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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Wrong again. The city recognized the crisis in cab supply several years ago, before Uber was a viable alternative. This issue may have only come to your attention recently, but it has been simmering for years. |
No, it is you that is wrong, mostly because you are arguing against a point I've never made. You seem to think this -
"One of the features of a taxi commission is that it operates semi-independently - I doubt very much that, until Uber came along, the
majority of council and the bureaucracy gave more than a cursory thought to the taxi situation. Why WOULDN'T they trust the results of these studies?"
- means the same as "the city hasn't dealt with this issue and it came out of nowhere". It doesn't say that, even without the bolding I've added. You've conflated the point that they are now being forced to deal with the issue as a priority with a separate point that the purpose of a taxi commission is to deal with, you guessed it, the taxi industry. So the MAJORITY of councillors and bureaucrats, not being directly involved in that commission, are not generally going to be thinking about it and its focus.
This has nothing to do with whether or not they've occasionally dealt with it by commissioning a study, which is indeed "cursory thought". So, in short, stop with the "Wrong!" bit, which is intensely annoying when your point is the very definition of "completely missing."
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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
You're right, the city chose the interest of a few hundred cab drivers and a few taxi companies over the interests of hundreds of thousands of citizens.
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The city went with the changes recommended by the various studies. Once again, I ask - what should the various councils have done instead of listening to the recommendations found through detailed investigation and analysis? Just released a bunch of licences 'cause Joe Citizen figures, on the basis of anecdotal evidence, that's what needs to be done?
You are also confusing the results of policy with the intentions behind the policy - the city didn't "choose" the interests of the taxi cartel over those of the citizens, that is an unintended consequence of the system as it is. Which, I'll agree, is not a particularly good system, but Uber doesn't have a good system either, albeit for different reasons.