Civil-Broccoli-4588 t1_j9dp2zh wrote on February 21, 2023 at 4:00 AM

As a former uber driver, this strike is completely justified. First off to drive in NyC you need special licenses, plates and pay exorbitant amounts of fees to the TLC which just whittles the driver’s income to nothing almost. Not to mention the cops and traffic people unfairly target drivers for tickets. This takes a toll on these drivers, and then you have uber taking a 35% cut from the total fare, which has went hp from 10% when they started, to slowly 35% which is insane! Alot of drivers are now in debt, barely making it and most are immigrants with families to support and no real way of making money. Back in the day, the cab business in Ny had immigrants making good enough money to send their kids to school, buy a low income house and live off in the lower middle class, now they all are living below the poverty line.

damnatio_memoriae t1_j9ed8nr wrote on February 21, 2023 at 8:31 AM

surprised how quickly uber turned into literally just yellow cabs with an app. all the same problems, except i dont have to stand on the corner to get one.

shemp33 t1_j9f32lx wrote on February 21, 2023 at 1:41 PM

Welp, you're in luck, because you can use an app for Yellow cabs too... Download Arro...

fork_yuu t1_j9fik5b wrote on February 21, 2023 at 3:36 PM

1.9 star review on the play store.

Does this take care of my fear of getting scammed by cabs? I'd gladly pay extra for Uber/Lyft knowing ahead of time what I'm paying and their customer support.

shemp33 t1_j9fmcba wrote on February 21, 2023 at 4:01 PM

You gotta figure, the definition of "scammed" varies quite a lot.

My personal experience using Arro: it works as expected. You use it to request a cab, the cab comes. You use it to pay when you're done, it takes the payment. Basically, it worked like Uber, but for regular taxis.