Taxi drivers riot in France to protest for monopoly and exclusion of competition

Terry Blue
   Taxi drivers rioted in an anti-Uber demonstration last week which was followed by a Uber demonstration in Paris this week as the cultural war between taxis and Uber heat up .Many of these drivers who vented their frustration appear to be more Algerian than French and one must be disappointed by the recent French governments decision to crack down on Uber. What this signals to the public is that people are not free to choose how they get transportation and Uber and Lyft will have to fnd ways to pressure French officials to get freedom to operate. These bastards in France stopped mid-day traffic and then escalated into violence and the Uber protest didn't have the same violence as the Taxi monopolists showed the world what they are capable of and their refusal to allow competition is disgraceful. The taxi industry is an industry that wants to continue their dominance and exploitation of a monopoly and given a choice few people would prefer a corrupt system taxi drivering and medallion pricing is seen as an investment around the world. Uber and its drivers have a right to set up shop in what is suppose to be a democratic country.
   In New York Taxi regulators are complaining and wanting to hear Taxi drivers input at how they have been affected since Uber and Lyft has slashed prices. these companies are willing and able to prove that they can provide riders with more economic alternatives than expensive short rides cab companies have long prevented others from entering and competing and basically these taxi drivers and cab companies seek to implement their dominance and monopoly.
The price cut from the city’s top car service apps comes as the yellow taxi industry is making an effort to entice drivers and riders to come back to the traditional cab.
But the yellow taxis — chained to a meter fare rate and a host of regulations — are unable to compete the way Uber and Lyft can, according to Lucius Riccio, a former city Department of Transportation commissioner. That's too bad and so sad and a change in the business and price model was long in coming and one of the positive aspects of technology into the transportation marketplace.
“Now, we have competition at the lower end for the mass market and that’s something that the city hasn’t grappled with before,” he said. Again so sad and too bad. manufacture workers long ago lost jobs to overseas workers and now the same transition is happening to these imported drivers from other countries that Americans had to rely on to drive them given no choice and preference for native drivers in an industry that long sought to exclude Americans a living wage or chance in this taxi occupation. These are also people imported willing to drive 18 hours a day and not fight for normal working conditions endangering so many people across the country as hundreds are killed by these sleepy heads a year who are able to get into the country thanks to influential relatives with to many dollars and but their way into a job for Abdullah.