Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

Obsolete business models die. It's unfortunate when their employees can't cope with the stress of losing a job, but what are you going to do? Have the government step in and subsidize a dying industry at the expense of superior competition? The whole medallion system is idiotic and anti-competitive in the first place, and the idea of expanding it to kill off competition is absurd.

The real problem is that people are gullible enough to take a job where you, on average, pay money for the privilege of working and funding someone else's profits. If these drivers actually did the full analysis on their expenses, including fuel, deprecation, maintenance, etc, they'd often find that their hourly pay is below minimum wage, and in many cases negative. If the employees of these companies had more sense about it and refused to work without proper compensation their cost vs. conventional taxi services would probably be a lot less impressive.