You know, I always want to take a yellow cab home from the airport to support the taxi drivers who, a few years ago, were killing themselves in large numbers due to the medallion debt. But I’m not even home yet and the fare is already above what I’d have paid with Uber. It’s a shame.

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It’s been long enough. It seems like the taxi industry’s failure to make meaningful improvements is just negligent at this point. I don’t want to harm the people stuck in bad contracts, but I also don’t want to reward a truly bad system. Last time I took a cab he told me to take a photo of the meter as my receipt.