| >There is a lot of ridiculous hyperbole and disingenuousness in this post Nothing but actual experience, hello from Brooklyn. >The entrance of Uber hasn't changed my life at all, other than [...] when I go to the airport. Good for you, and I can actually know I can go to the airport. >Public transportation, which you deride, Who, me? I love public transportation. Especially when it works. Have fun using the MTA getting from Brooklyn to Queens, though. >but calling it dysfunctional because it takes a little extra time to go from Astoria to Prospect Park is absurd. A little? Getting to LGA from, say, Kings Highway in Brooklyn is a 2+ hour trip using trains and buses, going through Manhattan and crossing the water twice. Getting to JFK is 2+ hours using subway, LIRR, and Airtrain. Taxi? 45 minutes. That's one practical example for you, but we can sit down with the map one day and talk actual trip times for people living outside Manhattan. >I don't need to be reminded of the standard, clean, regulated experience I have every time I jump into a yellow or green cab Hahahaha. These cabs only got GPS and card readers like, what, five years ago? I still remember getting into a yellow cab with a driver who circled around the block asking for directions - and charging me for it. >Boro taxis were introduced into the city _two years after_ Uber entered NYC. How can you possible hand wave them away with "too little too late" That's why I called it too little too late. First, because it was too late. Two years too late, thanks for pointing that out. Secondly, because it's still too little; I very rarely see green cabs (but tons of Ubers). >They're taking about limited the number and providing a minimum wage, hardly life changing stuff. This sentence, to me, seems, how should I say it - ah, hyperbolic and disingenuous; thank you. |