[gensym]

If you think the current licensed taxi fare structure is fare, then you must have spent your entire life in wealthy neighborhoods, or you would know how difficult it is to get any taxi outside of those neighborhoods. The wealthy have already co-opted the "infrastructure" that is taxis, at least in Chicago and New York.

[vannevar]

This is true, but making service unaffordable to even the middle class during peak time is not the solution.