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NTA 'unsupportive' of Uber's Irish plan to expand

magicbastarder · 2017-07-28 07:58:59

The National Transport Authority has told ride-sharing service Uber that it is unsupportive of the company's plans to expand in Ireland. In a letter to the San Francisco tech company, the NTA described Uber's proposal to operate a pilot scheme for paid trips in private cars as "undesirable" and would result in unfair…

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#182 25-12-2017 2:49pm
mdebets

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markodaly wrote: »

So, you are in favour or the state creating an artificial barrier to entry to ensure a 'healthy' taxi service, as in to protect those already in the industry, nothing at all about servicing the needs of the customer which you have not mentioned. So what if every Tom Dick and Mary wants to drive a taxi. The state should not decide this, it should be up to the individual themselves. Your level of thinking belongs in the 1970's.

The 6300 euro figure is nothing more then state sanctioned robbery. There is no extra training needed to be a taxi driver, anyone with a full clean license and clean criminal record should be able to take fee paying passenger and that the state asks people to pay a sum like that for the privilege is a disgrace. It is actually very authoritarian.

To be honest, its this level of thinking that makes me look forward to more automation where by a human taxi driver is no longer needed. I suppose we will have to block that too with some tax.:rolleyes:

You need some barrier to entry, to protect the taxi industry, but also to protect the customers and the general public.

If every Tom, Dick and Harry could get a Taxi could get a license, the market would be oversaturated, especially with part-time drivers who are only there, to earn some additional money on a side job (and people are already complaining of too many taxis clogging up the streets on Saturday nights). Most of them would only work on lucrative shifts, taking the average income per taxi down, which would lead long term to the exit of full time taxi drivers and a severe reduction on non-lucrative shifts, So longer waiting times for people.

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