toronto taxi drivers have held protests and gone to court to try to halt Uber.
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He said Uber's departure would help 6,000 taxi drivers in Denmark continue making a living.
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Residents include public school teachers, call center workers, small business owners and tricycle taxi drivers.
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But few taxi drivers would have the time and inclination to do any of this.
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By quirk of demographics, taxi drivers will be at any of these South Asian restaurants.
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As one of Rome's taxi drivers told me, "Salvini always has something up his sleeve."
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But its standard app-based service still prompts occasional strikes and clashes with taxi drivers.
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The taxi drivers who would ordinarily flock to meet arriving cruises were in short supply.
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Taxi drivers were avoiding the city center, some in protest, others to protect their vehicles.
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A spate of deaths by suicides has underscored the financial plight many taxi drivers face.
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The London Taxi Drivers' Association has raised complaints against Uber's operations in the British capital.
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Everybody — hotels, department stores, taxi drivers, noodle stands — takes Alipay or WeChat Pay or both.
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Taxi drivers appear to be among the hardest hit by the opening of the airport.
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They are prominent scientists and engineers; they are taxi drivers, doctors, nurses and professional athletes.
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Taxi drivers could use the new measures to force customers to pay more for their rides.
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On August 2, a transgender woman was murdered in a mob attack by motorbike taxi drivers.
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Four broad groups of people soon emerged: taxi drivers, Uber drivers, Uber passengers, and other passengers.
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President Raúl Castro has allowed more Cubans to operate as private taxi drivers and tour guides.
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In New York, 80% of the limo and taxi drivers seen all over NYC are immigrants.
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But Uber typically hurt taxi drivers by sidestepping the rules while providing convenience to its users.
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Shortly after the taxi drivers gathered in Albany, another driver, who drove for Lyft, killed himself.
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Last November, 250 taxi drivers in Kuala Lumpur marched in the streets against Uber and Grab.
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The concern is that the ride-hailing services are leading to lower wages for taxi drivers.
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Two were taxi drivers and one was a mobile phone financial services agent, court documents said.
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In France, for example, taxi drivers clashed with police during January protests over ride-hailing services.
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The union, which represents about 50,000 taxi drivers, also objects to discounts by some app operators.
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In France, two Uber executives were arrested after a nationwide strike by that country's taxi drivers.
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Taxi drivers reportedly denied rides to protesters attending a far-right rally in Philadelphia on Saturday.
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Taxi drivers are currently limited to shifts of 12 hours, which are common in the industry.
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Taxi drivers idled outside, waving down the few shocked passengers who trickled out of the building.
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It seems similar to passengers looking for taxis, and taxi drivers looking for their next fare.
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They knocked on doors; security-camera footage was retrieved; taxi drivers in the area were contacted.
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But for truck drivers, taxi drivers, and middle-income people with cars, the increase was significant.
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But getting to El Pana Street was difficult because taxi drivers didn't know where it was.
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More: New York City officials introduced new programs aimed at protecting taxi drivers from onerous loans.
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Likewise, a group of self-styled disenchanted taxi drivers or Vegans wanting to change human behaviour.
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He would take calls from anyone, whether they were members of Congress, celebrities or taxi drivers.
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Taxi drivers staged protests in Split, Zagreb and Dubrovnik last month that clogged the cities' streets.
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Newspaper salesmen, taxi drivers, chain smokers in the coffee house: All are living on the brink.
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As in other markets, Uber drivers have faced opposition and sometimes hostility from other taxi drivers.
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It has resumed services only with licensed taxi drivers but plans to later add private cars.
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Other taxi drivers detained the gunman until the police arrived and arrested him, seizing two handguns.
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Taxi drivers and cleaning ladies quote prices in dollars, even if they accept payment in bolívares.
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This year's calendar only features male taxi drivers, but Kirkman explained that they've photographed female drivers before.
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These were the scenes last year when French taxi drivers protested against U.S. ride-hailing app Uber.
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Armed groups, older men in host communities, and others like taxi drivers and landlords were found guilty.
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That means taxi drivers were performing about twice as many rides per week as Uber drivers were.
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Taxi drivers, on the other hand, were performing 91 trips per week, or 13 trips a day.
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Similar Paris protests in June turned violent, with taxi drivers overturning cars and clashing with the police.
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The taxi drivers want the wait time to be much longer than that; at least 22019 hours.
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Both firms have invested in training Japanese taxi drivers on how to use their apps on smartphones.
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The major one they think about nowadays is Uber, and they see taxi drivers losing their jobs.
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Starting in November 2017, Uber drivers performed more monthly pick-ups than green and yellow taxi drivers.
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Taxi drivers versus ride hailing apps — a drama that's played out in major cities around the world.
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"I've been doing this survey for ten years, asking taxi drivers about the weather," she told me.
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Baku's taxi-drivers now grumble about rising prices and the money being wasted on the Grand Prix.
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Kyi Lin was caught at the scene moments after Ko Ni's killing when taxi drivers tackled him.
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When longstanding professions like taxi drivers and truckers get "disrupted," it's seen as the march of progress.
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Taxi drivers may pretend the meter is broken, or do a few extra laps to overcharge travelers.
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Taxi drivers in Hungary have demanded that Uber be outlawed and that its smartphone app be blocked.
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In Manchester, it was Muslim doctors and taxi drivers that rushed to the aid of the victims.
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The company says its keeping the fee low to discourage people from becoming full-time taxi drivers.
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Some taxi drivers in China have exercised a rather more extreme form of protest against leasing rules.
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Taxi drivers, who are required to be local residents, feel threatened and have flexed their political muscle.
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Taxi drivers have protested against the company for not following the same rules as the taxi industry.
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After a spate of suicides revealed the financial plight of taxi drivers, officials blamed Uber and Lyft.
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He's a skittish reporter; more content to chat with taxi drivers than squeeze stories from his subjects.
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That could cause mass unemployment for taxi drivers and greatly reduce car sales, potentially hurting the economy.
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After seven years, the ride is officially coming to an end for the NYC Taxi Drivers calendar.
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Car pools and taxi drivers got black people to work during the 381-day Montgomery bus boycott.
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It grew like a weed — as all kinds of people became taxi drivers in their spare time.
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Mothers cooked meals for the community, taxi drivers shuttled pro-democracy rebels wherever they needed to go.
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In 2016, the country was paralyzed by strikes of pilots, train drivers, taxi drivers and garbage collectors.
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So too could some taxi drivers, translators and interpreters, and plenty of others, according to The Chronicle.
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One Honolulu cab company said the market is already saturated and taxi drivers are losing their jobs.
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The authorities have detained more than 150 people, including taxi drivers, teachers, construction workers and student activists.
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The hospital partnered with Dominican taxi drivers to make them aware of the importance of health care.
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In France, two Uber executives were arrested in 2015 after a nationwide strike by that country's taxi drivers.
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Madrid taxi drivers want their city to adopt ride-haling service regulations similar to those passed in Barcelona.
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As in other markets, these services in Kenya initially faced opposition and sometimes hostility from other taxi drivers.
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A mob of 250 taxi drivers in Malaysia marched down the street protestingUber and Grab in November 2015.
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Taxi drivers bused into Brasilia by unions said Uber's lower fares had cut their income by almost half.
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Instead, it meandered through the city, zooming in on the lives of store clerks, doormen, and taxi drivers.
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To offset rising costs, some merchants—from taxi-drivers to utilities—now charge customers for paying with cards.
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At one point, Wapnick was estimated to have prepared taxes for 13% of New York City's taxi drivers.
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In Nova Iguaçu, a city that borders Duque de Caxias, militiamen recently started extorting money from taxi drivers.
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A representative of the ride-hailing services said some taxi drivers had attacked its members during the strike.
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As in other markets, Uber drivers in Kenya initially faced opposition and sometimes hostility from other taxi drivers.
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Taxi drivers, who often wear white gloves, sometimes get out to bow when they drop off a passenger.
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Taxi drivers taking the injured to hospital & visitors to safety in the city after terrorist attack #ManchesterArena pic.twitter.
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But whether this'll alleviate any tensions between taxi drivers and those stupid redcoats—oh wait, wrong war.[Reuters]
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In 2015, taxi drivers clashed violently with police in Paris as part of a nationwide protest against Uber.
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Some taxi drivers have filed for bankruptcy, while others have reportedly committed suicide after falling deep into debt.
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So do the motorcycle-taxi drivers, hustling for rides; or the countless small shopkeepers, stocking near-identical goods.
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"I saw it happen with the taxi drivers .. they make money out of it," the U.N. expert said.
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In Izmir, taxi drivers face a stiff fine or a prison sentence for taking migrants to the coast.
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Valls, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, and other officials will meet with a delegation of taxi drivers Tuesday afternoon.
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Proposals have been floated to make Mandarin a requirement for local taxi drivers, though these were ultimately rejected.
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It has regularly dealt with protests from local taxi drivers — which have sometimes turned violent — and skeptical regulators.
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Taxi drivers, meanwhile, were reportedly asked to not pick people up from the Karlsplatz square in the city.
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Taxi drivers in China have held mass protests over ride-hailing apps, which they say are unfair competition.
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" The judge said he didn't see much difference between Uber drivers and "pirate taxi drivers in the past.
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Taxi drivers, who had transferred thousands of passengers to isolated departure points, hung around the square looking morose.
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Uber is the scourge of taxi drivers worldwide, but sometimes the two can pull in the same direction.
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Taxi drivers didn't like to wait for passengers in a neighborhood where fewer people could afford a ride.
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Uber has since shut down the service after the government banned it under pressure from licensed taxi drivers.
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Buddhist toughs threatened taxi drivers and merchants from Kargil, telling them they weren't allowed to work in Leh.
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" Here is Part 2: "As Thousands of Taxi Drivers Were Trapped in Loans, Top Officials Counted the Money.
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The Council also said that the lack of masks and gloves for bus and taxi drivers was serious.
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For licensed taxi drivers, the new minimum represents a considerable reduction from the previous requirement of 150 hours.
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This cap, rightly or wrongly, created a supply and demand system favoring medallion holders and the taxi drivers.
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It had, supposedly, undercut prices for non-Uber taxis just as protesting taxi drivers went back to work.
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The case concerns the low-cost UberPOP service, which has prompted outrage among taxi drivers in the country.
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Taxi drivers happily take them off vendors' hands to put the branches on the hood of their cars.
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In Christchurch, their ranks include students at local universities, taxi drivers, professionals, nurses — and imams like Lateef Alabi.
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Beeping is a constant, and the occasional argument breaks out between car drivers, taxi drivers, cyclists, or pedestrians.
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Want to get your Travis Bickle on and and sip chai with taxi drivers at a Punjabi deli?
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Taxi drivers in New York went on strike on Saturday night, refusing to pick up any passengers from JFK.
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The fines date back to a raid in August 2015, reportedly carried out following complaints from licensed taxi drivers.
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But it says in the FAQ that only taxi drivers can cruise and wait for clients in the streets.
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Only taxi drivers can stop near a train station or airport and wait for a new client for example.
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Pishevar happened to be in Paris in June 2015, when taxi drivers took to the streets to protest Uber.
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In the film we have this moment when testing resumes, and a wave of suicides of taxi drivers follow.
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The European Court of Justice ruled after a complaint brought by an association of professional taxi drivers in Spain.
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The self-driving/car-sharing combo might do great things for car owners, but it might ruin taxi drivers.
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Yet Uber also seems to be having some success in winning over taxi-drivers, mainly by signing them up.
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The ride-hailing services reported a significant number of attacks against their members by taxi drivers during the strike.
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"Uber is the school bully finally going to the headmaster," cheers Steve McNamara of the Licensed Taxi Drivers' Association.
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Rich countries typically allow sole traders to pay income rather than business taxes—think of taxi drivers and handymen.
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Earlier this year, the Indonesian government threatened to prohibit app-based transport after violent protests by traditional taxi drivers.
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A union of taxi drivers has taken Uber to court, asking the authorities to block access to its app.
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It's not clear how much blame Uber deserves for these assaults — after all, taxi drivers commit assault as well.
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Those who were not would either become unemployed or "underground taxi" drivers if the rules were adopted, it said.
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"They should have stood in solidarity with the taxi drivers and immigrants," New York Senator Michael Gianaris told Recode.
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Primarily, the millions of professional truck and taxi drivers around the world who may be shoved out of work.
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But for Angelenos who couldn't convince taxi drivers to take them home safely, this is a pretty good start.
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Through at least the next decade, human truck drivers, bus drivers and taxi drivers will remain in strong demand.
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Local "boda boda" (motorbike taxi) drivers told CNN they had been ferrying people to their local stations for free.
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So low have Uber and other ride-hailing companies laid New York's once proudly rude fleet of taxi drivers.
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But we've come to a point where neither the Uber drivers nor the taxi drivers have a stable income.
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Got an angry mob of local government officials, taxi drivers and hotel operators trying to shut down your business?
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Assume they drive just half of the historical average for traditional U.S. taxi drivers of 70,000 miles a year.
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The company is leveraging the fact that rules aren't as strict for ride-hailing drivers as for taxi drivers.
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Uber's battle was never with the taxi drivers—making them irrelevant was simply a byproduct of the end-goal.
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"Even the taxi drivers on base know us for being the 'USS Bread and Water,'" one survey respondent said.
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If French taxi drivers are outraged by competition from Uber, what will they do when self-driving cars arrive?
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The fastest-growing job category is taxi drivers and chauffeurs, due to ride-hailing platforms like Uber and Lyft.
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But the company's arrival also prompted street protests from taxi-drivers, lawsuits from regulators, and accusations of tax avoidance.
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The move came after months of protests by taxi drivers and bans on some Uber services in other countries.
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On the election trail, Le Pen has leapt to defend traditional professionals such as taxi drivers from the newcomers.
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For this work, he surreptitiously recorded conversations with taxi drivers en route to politically charged sites around the city.
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That is when new rules went into effect eliminating the requirement that taxi drivers take an English proficiency exam.
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But the shift has prompted concerns over whether communication between taxi drivers and passengers could become even more difficult.
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By allowing non-English speakers as taxi drivers, New York City is putting its taxi fleet at a disadvantage.
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Uber allegedly impersonated riders, drivers, taxi drivers, and protesters to get trade secrets about competitors and understand the opposition.
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Under the spotlight of suspicion, thousands of DNA samples were taken, many of which were from licenced taxi drivers.
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But now medallions, which ride-hailing services don't require, are far less valuable, putting several taxi drivers in debt.
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Yet even as taxi drivers feel the sting of competition, many others are joining the ranks of Uber drivers.
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Uber has since shut down the service after the French government banned it under pressure from licensed taxi drivers.
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In the Moscow airport, taxi drivers pester the recent arrivals, trying to sell their services, shouting and following travelers.
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This past spring, the Nevada state legislature legalized Uber and Lyft, but many taxi drivers and operators remain skeptical.
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Given that taxi drivers in New York earn below-average incomes, that wouldn't have been such a bad outcome.
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Andrew M. Cuomo was seeking federal disaster assistance that would provide unemployment benefits to contract workers, including taxi drivers.
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Ride-hail drivers now pick up more passengers in a month than taxi drivers ever have in a month.
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" The GMB, a union whose members include taxi drivers and Uber drivers, praised a decision for "fairness and safety.
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A group of taxi drivers facing strained family relationships, romantic woes, violence and economic ills in their gentrifying neighborhood.
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For one, unlike taxi drivers, Uber drivers use their own vehicles, which typically don't include your classic plexiglass divider.
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Prostitutes were integrated into society and given the opportunity to find jobs as taxi drivers, educators or skilled workers.
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How reckless loans devastated a generation of taxi drivers Mohammed Hoque earned about $30,21990 a year driving a taxi.
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The shortage is also impacting others using modern cars such as taxi drivers, tourists and workers at joint ventures.
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According to taxi drivers who witnessed the attack, the gunman shouted, "You can't act like that," before opening fire.
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Taxi drivers in Hunan are worried about a surge in prices once the government frees them, the paper said.
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Mr. Porter said that Uber in Lebanon used only taxi drivers with commercial licenses, which require government background checks.
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For all their outrage, however, taxi drivers have struggled to halt the growth of ride-hailing apps in Spain.
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Emily Jacir's "Untitled (servees)" (22017) uses the voices of ride-sharing taxi drivers calling out their intended destinations from Jerusalem.
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The New York Taxi Workers Alliance, which represents taxi drivers, did not respond to requests for comment on the proposal.
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The rise of Uber has caused tensions to flare between the city's taxi drivers and the newcomers behind the wheel.
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Taxi drivers in Athens staged an anti-Uber strike last month to protest the continued presence of non-professional drivers.
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In Kigali, Rwanda's spotlessly clean capital, taxi drivers point out patches of neat grass where slums have been torn up.
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In July, the team was able to raise $16,000 from a Kickstarter campaign and began connecting designers with taxi drivers.
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Desai told Motherboard that eight New York City taxi drivers committed suicide in 2018, which was devastating for the community.
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Uber France suspended the low-cost service last year after the government banned it under pressure from licensed taxi drivers.
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Protests by taxi drivers against the smartphone app turned violent in 2015 when Paris cabbies overturned cars and burned tyres.
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Taxi drivers - some hailing from Britain, Spain and France - blocked the Schuman roundabout outside European Union institutions and lit flares.
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It says that it is supplying the taxi drivers with an introduction service but that proposition suffers from two deficiencies.
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Taxi drivers are just one contingent of the city that enjoys a financial windfall when Time Warp rolls into town.
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Taxi drivers refused to pick people up from the airport in solidarity with those who were detained after Trump's order.
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It started with taxi-hailing, not chauffeur-driven cars, which helped it win over grumpy taxi drivers and local politicians.
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Consider this: 86,000 or so New Yorkers already commute on two wheels daily, dodging groggy pedestrians and pushy taxi drivers.
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"Time equals money when taxi drivers are working," said Ole Gudbrann Hempel, head of Fortum's public charging network in Norway.
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Chicago limits taxi drivers to 225 hours of driving; in Los Angeles, for-hire drivers are capped at 2300 hours.
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"We are hardworking people," said Osman Chowdhury, a taxi driver and member of the United Taxi Drivers Association (NYC) Inc.
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He got fined for forgetting to wear the yellow smock and cap that Rome taxi drivers once had to wear.
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What that means is we're getting a whole new influx of users, and taxi drivers are getting proportionally more rides.
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And agencies at every level of government did little to help taxi drivers as they became crushed under overwhelming debt.
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"I dreamed a dream in times gone by," he warbled with committed agony, as bemused Parisian taxi drivers flew past.
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In all, I met 200 taxi drivers, including several I interviewed through translators because they did not speak English fluently.
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Governments in Quebec and Australia have compensated or are proposing compensating taxi drivers for the lost value of such licenses.
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It can connect you to everyone you meet, including taxi drivers, who'd write to me in English using translation apps.
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My respect for the taxi drivers who negotiate near-death experiences daily only grew as Bassam wove his way through.
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Zagreb, the Croatian capital, is the latest major European city where taxi drivers blocked streets demanding that Uber be banned.
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Taxi drivers are struggling to keep up with the industry disruption, and some feel the cards are stacked against them.
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There has also been regulatory uncertainty and protests by taxi drivers against online apps that have at times become violent.
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Wednesday's protest followed violent clashes between taxi drivers and police on Monday that led to the arrest of 95 people.
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At the same time, companies like UPS and YRC Worldwide should prove to be more formidable rivals than taxi drivers.
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The court was responding to an action by taxi drivers who say the ride-hailing service represents unfair competition. 93.
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This is not the first time taxi drivers have tried to beat Uber and its ilk at their own game.
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Last month, hundreds of taxi drivers marched through Athens protesting the app, with some attacking cars they believed were UberX vehicles.
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There have been several large protests by taxi drivers in the region against ride-hailing apps in the past 12 months.
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The taxi drivers, once swarming under the evening sun, had dwindled to a quiet few, and the baggage carousels were still.
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Lyft launched its service in Austin in 2014 but operated outside the rules applied to taxi drivers, such as fingerprint checks.
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Two men from Guinea sat in the third row and learned they were both named Mamadou Alpha Diallo, both taxi drivers.
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But the Borla taxi drivers typically dump the waste by the side of the road, since the disposal site is far.
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Taxi drivers have staged high-profile protests against Uber in France, Britain, Portugal, Spain and many other European countries since 2014.
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But outside the compound, like other women, she is reliant on a secret network of male taxi drivers to get around.
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Underemployment, where it's commonplace to find taxi drivers with master's degrees, is one of the problems to which Karim was referring.
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Boomers are also more likely to show their generosity to salon and spa workers, taxi drivers, parking attendants and hotel workers.
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Hordes of English-speaking volunteers have been recruited; taxi drivers have been encouraged to brush up on their language skills, too.
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This has all led to clashes not only with local transportation authorities but also with vocal groups of local taxi drivers.
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Many reckon that banks, burdened with old IT and ever-emptier branches, will suffer the fate of retailers and taxi drivers.
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Revenue collection was farmed out to middlemen who beat money out of taxi drivers, handing only a fraction to public coffers.
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Six taxi drivers have committed suicide in the last six months, a grim reminder of the human costs of technological disruption.
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In response to the booming growth in Uber and Lyft, taxi drivers have staged protests and lobbied elected officials for relief.
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He lacks a core electorate, but managed to mobilise the urban lower-middle class—traders, taxi-drivers, craftsmen—who rarely vote.
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At the same time, the likes of UPS and YRC Worldwide should prove to be more formidable rivals than taxi drivers.
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Earlier today, thousands of taxi drivers blocked the roads to protest against Uber, Chauffeur-Privé, Heetch and other urban transportation companies.
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Taxi drivers aren't as keen to speak to the 14-year political dominance of the wiry figure who oversaw Rwanda's transformation.
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Truck drivers, more so than bus or taxi drivers, will see the bulk of that job loss, according to the report.
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Chilean taxi drivers demonstrate along Alameda Avenue against US on-demand ride service giant Uber, in Santiago, on July 10, 2017.
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Taxi drivers, by comparison, deal with a great deal more risk than journalists do, both in aggregate deaths and per capita.
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Some driver advocates say Muslims from many countries make up as much as one-third of New York City's taxi drivers.
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Scientists have found that the posterior hippocampus, an area of the brain important for memory, is larger in London taxi drivers.
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Some taxi drivers refused to switch on their meters and demanded fares of 50 pounds for trips that usually cost seven.
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The focus is on taxi drivers and taxi operator firms because peer-to-peer ride services are not legal in Japan.
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For years, taxi drivers and their allies in government have gone after what they considered an existential threat to their livelihoods.
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The idea that we're going to train taxi drivers in New York City to be data scientists: I'm not buying it.
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Uber has generated controversy in many countries, facing protests from traditional taxi drivers, lawsuits from its own drivers and regulatory bans.
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The deaths sparked protests among New York taxi drivers, who called for new laws to protect them against ride-sharing companies.
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They also argue that it would give taxi drivers who have seen their incomes plummet in recent years a brief respite.
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The donors, many of them taxi drivers and small shop owners, operate largely in cash and raised nearly $5,000 that night.
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And she urged that state unemployment benefits be extended to taxi drivers, who are considered independent contractors and do not qualify.
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In Victoria, taxi drivers staged protests in 2017 that caused peak-hour chaos as the government moved to abolish taxi licenses.
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From CEOs to engineers, astronauts, artists, and taxi drivers, we have firmly established our roots in all facets of this country.
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On the occasions where taxi drivers asked where my husband was, I'd simply reply that he was arriving the next day.
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However, Uber and Lyft drivers may be more likely to face assault than taxi drivers for a few reasons, Gurley reports.
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And even as Uber said it was not responding to the move by taxi drivers, some came to the company's defense.
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Taxi drivers also paralyzed traffic in Madrid last summer, and the incoming Socialist national government promised new legislation on ride hailing.
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That's right – the 2017 NYC Taxi Drivers Calendar is here, featuring photos of real New York cab drivers satirizing pin-up photoshoots.
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Gerald Gouriet, a lawyer representing the Licensed Taxi Drivers' Association, said that an "Uber in sheep's clothing" had appeared before the court.
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"The best way to support taxi drivers and level the playing field is to extend the same exemption to them," he said.
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Behind the shops, a gaggle of motorbike taxi drivers in bright orange vests rest in the shade waiting for their next fare.
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According to El Pais, taxi drivers have claimed that other drivers from other cities are coming to Madrid to join the protests.
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More than 6,000 taxi drivers and car-hire operators are suing Uber in Australia, signing on to a major class action lawsuit.
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RFA, an American news outlet, reported that during the protest in Zhenjiang some taxi drivers ferried old soldiers around free of charge.
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Taxi drivers at the airport grouse about new charges: 2,000 pounds a month for a permit, plus parking fees that have quadrupled.
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The company later suspended its services in Spain, but returned to the country in 2016 after agreeing to hire licensed taxi drivers.
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A protester waves a flag of the "Plataforma Caracol" taxi association during a strike by taxi drivers in Barcelona on July 25.
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Uber's notification regarding surge pricing went out at 7:36 Eastern Time, after the end of the taxi drivers' announced work stoppage.
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A Slovak court ordered Uber to suspend its operations in March 2018 amid taxi drivers' protests that the service represented unfair competition.
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Dozens of German taxi drivers stood outside the Berlin convention center today waving signs scrawled with "Uber go Home," according to Reuters.
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Although there have been horrific instances of alleged assault carried out by male Uber and taxi drivers, they are not the norm.
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It's signed up 3,2.53 private hire taxi drivers by simply acquiring a taxi company which already holds a licence, City Drive Services.
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Some questioned whether it was legal for municipal authorities to effectively ban people from working as taxi drivers based upon their residency.
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Along with counterparts in many other European countries, Spain's taxi drivers say that ride-hailing apps have made it impossible to compete.
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The city's licensed taxi drivers have put pressure on officials to regulate Uber more heavily — and reveled in the city's new decision.
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Taxi drivers say Uber is permitted to unfairly do business without adhering to the thick list of city rules governing their work.
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It now offers rides with licensed taxi drivers in Berlin and Munich but is a small player in the country's taxi market.
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The stoppage coincides with legal action taken by local app Beat against the head of the taxi drivers union for alleged defamation.
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In neighbouring countries such as Colombia and Costa Rica, taxi drivers have attacked ride-sharing app drivers, their cars, and even passengers.
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Others nearby were also offering rides to those struggling to get home, and taxi drivers also reportedly gave free lifts to concertgoers.
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But mytaxi focuses on metered taxis, while Uber relies on unmetered cars and drivers who are not formally registered as taxi drivers.
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The New York Taxi Workers Alliance, an 18,000-member union representing the city's taxi drivers, hailed the council's vote as a victory.
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The suspected shooter - named by police as Kyi Linn, 53 - was arrested after a group of taxi drivers chased the him down.
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The measure, which passed in June, came after months of protests by taxi drivers against Uber in Budapest and other European cities.
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The big picture: Truck drivers and taxi drivers are often singled out as the most likely to be displaced by autonomous vehicles.
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The figures also showed that 122 allegations of rape and sexual assault were reported against other London taxi drivers, including black cabs.
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Even taxi drivers had strong opinions: "I like it because it's by a woman and because I like science fiction," one said.
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Promise made: In 2012 Boris also promised to set up a "cabbies' cabinet" to deal with the concerns of London taxi drivers.
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The National Front candidate said she did not condone incidents in which taxi drivers have set upon Uber drivers and their passengers.
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Darryl Whiting, 183, a personal trainer who lives in the Bronx, said he had no idea taxi drivers' language skills were tested.
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Back then, getting south of the Holland Tunnel was for taxi drivers an endeavor somewhat akin to passing through the Bermuda Triangle.
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JapanTaxi, meanwhile, claims four million downloads and 60,000 taxis — or around one-quarter of all taxi drivers in Japan — on its platform.
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Taxi drivers and hotel workers I spoke with sounded dismayed, commonly using the word "sad" to describe the state of their city.
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Many taxi drivers said their financial worries were compounded by fears of catching the virus and passing it on to their families.
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"The education here doesn't get you anything — this country is full of doctors and engineers who work as taxi drivers," Zavala said.
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Other taxi drivers said Mr. Bokrezion was the kind of friend who called when they were on vacation, just to check in.
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In 2013, the company introduced a version of its car service and it grew fast, threatening Rome's taxi drivers, who staged strikes.
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Plus, it's likely that more women drive for Uber than work as taxi drivers, which might heighten the likelihood of driver assault.
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Taxi drivers, who are represented by the union, pay for gas out of pocket; other protesters voiced alarm at ballooning consumer prices.
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But the police in several cities have also cited disgruntled rickshaw and taxi drivers upset that bike-sharing has sapped their business.
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The company, founded in 2012, initially focused on working with taxi drivers and was first called 99Taxis, providing an alternative to Uber.
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Earlier this year, taxi drivers' protests turned violent in the Indonesian capital when they called for ride-hailing apps to be banned.
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Of last year's cases, three led to arrests, but 10 — including two allegedly by taxi drivers on young female passengers — remain unsolved.
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Like Uber or Lyft, its drivers are not actual taxi drivers however; the company is called Txfy in France to avoid confusion.
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The city, on occasion, would have the support of Uber and Lyft drivers, but fairly often had the backing of taxi drivers.
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On Saturday night, New York taxi drivers announced a boycott of John F. Kennedy Airport to protest Donald Trump's controversial immigration order.
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In August, Mumbai taxi drivers reportedly decided to stop industrial action in favor of creating their own app to compete with Uber.
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Many took that to mean the company was attempting to profit off the backs of taxi drivers by making its rides cheaper.
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Because Uber is creating less of a demand for yellow taxi drivers, a group of them have turned to a side job: modeling.
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There are short documentaries devoted to one of the last remaining skywriting families, female taxi drivers in New Delhi, Civil Rights leader Rev.
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Hong Kong (CNN Business)Japan's taxi drivers will no longer have to remove their white gloves to accept rides booked on Didi Chuxing.
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Meanwhile the number of jobs that rely on the industry — including taxi drivers, hotel staff and caterers — has fallen from 2.13,800 to 330,400.
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On weekends they also serve up sopa de mondongo, a traditional tripe soup that's more popular with the hardened stomachs of taxi drivers.
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RIDE-HAILING services such as Uber and Lyft have transformed America's cities, breaking the monopoly of taxi drivers over the private-hire business.
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Taxi drivers, hair stylists, jewelry store owners, bartenders, maids, and tour guides are all now wondering where their next paycheck will come from.
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The labyrinth is so dense, the roads so narrow, that most taxi drivers refuse to enter, dropping you off on its outer edge.
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Last summer, a French anti-Uber protest turned became a guerrilla warfare as taxi drivers were protesting against Uber's illegal competition with UberPOP.
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Instead of lobbying the government or going to the courts, taxi-drivers in some African cities have taken matters into their own hands.
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More taxi drivers can flood on to the streets in response to a price rise, but Disney will struggle to offer more park.
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Meister says the expansion would allow taxi drivers to have a second source of income, but it isn't sitting well with taxi unions.
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Behind him stand a few traffic police and a contingent of semi-formally dressed taxi drivers donning sunglasses and gesticulating to the police.
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Cielo is aiming its smartphone device at small merchants and service providers such as taxi drivers, a market dominated by PagSeguro Digital Ltda.
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Its app can summon a car in moments in more than 425 cities around the world, to the fury of taxi drivers everywhere.
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In Germany, Uber pulled out of three cities after new rules would require its drivers to obtain the same licenses as taxi drivers.
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The fastest-growing category was taxi drivers and chauffeurs, largely due to increased ride-hailing drivers working for companies like Uber and Lyft.
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Associations of taxi drivers have staged high-profile protests against Uber in France, Britain, Portugal, Spain and many other European countries since 2014.
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Officials told Reuters that a significant number of taxi drivers and motor bike riders were also injured as they trafficked the busy road.
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Critics on social media accused the ride-hailing company in January of undercutting taxi drivers protesting a controversial immigration policy enacted by Trump.
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Volkswagen led an $80 million investment in Gett, a ride-hailing platform that connects riders to taxi drivers and other vetted transportation providers.
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In the same interview, Ospina also criticized the former VP's daughter for using what taxi drivers in Colombia have labelled an illegal service.
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"Taxi drivers have always faced problems of franchise charges and competition from illegal cabs," Geoffrey Crothall, spokesperson for China Labor Bulletin, told Motherboard.
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The taxi drivers' protest adds to the dilemma of South Korea's labour-friendly government, after unemployment hit an eight-year-high in August.
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There were taxi drivers and bodega store clerks in the Bronx and Manhattan and Queens asserting their Americanness, sometimes out of self-protection.
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Promise made: In 2012 Johnson also promised to set up a "cabbies&apos cabinet" to deal with the concerns of London taxi drivers.
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But Ansari explains to her that the man is using the stereotype that Indian people are taxi drivers to make fun of him.
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Taxi drivers, for example, are service workers who are likely to lose their jobs to self-driving cars within the next 15 years.
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Lifeline for taxi drivers: New York officials plan to investigate the city's role in a crisis that left thousands of cabbies in debt.
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On Tuesday, Brian Rosenthal told us about the taxi industry's reckless loan practices that devastated a generation of New York City taxi drivers.
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Hit the brakes: A coalition of taxi drivers and owners filed suit to overturn the surcharge, saying that yellow cabs should be exempted.
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People accused the company of trying to profit off the backs of the taxi drivers by taking advantage of the demand for rides.
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Many of them are taxi drivers and hotel maids, he said, and they have tended, over the years, to keep a low profile.
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"Taxi drivers will drive all day, restaurant workers will serve and prep food all day, retail workers will go to work," she wrote.
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None of them had jobs; they were dependent on husbands or male relatives who worked in bodegas, as taxi-drivers, or as janitors.
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The New York taxi drivers' union, whose membership of 19,000 is largely Muslim, joined a protest at Kennedy International Airport on Friday night.
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We still encountered plenty of confusion, such as taxi drivers taking us to the wrong destination, or misunderstanding the rules at tourist sites.
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One benefit of Caldwell's is that it would allow individuals with out of state driver's licenses to be riding hailing or taxi drivers.
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TfL, for its part, comes under pressure from the Licensed Taxi Drivers' Association (LTDA) to rein in Uber and other ride-hailing firms.
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Black leaders organized carpools, black taxi drivers lowered their fairs, and people walked to work instead of using the buses during the boycott.
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Restaurants and hotels now sit empty, flights have been slashed and taxi drivers and hourly workers face deep pay cuts and potential layoffs.
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It's not smart city design to take away the important work — both visible and invisible — that bus, truck, train, and taxi drivers do.
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Balda was abducted but quickly escaped harm after nearby taxi drivers alerted police, who stopped the vehicle in which he was being taken away.
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Chandar and his colleagues suggest this is because riders have to tip their taxi drivers to their faces, as they do waitstaff and baristas.
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Many older Chinese display posters of him in their homes, and taxi drivers carry his picture as an amulet to ward off bad luck.
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Uber has triggered similar protests by taxi drivers from London to New Delhi and led to legal disputes in a number of European countries.
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Taipei taxi drivers, representatives of Uber, members of the government, business leaders, trade unions, taxi users, Uber services, all came to share their views.
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Slovakia has since passed legislation that allows Uber to operate legally if its drivers and cars meet requirements that professional taxi drivers must meet.
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From police officers and rescue workers to waiters and bartenders to Uber and taxi drivers, we've been welcomed with open arms everywhere we've been.
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Stores open for long hours and even on Sundays; taxi-drivers, says Craig Donaldson, the chief executive, park outside and deposit the day's fares.
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THE taxi drivers of London are famous for their black cabs, pricey fares and outspoken political commentary provided to passengers at no extra charge.
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I haven't been in a taxi for quite a long time, but I used to spend many an hour chatting away to taxi drivers.
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This time, taxi drivers burned tires on the ring road around Paris, blocking cars until firemen could stop the fire and remove the tires.
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With UberPOP, everybody could become an Uber driver — taxi drivers saw the service as unfair competition as they have to get a special license.
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Over 10,000 taxi drivers in Indonesia's capital are expected to gather in a massive protest against ride-hailing apps Uber and Grab on Tuesday.
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Uber, which operates a licensed service in the Greek capital, has faced opposition from local taxi drivers who accuse it of taking their business.
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From 2012 to 2014, about 23% of immigrants with a college degree were working low-skilled jobs as dishwashers, security guards and taxi drivers.
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Grab said in an announcement that it is working with "a small group" of taxi drivers initially, with a view to expanding the pool.
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Thousands of taxi drivers are expected to participate in demonstrations across Paris today, disrupting traffic to and from the French capital's two major airports.
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Strikes held in January and June of last year erupted in violence, as taxi drivers set cars on fire and clashed with Uber chauffeurs.
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More than 1,000 people, including taxi drivers and members of Brisbane's Indian community, paid their respects to Alisher at a memorial on the weekend.
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Thousands of taxi drivers took to the streets around Costa Rica's capital, San Jose, to protest the continued operation of Uber in the country.
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Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, came to a standstill when taxi drivers and public-transport workers demonstrated against ride-hailing apps, such as Uber.
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Taxi drivers have spent the last few years begging local governments around the world to put an end to the threat of unregulated ridesharing.
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Yet policymakers have not previously sought to allow taxi drivers to unionize in order to protect the public safety, or for any other reason.
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Uber did not bring contractor status to its industry: in 2009, the year the firm was founded, 88% of taxi drivers were already contractors.
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This move is a perfect example of state apparatus being utilized by industry cartels, in this case the London taxi drivers, to constrain innovation.
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The taxi drivers' protest worsens the dilemma of South Korea's labor-friendly government, grappling with unemployment that hit an eight-year high in August.
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Studies conducted in 2001, 2006 and 2013 all reported serious shortages in taxi supply because of permit caps originally designed to benefit taxi drivers.
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Mr. Bittarelli was also upset that Roman taxi drivers are often maligned as a privileged lobby that fights things like the liberalization of licenses.
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Gordon explains that word about the taxis has spread quickly, with many taxi drivers coming to the organization to request makeovers of their vehicles.
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In a statement announcing the VTC service suspension yesterday and condemning the violence, Unauto VTC says the taxi drivers were protesting that court decision.
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By contrast, Uber has faced opposition from local taxi drivers and was forced to discontinue a ride-hailing service using private cars in 2015.
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At one junction, where motorcycle taxi drivers sat idle and shops were shut, people insisted that the only acceptable outcome was an Odinga presidency.
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Madrid: Taxi drivers who have been protesting Uber and other ride-hailing companies in the Spanish capital clashed with police officers, leaving many injured.
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In the past, various state governments in Australia have sought to deregulate the taxi industry and provide traditional taxi drivers some sort of compensation.
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Norton MezvinskyNew York To the Editor: The corrupt practices outlined in this valuable exposé have created a new genre of poverty among taxi drivers.
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In South Korea, Uber has faced opposition from taxi drivers and was forced to discontinue a ride-hailing service using private cars in 2015.
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In South Korea, Uber has faced opposition from taxi drivers and was forced to discontinue a ride-hailing service using private cars in 2015.
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The GMB (a union that represents black cab taxi drivers) hired the law firm Leigh Day to campaign to drive Uber out of business.
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The Licensed Taxi Drivers' Association will be an interested party in the case, giving it access to documents and meaning they could make submissions.
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Fleeing to a neighboring country brought little relief: They continued to experience violence and victimization by the police, employers, neighbors and even taxi drivers.
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This past summer, the agency ruled that Uber and taxi drivers can drive for only 12 hour shifts with a mandated 8-hour break.
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Street food is a rare egalitarian aspect of life in the city, one that is equally beloved by billionaire property tycoons and taxi drivers.
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When in fact, they really, honestly did not do anything to profit of the backs of these taxi drivers, which was the claim originally.
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To some, the move appeared to undercut the protesting taxi drivers – many of whom are Muslim and immigrants – by keeping prices stable to entice riders.
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Protests sprang up all over, and New York City taxi drivers went on a one-hour work stoppage at JFK Airport to protest the ban.
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German broadcaster Deutsche Welle reported that the proclamation followed intense protests by Istanbul taxi drivers who claim Uber is operating in violation of Turkish law.
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Meanwhile, Indonesia's transportation minister has officially called for these services to be banned in the country, after taxi drivers staged a large protest on Monday.
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"The Mayor has made the right call not to relicense Uber," Steve McNamara, General Secretary of the Licensed Taxi Drivers' Association said in a statement.
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"Today is a sad day for our industry," Fernando Mateo, a spokesperson for the New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers, said in a statement.
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Following in the path of other taxi apps that have added mobile wallets, its 50,000 taxi drivers will serve as the initial users of Tpaga.
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He tracked the bike to a Casablanca neighborhood that was in such bad shape that the Moroccan taxi drivers were hesitant to bring him there.
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Research shows that the arrival of Uber in American cities leads on average to a 50% surge in the number of self-employed taxi-drivers.
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With Uber and Lyft, the losers were taxi drivers, chained to the dwindling revenue their cabs created while stuck paying off insanely expensive taxi medallions.
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I missed the bloodbath but saw plenty of the lead-up and spent several days chatting with taxi drivers and shop keepers about their celebrations.
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Additionally, taxi drivers are required to have a license, which limits the number of available drivers, making it harder for riders to find a cab.
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Taxi drivers are more 20 times more likely to be murdered on the job than other workers, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
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Grab entered Singapore five years ago with minimal resources and the goal of enabling all taxi drivers to earn a better living using our platform.
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He told us the taxi drivers didn't pick us up since we were only one block from our hotel, so it wasn't worth their time!
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Many taxi drivers have to work to pay off the daily or weekly rental costs of the yellow cab before they can make any income.
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Desai told Motherboard that taxi drivers, for instance, are sometimes the victims of hate crimes and are at a high risk of being in poverty.
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You've given examples in the past of ways that people could resist "inevitable" technological progress, like taxi drivers making salt traps for self-driving cars.
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Hundreds of taxi drivers also blocked traffic around airports and train stations in Lille and Toulouse on Tuesday, and they paralyzed traffic in central Marseille.
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She had pulled up in front of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in Manhattan looking for a fare but was cut off by other taxi drivers.
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However, since 2000, motorcycle taxi drivers working for Grab and Go-Jek in Jakarta have held protest rallies calling for higher fares and better conditions.
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For many taxi drivers, this influx of rideshares and cabs has indeed drowned out the livelihoods that they were sometimes working to build for years.
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Lawmakers in Buenos Aires have largely sided with taxi drivers, who complain Uber charges artificially low fares while avoiding all the overhead born by cabbies.
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Didi understood the local culture, integrated better with social-media platforms and got taxi drivers onside by incorporating them into its app from the beginning.
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The Seattle City Council recently passed a first-in-nation local ordinance that seeks to allow ridesharing and taxi drivers to unionize and collectively bargain.
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Bains observed that innovations like the Uber and Lyft ride-sharing services have generated interest from consumers, but have disrupted incumbent players like taxi drivers.
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A total of 3,268 people received the vaccine, known as rVSVDG-ZEBOV-GP, including traditional healers, those responsible for burying bodies, and even taxi drivers.
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The South Korean government last September started offering incentives for taxi firms to launch diesel vehicles, looking to provide more fuel options for taxi drivers.
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Initially, Ola is initially using registered and "trained" motorbike taxi drivers, but it plans to open the service up for others in the near future.
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In his recent GQ cover story, he discussed it with the same languid poeticism he applies to songs about novocaine and crying at taxi drivers.
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Like taxi drivers around the world, he planned to spend this day waiting for customers, and navigating through traffic when he could find a fare.
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The officials were also mentioned as citing local regulations already in place that require taxi drivers to be residents of the city where they work.
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Further hearings will take place next week to decide whether the GMB trade union and the London Taxi Drivers' Association can participate in the case.
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You can find local restaurants through your hotel's concierge, by asking taxi drivers or other locals and even by searching sites like TripAdvisor or Yelp.
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In Italy, in contrast, taxi drivers — already struggling on hourly wages undercut by the rise of ride-hailing services — scour for fares amid the outbreak.
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At Kennedy Airport, taxi drivers are stuck in a central holding area for hours before finally being dispatched to pick up passengers at the terminals.
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The rise of Uber and other similar companies has also caused tensions to flare between the city's taxi drivers and the newcomers behind the wheel.
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Carey Dean Moore, who faces the death penalty next week for killing two taxi drivers in Omaha in 1979, has stopped fighting his looming execution.
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The crackdown followed protests against Uber and similar services by taxi drivers who contended the services received an unfair advantage due to lack of regulation.
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The lack of English extends to signage, tourist attractions, hotels, taxi drivers, and every other part of the culture a tourist is likely to encounter.
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The city's life went on around Mr. Bokrezion, people going to work at the two boutique hotels on the block; taxi drivers taking a break.
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Row 22.8 (from top): photographers: 22.3 times more common in N.Y.C.; fitness trainers: 23.3x; writers: 25x; taxi-drivers and chauffeurs: 21.3x; home health aides: 1.63x.
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The company entered the Taiwan market in 2013, triggering anger from domestic taxi drivers, who staged a massive protest against Uber as recently as July.
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The Licensed Taxi Drivers' Association, a trade body for London's black cab drivers, welcomed TfL's move Monday, claiming "Londoners will be safer as a result."
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The announcement comes following a riot in Yogyakarta earlier last month, with some 300 taxi drivers calling for the ride-sharing apps to be banned.
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In the Twin Cities a decade ago, the airport commission found that Muslim taxi drivers were regularly refusing service to passengers who were ferrying wine.
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Perhaps realizing the difficulties in relying on regulation to keep Uber out, taxi drivers in Spain announced this week plans to create their own app.
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Uber now only offers licensed taxi services in Berlin and Munich, representing a small fraction of the tens of thousands of taxi drivers spread across Germany.
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Iraqi and Kurdish intelligence agencies had recruited informers inside Mosul, from ex-soldiers and army officers to taxi drivers, who would face instant execution if caught.
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Taxi drivers in Spain are protesting against ride-hailing apps Uber and Cabify today, holding strikes in multiple cities and a protest march in the capital.
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The U.S. company has come under pressure from traditional taxi drivers and regulators across Europe, who accuse it of unfair competition and skirting traditional licensing rules.
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Cover image: Greek taxi drivers chant slogans during a protest in central Athens on March 6, 2018 against the Uber text to be voted in parliament.
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With the average age of taxi drivers in Tokyo at almost 60 and a shortage of suitable drivers, Hinomaru started recruiting its foreign drivers last year.
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The comments come after the firm's appeal to car owners sparked a series of mass demonstrations with taxi drivers complaining the service would destroy their livelihoods.
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Health workers have trained local figures - including religious leaders, traditional chiefs, pygmy groups and even motorcycle-taxi drivers - on ways to stop the virus, she said.
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Taxi drivers and emergency service workers in Tokyo are getting English training in anticipation of the foreigners who will flood the city for the Summer Games.
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The Buenos Aires protest underscores frustration among the city's taxi drivers, who charge that Uber undercuts them on price, helping steal away consumers with competitive fares.
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In a 2005 study of more than 1,000 tips to taxi drivers in New Haven, black drivers were tipped about a third less than white drivers.
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But while the overall number of licensed taxi drivers did not seem to be affected, the number of self-employed drivers rose by an estimated 50%.
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He once famously called taxi drivers "assholes" and telegraphed to current Uber drivers that, thanks to self-driving cars, they would soon no longer be necessary.
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Food couriers have recently joined truck and taxi drivers in the category of jobs that are most likely to be made obsolete by self-driving technology.
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By the time Dave was 7, Dad was giving him driving lessons in his 1962 cab, and taking him to the local taxi drivers' credit union.
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Two hundred taxi drivers congregated in the town centre of Malaysia's Penang state on Wednesday morning, in a four-hour protest against Uber and Grab apps.
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Brazilian taxi unions and many politicians have accused Uber of unfair competition, triggering protests by taxi drivers in some cities and even attacks against Uber drivers.
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And though the contractual negotiations are proving tricky, to some amazement nearly all Helsinki's transport operators—even taxi-drivers—seem willing to give it a go.
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After all, it was just this year that 200,000 Uber users deleted the app from their phones in protest of its perceived mistreatment of taxi drivers.
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In Egypt, both Uber and Careem had their licenses suspended on March 20 by a court ruling after taxi drivers sought to shut down their operations.
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If you don't have kids and don't want them, apologies: You've heard this all before from well-meaning relatives, friends, coworkers, cashiers, taxi drivers, crossing guards.
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Greece imposed stricter regulations on the sector this year, including forcing app operators to apply for a permit and use licensed taxi drivers or face fines.
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For trade publication Black Car News, Schifter wrote dozens of columns about his job, calling out specific, proposed regulations that he said would target taxi drivers.
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"We believe that innovations will revolutionise the efficiency and service quality of the taxi industry, as well as improve taxi drivers' income," the mainland company said.
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In India, both Uber and Ola use fleets of taxi drivers, rather than private contractors with their own cars, which makes them subject to stricter regulations.
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Their firm, SafeMotos, insists that taxi drivers own a smartphone, which contains accelerometers that can determine if drivers speed or brake too hard, among other things.
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In Paris, UberPop was the reason for violent protests a year ago where registered taxi drivers blocked roads, flipped cars and lit fires in the street.
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Online women cabbies currently only make up around 236 percent of city's estimated 12,000 e-taxi drivers - but industry officials say their numbers are growing exponentially.
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Currently, taxi drivers are capped at 12 consecutive hours of driving, but the clock can be reset with a break as short as a single minute.
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Proponents also argue that the new cap will help struggling taxi drivers, whose investments in medallions have plummeted since Uber and the like all hit town.
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Drivers across the industry come from about 167 countries, with among the largest share of taxi drivers coming from Bangladesh (24 percent) and Pakistan (10 percent).
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Taxi drivers should not only know where they're going, but should also be able to convey that information in clear English, all the time, every time.
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South African media reported the deaths of 10 people in violence related to rivalries among minibus taxi drivers in Cape Town over one weekend in May.
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Indeed, Uber works with licensed chauffeurs and licensed taxi drivers in Japan, but the U.S. firm hasn't cracked the market like it has in other countries.
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Cubans working in the private sector as restaurateurs, taxi drivers and tour guides say the arrival of Kempinski and its rivals spells good business for them.
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New York taxi drivers, emboldened by five suicides in their ranks and desperate financial straits, are pressing for laws to protect them against ride-hailing companies.
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Private broadcaster Haberturk reported last week that a group of taxi drivers recently hailed an Uber car and then beat the driver and damaged his vehicle.
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Backlash from taxi drivers and government regulations in Asia's fourth-biggest economy have hampered new transport services launched by U.S.-based Uber Technologies and domestic startups.
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Questions over the impact of ride-hailing services have also become more visceral: Six professional drivers have killed themselves in recent months, including three taxi drivers.
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Six professional drivers have killed themselves in recent months, including three taxi drivers, for reasons that have included their financial distress as the industry has changed.
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Fernando Mateo, a spokesman for the New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers, called on legislators on Sunday to impose stricter penalties for assaults on seniors.
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He's an Uber driver at a time when taxi drivers are in revolt over ride-sharing apps, a war that everyone but the bosses is losing.
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In 2015, it helped break an impasse over how best to regulate Uber, which had arrived in Taiwan two years earlier prompting opposition from taxi drivers.
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Over the week, we saw the House deliver impeachment articles to the Senate, a bailout proposed for taxi drivers, and a partial trade deal with China.
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As trade tensions between the United States and China escalated, he took it in stride when taxi drivers turned him away because he was an American.
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Two years ago, for instance, the city relaxed its test standards for taxi drivers, reducing the number of geography questions, leaving those that remain fairly general.
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Taxi drivers cranked up their radios to listen, people in bars and restaurants stopped to watch, and Venezuela's buzzing social media tracked the sometimes tense session.
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Bridge has advertised its bright green logo with its ''Knowledge for All'' tag line on posters, fliers, billboards and branded vests worn by motorcycle-taxi drivers.
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The requirement for drivers to have commercial licences will contain the services' growth and protect taxi-drivers, ride-hailing's fiercest foes, or so the province hopes.
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GPS data collected by taxi drivers is helping to design plans for infrastructure and roads in countries such as Brazil and in North Africa, she said.
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Even a halfway measure last year, which put a surcharge on for-hire vehicles such as taxis and Ubers, has stalled after outcry from taxi drivers.
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It entered the Taiwan market in 2013, and its growing popularity has triggered anger among domestic taxi drivers, who staged a massive protest against Uber last year.
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In December 2015, Uber was legalised in NSW essentially overnight after Transport Minister Andrew Constance announced changes to local regulations and offered taxi drivers a compensation package.
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But about six months later, Hyundai sold its stake after thousands of angry taxi drivers, worried about their jobs, threatened to boycott Hyundai cars, Choi told Reuters.
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Greek taxi drivers surround a vehicle they say is being used by an Uber driver during a protest against ride-hailing apps in Athens on March 230.
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Taxi drivers from the main areas of Beirut say it is unsafe to come here—it can feel like the country's divided and the population don't mix.
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The company called on the government to rethink new rules that require drivers to undergo 35 hours of training, in line with requirements for traditional taxi drivers.
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"I would certainly not be too keen to send kids and young maids or teenaged daughters with male taxi drivers alone," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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In March, taxi drivers in Madrid and Barcelona went on strike to protest the emergence of the new wave of private transport companies like Cabify and Uber.
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Linda Gottlieb, one of the petition's authors, previously told NBC News she felt "embarrassed" to say where she lived when asking taxi drivers to take her home.
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At the adjoining taxi stand, taxi drivers' union leader Ravinder Singh said March to September was usually the busiest season but this year prospects were looking grim.
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Taxi drivers and hotel employees often held advanced degrees because contact with foreign tourists meant tips that paid significantly more than a job in their professional fields.
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Goma had been preparing for the arrival of Ebola for a year, setting up hand-washing stations and making sure moto-taxi drivers do not share helmets.
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One month ago, Yonathan Segovia, a Cabify driver originally from Venezuela, was allegedly attacked by a mob of taxi drivers on the streets of Quito in Ecuador.
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The new regulations were imposed under pressure from taxi drivers, who held strikes that blocked roads in Barcelona and remain on strike in the Spanish capital, Madrid.
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Just recently, the ride-sharing service faced a #deleteUber campaign after its drivers broke a strike of New York City taxi drivers protesting Donald Trump's Muslim ban.
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Taxi drivers in Hungary have demanded Uber be outlawed and its smartphone app blocked as they say its drivers breach regulations other taxis firms must adhere to.
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics recorded a little over 1.8 million truck drivers in the U.S. in 2016, and almost 200,000 taxi drivers and chauffeurs in 2017.
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Most of the Russians I have met follow the news about the American election, and everyone from my students to taxi drivers has asked me about it.
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Many taxi drivers are under incredible stress, but Mr. Ochisor's story shows how difficult it can be to convince those with severe depression to talk about it.
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And that is to say nothing of the truckers and taxi drivers who will find themselves unemployed or underemployed as self-driving cars take over our roads.
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SYDNEY, Australia — Taxi drivers in Australia are suing Uber over lost income, just days before the ride-sharing giant's stock begins trading publicly in the United States.
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Taxi drivers have been told by police not to drop people off on Ulsan's newly built bridge after three people killed themselves there in just one month.
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Others, like a female employee of the taxi drivers association who did not attend the party, contracted the virus after having casual interactions with those who did.
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Watermen were the taxi drivers of Doggett's time, rowing passenger boats that were often the quickest way around a city that until 1750 had only one bridge.
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Uber's Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi made the announcement at a conference in Berlin as dozens of German taxi drivers outside waved placards that read "Uber go Home".
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However, Uber and Grab had last year already received the higher Indonesian government's blessing to operate, following a protest which saw 10,000 taxi drivers protest in Jakarta.
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Uber, in some places, has employed aggressive techniques to evade regulatory limits, and prompted demonstrations by taxi drivers and owners in places like Paris, London and Brasília.
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Taxi drivers were refusing to pick up passengers from JFK in solidarity with the protesters, and critics interpreted Uber's move as an effort to break the strike.
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The New York Taxi Workers Alliance (NYTWA), which organized the action, said that this congestion fee could not have come at a more vulnerable time for taxi drivers.
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From record store clerks to phone operators and taxi drivers, computers are swiftly proving they can do many jobs at least as well as — or better than — humans.
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"Isaan is like being from Idaho," a backwater burg to urban Thais who view it as the place where the city's taxi drivers and domestic workers hail from.
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Although the attack left the country in shock, with condolences dominating social media and St Petersburg taxi drivers offering residents free rides, Russians are no strangers to terrorism.
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Remember January 242's short-lived #DeleteUber campaign protesting the company's decision not to suspend service in support of taxi drivers speaking out against President Trump's travel ban?
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"I think Uber drivers are tipped less than taxi drivers because tipping happens after the ride is over and not face to face," Gneezy said in an email.
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Those gathered in the street fell silent for a minute to remember the victims, before people joined in with shouts of "Viva Barcelona" led by the taxi drivers.
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The agents took rides in local taxis, loitered around locations where taxi drivers congregated, and leveraged a local network of contacts with connections to police and regulatory authorities.
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Pilots, factory workers, and taxi drivers are getting pushed out by AI. After Tuesday's showing, the work lives on online, where the portraits are going for about $500.
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But its biggest problem is the one it faces from Rome to Rio; the friction with traditional taxi drivers who see Uber as a threat to their livelihoods.
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PARIS — Taxi drivers and air traffic controllers in France went on separate but simultaneous strikes on Tuesday, blocking traffic in major cities and disrupting flights at several airports.
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Some taxi drivers set fire to tires and tried to block the highway that circles the French capital, but the police pushed the demonstrators back with tear gas.
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Some taxi drivers of elderly Toyota Prius hybrids reckon they are running on their vehicle's original set of brake pads, even with a million kilometres on the odometer.
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It entered the Taiwan market in 2013, and its growing popularity has triggered anger from domestic taxi drivers, who staged a massive protest against Uber earlier this year.
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Taxi drivers in Penang have been emboldened in their efforts to shut down the apps, after another Malaysian state, Sabah, decided to temporarily ban Uber earlier this week.
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In a statement to CNBC, the New York Taxi Workers Alliances defended the city's decision to cap ride-hailing licenses, citing the economic crisis faced by taxi drivers.
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Lawyers have already held two strikes, and teachers and taxi drivers are expected to strike next week to coincide with an international investment conference being held in Tunis.
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The court said in its ruling that UberPOP had caused a "durable disruption" of the transport sector, provoking violent protests by taxi drivers that had disturbed public order.
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Minister Andres Lajous told a news conference that the rules were aimed at rooting out corruption and leveling the playing field for ride-hailing firms and taxi drivers.
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That concession on working with taxis doesn't necessarily mean that Didi isn't focused on widening the market by enabling "ride-sharing" with non-taxi drivers in the future.
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They put in $500,000 each to carbonate and globally market T.C. Pharma's caffeine-powered syrupy energy drink popular in Thailand among laborers, taxi drivers and jet-lagged tourists.
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In Buenos Aires, taxi drivers have blocked streets during protests against the company, saying that it undercuts them by paying its drivers less than what unionized drivers earn.
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Uber has also faced opposition, as in the United States, from taxi drivers around the world who think ride-hailing companies pose an existential threat to their profession.
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POEIATA, Greece's nationwide union of taxi drivers, called a strike from 0200 GMT to 1400 GMT on Thursday, saying that many taxi operators were still offering unlicensed services.
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The decision followed mass protests by Barcelona taxi drivers who complained that their business was being undermined and the services did not operate on a level playing field.
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Guesthouse owners, restaurateurs and taxi drivers are profiting from a rise of close to 80% in the number of American visitors (excluding those of Cuban descent) in 2015.
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All too often taxi drivers reveal that they possess engineering degrees; sometimes driving is a second job taken to make ends meet after a day at work elsewhere.
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"There's always this debate when you build technology, whether it'll expand employment." says Ng. The invention of the automobile, for example, led to greater employment of taxi drivers.
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Taxi drivers who might normally speed past members of a different race may feel more comfortable picking up a diverse set of riders given good ratings on Uber.
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Uber launched in Europe in 2011, angering some local authorities and taxi drivers who said it did not abide by the same rules on insurance, licensing and safety.
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The crash rate of taxi drivers who worked 72 hours or more in a week was 8.6 percent higher than for those who worked 72 hours or fewer.
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Self-driving cars are getting better fast; at some point soon they may be able to replace taxi drivers, at least in controlled environments such as city centres.
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WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland will require Uber to use licensed taxi drivers from next year, under a plan approved by the cabinet on Tuesday aimed at creating fair competition.
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Many Iranians cut rental costs by relocating from city centres to distant satellite towns, or drive from the provinces to the capital, Tehran, to work as taxi drivers.
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The city in Spain adopted the new restrictions after days of protests by taxi drivers that included blocking major roads and trashing cars that worked for the apps.
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Like other firms in the so-called gig economy, Uber's growth has come with controversy, drawing protests from traditional taxi drivers, lawsuits from its drivers and regulatory bans.
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The city in Spain adopted the new restrictions after days of protests by taxi drivers that included blocking major roads and trashing cars that worked for the apps.
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In the late 29s, Eleanor Maguire, a neuroscientist at University College London, began studying London taxi drivers, who must memorize the city's complex layout to obtain a license.
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The argument the taxi lobby gives against ridesharing is taxi drivers have thousands of driving hours under their belt and know the city they are driving in well.
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In the statement it writes that the images of taxi drivers fighting in the streets will only harm the sector, and goes on to call for peaceful protest.
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There was a 23% decrease in annual earnings for full-time taxi drivers, the New York Post reported in March, from $45,529 in 2013 to $35,344 in 2016.
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The impact: Since November, five taxi drivers have reportedly committed suicide as a result of this financial burden, the New York Taxi Workers Alliance told Axios in May.
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MyTaxi, founded in 2009, works with licensed taxi drivers and now has more than 22,000 drivers in Germany — and the same number again in other European markets. Taxi.
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Out on the streets, taxi drivers received word of the danger within minutes when an advisory of police activity came across the blue screens on their taxi meters.
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The taxi drivers, Russian from head to toe, think that "not right now" means "in a little while," and keep following him, trying to pick up a fare.
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It is also appealing against any decision relating to whether the Licensed Taxi Drivers' Association and a union representing private hire drivers can join TFL in the case.
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Noah Ernst, a superintendent for Radio Cab, said many taxi drivers feel the 50-cent fee means a smaller tip because passengers lump everything together when they pay.
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The pair collected anonymous online testimony from women and spoke with with healthcare professionals, taxi drivers, and others who help Irish women seeking abortions on a daily basis.
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Police in the French capital fire tear gas at taxi drivers blocking a major intersection during the second major protest over wages and working conditions in recent months.
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Last November, amid a spate of suicides by taxi drivers, including three medallion owners with overwhelming debt, the Council created a task force to study the taxi industry.
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The condemned man, Carey Dean Moore, 60, had been convicted of killing two Omaha taxi drivers decades ago and did not seek a reprieve in his final months.
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Kenneth A. MargolisChappaqua, N.Y. To the Editor: We've heard about the plight of the taxi drivers and are surely sympathetic, but how about the passengers' point of view?
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The company and a handful of rivals have developed a loyal following, but their growth has been met with crackdowns by the authorities and protests by taxi drivers.
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The survey's "economy watchers" index, which measures business confidence among workers such as taxi drivers, hotel workers and restaurant staff, remained around a three-year low in August.
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The tax for small and medium-sized enterprises here has been significantly reduced, and low-income workers such as taxi drivers no longer need to pay income tax.
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She mentioned a long list of her administration's policies to help families with small children, taxi drivers, night-market vendors, small-shop owners, retired farmers and young entrepreneurs.
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Since I'm still awful at it, I use an app called Hong Kong Taxi Cards to show taxi drivers an image with my desired address written in Cantonese.
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New York's Attorney General, Letitia James, intends to sue the City of New York for $810 million claiming the city defrauded taxi drivers for more than a decade.
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Still, Desai said the city's response has been slow and underwhelming, noting the municipality waiving small fees for taxi drivers but not solving the root of the problem.
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The services could remove one of the biggest headaches for visitors to China, where everyone from taxi drivers to luxury malls have come to rely on mobile payments.
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The service could remove one of the biggest headaches for visitors to China, where everyone from taxi drivers to luxury malls have come to rely on mobile payments.
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To that end, Lyft, Uber and Via, a local competitor, proposed a $100 million fund — paid for by the companies — to help taxi drivers suffering from medallion debt.
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Taxi drivers at JFK Airport in New York went on strike, and then-Uber CEO Travis Kalanick drew public ire for allowing Uber drivers to break the strike.
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Our women will go from sober to alcohol poisoning in 15 minutes, and then scream heart-wrenching insults at taxi drivers before slumping asleep in a garden bed.
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Making the optics even worse for Uber, the company had suspended surge pricing near New York's JFK airport after taxi drivers stopped working to join anti-Trump protests there.
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Taxi drivers in the capital Prague have staged large protests against the company, which has also faced opposition to its low-cost service in other cities across the world.
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JOHANNESBURG, March 10 (Reuters) - South African taxi drivers on Friday blocked roads to Johannesburg's airport, holding up thousands of travellers in the latest protest against ride-hailing app Uber.
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Moore, 60, was convicted of murdering Omaha taxi drivers Reuel Van Ness Jr. and Maynard Helgeland in 1979, and was one of the country's longest-serving death row inmates.
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Even since we've made the film, there've been several suicides by taxi drivers that specifically cited the disruptive effect on Uber and Lyft on their livelihood as the cause.
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Taxi drivers, a prominent source of black-market currency, tie up bricks of pre-counted banknotes with elastic bands to save people from having to count them out themselves.
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Plenty of financial startups are trying to muscle in on their business, but in a highly regulated industry heavyweight incumbents are harder to usurp than booksellers or taxi drivers.
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First, more than 200,000 subscribers deleted their Uber app after the firm was accused of breaking a strike by taxi drivers protesting against Donald Trump's executive order against refugees.
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Harare taxi drivers say they are hearing more foreign languages in their cabs, businessmen gather around laptops at restaurants, and the often sleepy international airport is buzzing with newcomers.
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Taxi drivers and those with interests in the industry staged often-violent demonstrations in protest at this "foreign" entrant that posed a threat to their businesses and financial returns.
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The US ride-hailing company has come under fierce pressure from traditional taxi drivers and regulators across Europe who accuse it of unfair competition and skirting traditional licensing rules.
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"Limiting new TLC drivers will mean fewer cars on the street and more work per hour for current drivers — [for-hire vehicle] and taxi drivers alike," the group says.
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Regulators: For years before any of the recent controversies arose, Uber had been battling regulators and taxi drivers in many of the 70 countries in which it operates today.
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More than 200,000 users who were under the impression the company was attempting to profit off the backs of protesting taxi drivers deleted their accounts, according to a source.
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Manuel Valls met with union representatives and announced that the Government will work on a new set of rules that would be fair for taxi drivers and Uber drivers.
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The ride-hailing apps allow regular cars to ferry passengers, and taxi drivers say this has driven their business down with the new supply of drivers into the market.
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The company launched in Europe in 2011, angering some local authorities and taxi drivers who said it did not abide by the same rules on insurance, licensing and safety.
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By December 2017, drivers using ride-hail apps — Uber, Lyft, Gett, Via and Juno — performed 65 percent more rides per month than taxi drivers did in New York City.
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Meanwhile, the rest of the Russian aristocracy scattered across Europe—dukes that had once commanded regiments were taxi drivers, countesses that had once presided over palaces became lady's maids.
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Traditional taxi drivers have objected to Uber in markets across the world, accusing it of taking their business unfairly without having to meet the same insurance and licensing costs.
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Taxi drivers are ticketed on the Strip if they stop on the street, so don't be surprised if they drive right past you while you're flailing your arms around.
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"It needs to be regulated again so the taxi drivers can have a life besides working," wrote a commenter who identified himself as a fellow driver named Thomas Reid.
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Many interpreted that move by Uber as breaking the taxi drivers' strike, which was in protest of Trump's travel and immigration ban for people from seven Muslim-majority countries.
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Also on Tuesday, a few blocks away, dozens of taxi drivers gathered in front of the Infrastructure Ministry, demanding that the government regulate the functioning of Uber in Poland.
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Uber has been under fire recently for its perceived undermining of a taxi drivers' strike against the Muslim ban and harrowing allegations of systemic sexual harassment within the company.
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Obama eliminated the tour requirement, allowing tens of thousands of Americans to book solo trips and spend their money with individual bed-and-breakfast owners, restaurants, and taxi drivers.
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At Heathrow the deafening silence of taxi drivers in cheap suits, wearing earpieces, staring at their phone screens and holding up misspelt passenger names, was a study in contrasts.
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Goma has been preparing for Ebola to arrive in the city for a year, setting up hand-washing stations and making sure moto-taxi drivers do not share helmets.
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I wish I hadn't – it turned out that they were being made to give the taxi drivers handjobs and blowjobs, and I ended up having to do the same.
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Lawmakers in Buenos Aires have largely sided with domestic taxi drivers, most of whom are unionized, who say Uber has an unfair competitive advantage because of its lower prices.
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They must also have a state-issued driver's license, though state officials said there was no English requirement for the Class E license that many taxi drivers apply for.
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The U.S. ride-hailing company has come under fierce pressure from traditional taxi drivers and regulators across Europe who accuse it of unfair competition and skirting traditional licensing rules.
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I'm telling you about the coyotes, the kids, the taxi-drivers, the drugs, the writing, and the romance because I want to be as honest as I can here.
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Taxi drivers denounce Uber and another local ride-hailing player, Cabify, as exploitative and corrupt, and have been applying pressurize on local and national governments to protect their industry.
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Papers are awash with daily sex crime stories, including the rape of professional women by taxi drivers, so it is little wonder that Sahoo is popular with female passengers.
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Its no-fee service and taxi drivers' ubiquitous use of the Kakao platform have been seen as key to its success in the country, despite it being a latecomer.
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But many Americans remain financially vulnerable to illness of any kind, including most delivery people, store clerks, restaurant workers, taxi drivers and others whose jobs cannot be done remotely.
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"What's changed is the level of congestion, the explosive, unbridled growth of for-hire vehicles and the number of taxi drivers who have taken their lives," Mr. Johnson said.
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A number of contributing factors were at play: post WWII racial tensions with the return of African American soldiers, perennial tension between Greenville taxi drivers, city authorities, and police.
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Over the past year, a spate of suicides by taxi drivers in New York City has highlighted in brutal terms the overwhelming debt and financial plight of medallion owners.
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But they did little to rescue the thousands of taxi drivers struggling with deep debt after buying a medallion, the city permit that allows drivers to operate a cab.
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Bhairavi Desai, the alliance's executive director, said it had received calls from dozens of taxi drivers who can no longer afford to pay for necessities like groceries and medicine.
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Lyft's leaders say the city declined an offer from the ride-hail companies to establish a $100 million fund to help taxi drivers in exchange for dropping the cap.
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It wants a minimum pay rate for app drivers, similar to the metered fare taxi drivers earn; a limit on Uber's commission; and a halt to licensing additional drivers.
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The Chicago mayor's office said it has been working hand-in-hand with the city's taxi industry, reducing tight orders to help taxi drivers compete with ride-sharing services.
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The index measuring sentiment among taxi drivers, high street shop staff, and restaurant workers also fell by the most in more than three years, which supports Kuroda's cautious tone.
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That led to accusations that it was trying to undercut prices of taxi drivers who had just been involved in a work stoppage to protest the president's travel ban.
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Infected taxi drivers have been reported in Thailand and in Japan, and a Taiwanese taxi driver with no known contact with coronavirus patients died of COVID-19 on Saturday.
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For our Canadian friends, the dream ended before the train even came to a stop: Taxi drivers leaned in through the windows, wanting to know where they were going.
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Taxify said it will launch services across London on Tuesday after signing up 3,000 private hire taxi drivers, who have been vetted to ensure they meet local licensing requirements.
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Uber was also the subject of violent protests among taxi drivers in France that saw drivers burn tires and reportedly attack Uber drivers over their objections to the service.
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And since they are independent contractors for gig-economy companies, they lack some of the protections available to taxi drivers and other workers, like partitions separating them from passengers.
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The new city ordinance, which was approved by the Seattle City Council last year, will grant the right to organize through a nonprofit to ride-hail and taxi drivers.
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Instead, he told her that a group of taxi drivers at the airport had vandalized the vehicle and that he needed the money from this ride to fix it.
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"Their entire business model is based on predatory pricing," said Steve McNamara of the powerful Licensed Taxi Drivers' Association, which represents the British capital's centuries-old black-cab sector.
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Obama eliminated the tour requirement, allowing tens of thousands of Americans to book solo trips and spend their money with individual bed-and-breakfast owners, restaurants and taxi drivers.
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As Uber continues to force taxi drivers out of business, he teams up with a few disgruntled cabbies to infiltrate the network and take it down from the inside.
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Some of the first words I learned in French (it's a work in progress), were "le président des riches", taught to me by taxi drivers eager to share their politics.
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The suit alleges that Uber defied regulations and operated illegally in Australia, giving it an unfair advantage over local taxi drivers and other industry players that complied with the law.
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Uber argues that its drivers should be treated as self-employed — much in the same way that most traditional taxi drivers are — rather than workers directly employed by the company.
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Fifteen minutes later a curtain was lowered, and by 10.47 Carey Dean Moore, aged 60, who had been incarcerated for 38 years for murdering two taxi drivers, was pronounced dead.
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And aside from one picture of a seemingly empty Terminal 4 tweeted by the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, it's unclear how many taxi drivers actually participated in the strike.
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The solution, already underway, is to register the Borla taxi drivers with the city and create micro-dumping stations where they can drop off waste for trucks to pick up.
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An array of interview subjects, from Malaysian bigwigs with faded clothes to Javanese taxi drivers who believe in royal magic, provide small glimpses of humanity amid a landscape darkly portrayed.
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In August last year, seven Uber drivers were arrested for lacking permits and driving without third-party insurance, while police raided the company's offices after complaints by local taxi drivers.
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These technologies threaten the jobs of hundreds of thousands of truck and taxi drivers, and they could have far-reaching implications for everything from urban planning to the retail sector.
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The offer to bail out taxi drivers is an unforeseen twist in the years-long struggle by New York City regulators to contain the explosion of ride-hailing app drivers.
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That may not sound like a lot, but the increase was used to finance rewards to vigilant citizens (many of them taxi drivers) who caught graffiti writers in the act.
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Taxibeat, which now has more than one million customers and has teamed up with about 8,000 taxi drivers in Greece, is worried that the government plans will hurt its business.
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San Francisco and Los Angeles prosecutors sued in 2014, saying Uber's background checks were inferior to what taxi drivers undergo because they did not include fingerprint checks for past convictions.
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The ban comes as the result of a lawsuit by a taxi drivers' association with a judge agreeing that Uber drivers did not have the appropriate insurance to transport customers.
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Using a network of international contributors from many walks of life, from seasoned professionals to taxi drivers, the photo essays go off the beaten track and are often intensely personal.
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If true, that could truly change the landscape of our cities; from how human-controlled cars operate to the number of taxi drivers who may be put out of work.
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His son, taxi drivers, hotel staff and passengers on the same plane are among those quarantined for two weeks, Amnuay Gajeena, director-general of Thailand's Disease Control Department, told reporters.
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Grab is working with a small group of taxi drivers in a trial in Yangon, Myanmar's biggest city, and would increase in scale gradually, the company said in a statement.
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Food workers and taxi drivers who rely on federal workers as customers have seen their businesses plummet, while economic activity that relies on permits and government-backed loans is slowing.
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Polish taxi drivers will file a motion to the court on Tuesday to ban the U.S. Uber business in Poland, Gazeta Wyborcza daily said quoting representatives of the taxi unions.
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The AP noted that Iran still has some of the cheapest gas in the world at about 50 cents per gallon, but many people there work as informal taxi drivers.
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Uber and fellow ride-hailing company Cabify are set to stop their services in Barcelona on Friday in response to the city tightening its regulations to appease protesting taxi drivers.
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The other argument is that taxi drivers have gone through the requisite licensing and paid their dues to operate as drivers and that Lyft and Uber unfairly displace these drivers.
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Forty two Egyptian taxi drivers filed a lawsuit a year ago against U.S.-based Uber and its Dubai-based competitor Careem, arguing they were illegally using private cars as taxis.
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Gradually, they raised awareness in the community, attracted volunteers and built a network of lookouts, like taxi drivers and hotel security guards, who report sightings of turtles on the beach.
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City officials began receiving complaints of taxi drivers refusing to drop customers off in Chinese neighborhoods around the same time, according to the New York Department of Small Business Services.
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The called "economy watchers" sentiment index, which measures business confidence among workers such as taxi drivers, hotel workers and restaurant staff worsened to about a three year low in May.
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In 2013, the Paris tourism board and local chamber of commerce collaborated on an ad campaign to encourage waiters, taxi drivers and others to be more polite to international guests.
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My friend didn't encounter any signs of oppression while there; just kind motorcycle taxi drivers of Myanmar who were grateful for the tiny financial infusion he brought to their lives.
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The other is to download the BiTaksi taxi-hailing app on your phone — Uber has more limited functionality, and the taxi drivers I spoke to seemed to dislike using it.
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After it emerged that thousands of taxi drivers had been lured into reckless loans that left them with overwhelming debt, city leaders took steps to keep it from happening again.
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There may seem a world of difference between Pakistani taxi drivers and Premier League football, but what links them is that abusers were able to exert power and demand deference.
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The mayor recently rejected a city-funded bailout for taxi drivers struggling to pay off loans after the industry collapsed in the city, but he backed a federal bailout instead.
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More than half of Japanese taxi drivers are over the age of 60, according to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, while less than 10 percent are under 40.
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I've seen how Cubans, from artists to taxi drivers, speak freely about how the embargo is a prop for the state's denial of responsibility for the hardships they face daily.
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It's kind of sad about our society, but you know, I never talk to taxi drivers, and I don't feel I need to change my behavior in this regard. Okay?
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"Fedetaxi is home to all taxi drivers, with the exception of those who, betraying the industry and pursuing only profit, have moved to the [private chauffeur services sector]," Leal said.
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There's one of her in every city and every country around the world, and she was blazing mad because the taxi drivers were blazing mad and there was an injustice.
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A widely reported study published in 2006 demonstrated that the brains of London taxi drivers have larger than average amounts of gray matter in the area responsible for complex spatial relations.
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Brain scans of retired taxi drivers suggested that the volume of gray matter in those areas also decreases when that part of the brain is no longer being used as frequently.
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"Federal tax laws already offers small business owners a break on collecting sales tax, but unfairly exclude taxi drivers," Ian Black, regional general manager for Uber Canada said in a statement.
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Loggers, roofers, farmers, and taxi drivers are all more likely to die on the job than police officers, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' 2014 Census of Fatal Occupation Injuries.
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The greatest hurdle has proved to be the infrastructure: It is too time consuming for taxi drivers to find a charger, plug in and then wait for the car to charge.
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UBER HUNTERS Lawmakers in Buenos Aires have largely sided with domestic taxi drivers, most of whom are unionized, who say Uber has an unfair competitive advantage because of its lower prices.
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Instead, those who took to the streets of Italy this past week were taxi drivers, enraged at Uber's challenge to their trade, prompting occasionally violent protests outside the parliament in Rome.
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Uber smartphone app has faced stiff resistance from traditional taxi drivers the world over, as well as bans in some places over safety concerns and questions over legal issues, including taxes.
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On Wednesday, the police in Brickfields in the outskirts of the capital of Kuala Lumpur said a Grab driver was accosted by a group of angry taxi drivers during a pickup.
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A lawyer for two taxi drivers' unions, Jean-Paul Levy, hailed the ruling as "a landmark decision since the court stigmatized Uber's methods as running counter to economic and public order."
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Spillar has created a working group of taxi and limousine company representatives, as well as members of Austin's taxi drivers union, in order to get them on board with his proposal.
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But voters in Nevada -- including a ton of lower-wage workers like taxi drivers, blackjack dealers, chambermaids and food servers -- chose Clinton, who favors a smaller increase to $12 per hour.
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But in Jakarta, Indonesia, traditional taxi drivers just scored a win: New regulations set to take effect April 1 will make it harder for Uber, Grab and Go-Jek to compete.
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"What is imposed on taxi drivers will also be imposed on e-hailing drivers, to get that driver's card," he told reporters, referring to health check-ups, car inspection and permits.
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Kenya's drug-and-alcohol-addiction authority now operates a free helpline for addicts of all sorts, which is advertised on the back of high-visibility jackets given to motorcycle taxi drivers.
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Following protests by Barcelona taxi-drivers, the Catalan government had ruled that ride-hailing services could only pick up passengers after a 15-minute delay from the time they were booked.
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"He is working as an okada rider in Lagos," a number of parents said, referring to the motorcycle taxi drivers notorious for their daredevil attitudes and disregard of basic traffic rules.
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Mr. Rajan is a celebrity in a country where taxi drivers and vegetable sellers are as likely as business owners and bankers to be immersed in debate on the local economy.
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The problems facing the city's taxi drivers have become so bad, Ms. Desai said, that even on New Year's Eve many complained that they roamed around unable to pick up fares.
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New York City taxi drivers mired in debt will get a break on $27 million in fees amid efforts to prevent a repeat of a loan crisis revealed by The Times.
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New Yorkers often ask Emma Fitzsimmons, the transit reporter for The Times, how they can help taxi drivers and if they should delete Uber or Lyft, the popular ride-hail apps.
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Over the past year, a spate of suicides by taxi drivers in New York City has highlighted the overwhelming debt of those with medallions, the coveted permit for yellow cab ownership.
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The other half of the story that requires documentation is how Uber and Lyft grew up unimpeded by rules that applied only to taxi drivers, creating an environment of unfair competition.
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Steve McNamara, general secretary of the Licensed Taxi Drivers' Association, which represents about half the city's 23,000 cabbies, said he was unconvinced by Uber's efforts to project a friendlier corporate image.
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As in many cities, Uber has disrupted powerful interests in London, starting with the drivers of black cabs, who trace their lineage to 1634, and their influential Licensed Taxi Drivers Association.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A violent feud between South African meter taxi drivers and ride-hailing services Uber and Taxify escalated with another three vehicles torched using petrol bombs, police said on Thursday.
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Recent weeks have seen protests both by taxi drivers, who complain of unfair competition from services such as Uber, and rival chauffeurs, who say they're victims of discrimination by the government.
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A study in the Baltimore area in the mid-1990s suggests that assaults on taxi drivers dropped precipitously after the city required taxi owners to put partitions into all their vehicles.
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A lawyer for two taxi drivers' unions, Jean-Paul Levy, hailed the ruling as "a landmark decision since the court stigmatized Uber's methods as running counter to economic and public order".
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Indians come in all stripes, from the chief executives of Google and Microsoft to the Apus of Deli Marts and Kwik-E-Marts to the taxi drivers of New York City.
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He mixed in casual references to Philip Larkin, C.P. Snow, London taxi drivers, a late Arthur Miller play whose title he couldn't remember and the 19th-century German philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach.
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But since Beijing's patrol boats moved in, the fishermen of the west coast town of Masinloc said they had been forced to do odd jobs ashore, or become motorcycle taxi drivers.
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It has begun to train airport employees and others, such as shuttle and taxi drivers who have regular access to the airports, to do some screening on their own, he added.
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Lyft's leaders say the ride-hail companies offered to establish a $100 million fund to help taxi drivers if the city dropped the cap proposal, but city officials refused the offer.
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As a result, taxi drivers and owners have found themselves pitted against state officials, business leaders and transit advocates who see the new fees as crucial to the city's transit system.
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The authorities have detained more than 13 people since August, a sharp increase from previous years, including teachers, taxi drivers, construction workers and leftist students leading a campaign against factory abuses.
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The goal is to offer rates so cheap that it will discourage drivers from operating as on-demand taxi drivers, which has largely been the business model of Uber and Lyft.
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Raúl mentioned that some traditional taxi drivers in Mexico City serve as coyotes—low-level cartel lookouts—and that organized crime syndicates pay these driver-scouts commissions for bringing in clients.
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Over in Spain, where the company had been previously banned in cities across the country, Uber has continued to face protests from taxi drivers as recently as May of this year.
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Entering the gallery, the first piece we encounter is "Business Zone" (2016), which shows a split-screen shot of interviews with boat taxi drivers working on either side of the border.
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The feature will also no doubt be welcomed by anyone who has been ripped off by taxi drivers who take the long route while the passenger is traveling in an unfamiliar city.
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Barcelona taxi drivers ended a strike last week when government officials proposed new terms for ride-hailing services, including a stipulation that rides must be hailed at least 15 minutes in advance.
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The merged entity, which will operate under the mytaxi brand, will have 70 million passengers and 100,000 registered taxi drivers in over 50 cities across nine countries in Europe, the companies said.
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His hoarse, smoky voice, "cloud covering the moon" as the saying went, was listened to everywhere, by farmers in fields, workers commuting and, especially, by taxi drivers, to while the traffic away.
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Uber also faces political critics in many cities across America and around the world, claiming among other things Uber drivers are taking jobs away from licensed taxi drivers and causing traffic problems.
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Addressing the concern that such efforts might put human workers, such as regular taxi drivers and even Uber drivers, out of work, Frazzoli expressed doubts that it would have any local effect.
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The nationwide protest by licensed taxi drivers coincided with a walkout by air traffic controllers that forced airlines to cut flights by 20 percent, and another protest by teachers that disrupted schooling.
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"Just the way Uber was being attacked by the taxi drivers and Bitcoin was attacked by the banks, Theranos is being attacked by the powers that be," he told Bloomberg in June.
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Taxi drivers in Spain are striking today in cities including Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia to protest at what they see as the exploitative practices of ride-hailing transportation apps Uber and Cabify.
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In Europe, the company has faced protests, court battles and bans after some local authorities and taxi drivers said it did not abide by the same rules on insurance, licensing and safety.
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Last year, Los Angeles artist Matty Mo used the technology to create portraits of factory workers, art dealers, pilots, artists, and taxi drivers, jobs that he believes will be replaced by machines.
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The Greek union of some 50,000 licensed taxi drivers said the planned regulations were in line with a longstanding demand by their group which has seen its business hurt by increased competition.
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Uber's aggressive pricing, which consisted of free rides for passengers during the launch period, attracted pressure from existing bike taxi drivers and authorities, who have been arresting motorbike drivers on the street.
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Uber's first attempt drew the ire of traditional taxi drivers and government suspicion, prompting a Spanish judge to rule that it did not comply with the country's laws and represented unfair competition.
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When Jakarta's taxi drivers protested violently against ride-hailing apps like Grab and Uber in April, the government bowed to pressure and forced the tech firms to partner with local transportation companies.
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MADRID, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Spanish taxi drivers ended a six-day national strike late on Wednesday after the government agreed to limit licences granted to online ride-hailing services such as Uber.
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HARARE (Reuters) - A protest by Zimbabwean taxi drivers against a police crackdown turned violent on Monday when residents joined in and hurled rocks at police, who fired teargas to disperse the rioters.
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More than 3,85033 people were vaccinated in the outbreak in Equateur Province, beginning with front-line health workers, traditional healers and even taxi drivers who might transport patients to Ebola treatment units.
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The company already operates Uber Pool and Uber Express Pool in cities such as London and New York, so taxi drivers can carry more passengers heading to the same or nearby destinations.
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But the policies may not go far enough to protect delivery people, store clerks, restaurant workers, taxi drivers and others whose public-facing and often low-paying jobs cannot be done remotely.
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But the policies may not go far enough to protect delivery people, store clerks, restaurant workers, taxi drivers and others whose public-facing and often low-paying jobs cannot be done remotely.
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The unrestricted growth of app-based ride-hailing companies put serious financial strain on New York City's taxi drivers, making it harder for all drivers to compete and earn a decent living.
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The cobble-stoned road from the train station to Piazza Venezia, in the heart of the city, is rutted, and taxi drivers say bobbling tourists laugh as if on an amusement ride.
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Recently, private taxi drivers went on an informal strike, an almost unheard-of action, after the government announced nettlesome new regulations for such drivers as well as plans for more public transportation.
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Alderman JP Smith said part of Cape Town's calculus is to head off violence that could result if too many taxi drivers are put out of business by new ride-hailing rivals.
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They have drawn diverse crowds, including engineers, doctors, taxi drivers, university students and unemployed young people, and they spread nationwide when more than 30 labor unions staged the largest strike in years.
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It has offered drivers new insurance protections in some markets, and it proposed a fee on ride-hailing services in New York to pay for a "hardship fund" for struggling taxi drivers.
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In New York, where six taxi drivers have committed suicide in recent months, Mayor Bill de Blasio and the City Council are under pressure to adopt stricter rules against ride-hailing services.
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Backed by veterans from the Barack Obama and Bernie Sanders presidential campaigns, the guild is drawing attention to the plight of Uber drivers struggling to make a living — just like taxi drivers.
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As ride-sharing vehicles have upended the taxi market in New York, taxi drivers have been hit with increasing debt despite working longer shifts, leading to incredible stress and depression for some.
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Why get too worked up over conditions for warehouse workers, taxi drivers, content moderators, or call center representatives when everyone says those roles will be replaced by robots in a few years?
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This helped Uber, which started in 2009, quickly grow to 700,000 active drivers in the United States, nearly three times the number of taxi drivers and chauffeurs in the country in 2014.
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Some consumers saw Uber's tweet about a temporary suspension of surge pricing as an effort to capitalize on a strike by New York City taxi drivers protesting President Trump's controversial travel ban.
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Uber has been charged with creating a sexist work environment and accused of breaking up a taxi drivers' strike at a New York City airport during protests over President Trump's travel ban.
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The company says they can't be held accountable for incidents that could happen to any other driver, including non-Uber taxi drivers, and that do not have any connection with the app.
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And Uber pulled out of three German cities — Hamburg, Frankfurt, and Düsseldorf — after a judge in Frankfurt ruled that Uber drivers were required to obtain the same licenses required of normal taxi drivers.
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In New York City, the unrestricted growth has triggered serious financial strain on the city's taxi drivers, and has even made it hard for Uber drivers to compete and earn a decent living.
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In February, top South Korean mobile messaging operator Kakao Corp bought Luxi for $22 million, but it remains stymied by carpooling regulations, and has yet to launch amid fierce protests from taxi drivers.
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Today's figures also show 122 allegations of rape or sexual assault against other London taxi drivers (including black cabs, which don't exactly have a perfect record when it comes to sexual assault, either).
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And locking Uber into lobbying city authorities to 'modernize' and deregulate taxi rules in its favor — such as by removing permit caps and making it easier for more people to become taxi drivers.
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When taxi drivers in Brussels complained that Uber used elaborate tax-avoidance methods, Belgium's deputy premier retorted that the average Brussels cabbie declared an implausibly low €25 ($28) of cash income a day.
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This new interactive 3,000-square-foot gallery is a city microcosm for small visitors, allowing them to pretend to be taxi drivers, bus drivers, construction workers, street performers and, most impressively, the mayor.
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Uber has faced a rough ride in Europe, where protests by traditional taxi drivers have in the past turned violent and court bans have forced it to shut down some of its services.
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Concerned about both traffic jams and falling wages for ordinary taxi drivers, New York's city council passed a bill on August 8th imposing a one-year moratorium on new licences for hired vehicles.
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The city's taxi drivers started the protests last week against the private services, which offer rides that often undercut taxi prices and can be hailed via the internet rather than in the street.
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Taxi drivers in Barcelona ended a strike last week after regional authorities proposed the ride-hailing services can only be booked a short time in advance and cannot be hailed in the street.
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Grab notes the CCCS' objective of giving drivers choice, and is fully supportive of extending our platform to all taxi drivers, including ComfortDelGro drivers who are still constrained from picking up JustGrab jobs.
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I don't lie to the people I date, but I lie to other people all the time—shop keepers, taxi drivers, random people in bars or cafés, who ask me what I do.
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Grab relaunched its competing motorbike service through a partnership with local government-approved bike taxi drivers, while Uber's recently returned using a similar partner but it is limited to the central business district.
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Taxi drivers in major cities in Spain are on strike again to apply pressure for more stringent regulations to control app rivals such as Uber and Cabify which they view as unfair competition.
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Bellicose taxi drivers beeping their horns at pedestrians, blaring car stereos and the mosquito-like whine of a scooter weaving through traffic are a few of the sounds that dominate most Barcelona streets.
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The rise of Uber, Lyft and their cohorts isn't exactly surprising, but even with Uber's slowing growth, ride-hail companies very quickly performed about five million more monthly pickups that taxi drivers did.
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For example, private taxi drivers must demonstrate they are paying for fuel at gas stations, to prevent them from buying it at a discount from public sector workers who have an allocated quota.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Hundreds of taxi drivers blocked roads in Brussels on Tuesday, demanding the government drop plans they said would make it easier for Uber and other ride-hailing apps to operate there.
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People from vegetable sellers to taxi drivers have registered to use mobile payment applications to attract customers who do not have enough paper money, which is in short supply due to soaring prices.
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What today's truck and taxi drivers will do: Engelbert argues that self-driving technology will make getting around cheaper, leaving consumers with more money to spend that will support different types of jobs.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek taxi drivers started a 12-hour strike on Thursday over what they say is unfair competition from ride-hailing operators, in a sector still reeling from the country's financial crisis.
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Back in 2002, with the threat of a transit strike looming, city officials floated a plan that would have taxi drivers stop in specific zones to pickup passengers interested in sharing their rides.
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Zimbabwean taxi drivers, along with owners of taxi firms, accuse police of seeking to raise money for their operations by imposing hefty fines on their vehicles, which they say impacts on their business.
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Authorities in several Asian countries are taking a tougher stance against the San Francisco-based firm, amid growing complaints from traditional taxi drivers who say Uber drivers are not properly registered nor insured.
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The designs transform an average taxi into a visual playground — something that greatly benefits taxi drivers who report that riders often give them larger tips or stay in the taxi longer than usual.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Istanbul's taxi drivers have taken Uber to court, accusing the U.S.-based ride-hailing app of endangering their livelihoods in a case that could crimp its business in Europe's largest city.
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Hundreds of Istanbul taxi drivers rallied in front of a city courthouse holding the first hearing on the case on Monday, holding up signs reading "We do not want the global thief Uber".
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The Düsseldorf police said six incidents between taxi and Uber drivers had been reported, including one in which an Uber driver was forced to stop by taxi drivers, then verbally abused and harassed.
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At the vigil for Mr. Kim, the group's leader Bhairavi Desai had a message for taxi drivers who are struggling: The city is finally addressing the problem and things will get better soon.
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Almost immediately, a handful of tricycle taxi drivers encircled them, warning Rivera and the others that the city was crawling with police and offering them rides to the river, about a mile away.
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On a road that taxi drivers struggle to find, where daisylike feverfew poke through cracks in the pavement, there is not a coffee bar or a boutique, let alone a human, in sight.
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Blocking an avenue in downtown Santiago, the taxi drivers' demonstration was the latest in a series around the globe against the service, which critics say is unsafe, skirts labor laws and depresses wages.
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The example I recently wrote about in the aftermath of the revelations in Rotherham, involving a circle of abusers several of whom were Pakistani-British and taxi drivers, is a case in point.
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The current problem has the labor union that represents taxi drivers focused on the immediate threat — the on-demand car services — rather than any longer-term threat from The Boring Company's futuristic project.
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The motorcycle-taxi drivers, working as volunteers with international agencies sometimes buying their fuel, provided the "last mile" access to villages, rescuing patients, carrying blood samples and returning with the results, Richards said.
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The move was interpreted as an attempt to attract business after taxi drivers briefly halted service to J.F.K. The cabdrivers were protesting Mr. Trump's executive order blocking immigration from seven mostly Muslim countries.
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"They're beating the cars with metal bats," the singer Courtney Love posted on Twitter from an Uber car in Paris at a time of clashes between the company and taxi drivers in 2015.
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For taxi drivers at least, some cities have instituted regulations to help keep them safer — like bulletproof partitions to protect passengers and drivers, or surveillance cameras to record and deter crimes, Gurley notes.
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Instead, tour guides and taxi drivers have been quick to blame Chinese tourists for the spread of COVID-19 and eager to say that Chinese tourists have not been in Southern Vietnam recently.
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The capital's taxi drivers are in the third day of an indefinite strike, and intensified their protests in response to an apparent victory for their counterparts in Barcelona, who began striking on Friday.
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Politics struck first: in January Mr Kalanick was widely criticised for serving on Donald Trump's businessadvisory committee and for apparently intervening in a strike by taxi drivers opposed to Mr Trump's ban on refugees.
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The alliance, which represents a wide swath of yellow taxi drivers in New York City, called for a temporary stoppage of pick-ups and drop-offs at JFK between 6PM and 7PM on Saturday.
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Manchester's Sikh community was handing out free drinks and water; Sikh taxi drivers had been prominent throughout the night in turning off their meters and ferrying distraught concertgoers to makeshift accommodation around the city.
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The 124-year-old bathhouse on East 21993th Street has long been a New York institution, a bona fide melting pot, where the sweat of celebrities mingles with that of rabbis and taxi drivers.
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Thousands of taxi drivers across the country had blocked major city streets with their cabs in protest against competition they say works under less restrictive regulations that make it impossible for them to compete.
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