What Next TBD: Uber Makes Nice With Cabs

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4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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The rideshare company's founder once called taxis “evil.” Now, Uber might need them to survive. Guest: Preetika Rana Host: Lizzie O'Leary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.7	On Wednesday afternoon, I caught up with New York cabbie Jaime Serrano as he was heading home from work.
0:39.9	And a yellow-capped driver.
0:42.9	And I'm doing this for the last 20, 23 years.
0:47.1	Jaime bought his taxi medallion decades ago and paid more than $300,000 for it.
0:53.4	What he was buying was exclusivity, the legal right to pick people up at airports, to drive them
0:59.2	around the city, to operate as a taxi driver.
1:02.5	I was paying for a privilege, you know?
1:05.4	Over the last decade, that privilege evaporated because ride share companies like Uber and Lyft can go to all the places
1:12.7	Jaime goes without the investment in a taxi medallion.
1:15.7	If they don't pay nothing for do the same job that we do, after we pay thousands of dollars,
1:24.1	I think it's not fair, you know, for drivers, especially for on the driver.
1:29.9	It's a story that's pretty familiar around the world by now.
1:33.7	Uber disrupts a taxi market.
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