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I'm fine with Uber. I generally grab one from Woodlawn whenever I take the Metro North and take it home and I usually never wait more than 5 minutes. $8.
If it goes away -- well, just call the cab company at the top of the hill on White Plains Rd or take the Bx16 bus.
It is astounding how deliberately ignorant many remain about the medallion system. It was created back in the great depression when every Tom, Dick, or Harry who had no job and access to a car decided to be a cab driver, which is strikingly similar to what Uber is doing today. Back then it led to too many cars looking for a piece of the pie and nobody getting very much.
The medallions were sold at $10 a pop to regulate (a dirty word to Uber) the number of cabs and ensure that those driving them could make some money. Yes, fortunes were made by fleets as the fixed number of medallions were bought and sold over the decades and rose in value, but many were and still are in individual hands; individuals who purchased them over the last 20 years at top dollar when the city issued more medallions; many of them immigrants who believed they were buying a piece of the American Dream guaranteed by Rudy Giuliani, then Michael Bloomberg, and the City of New York. For the greatest purchase most of them will ever make, greater even then the house they live in, what did the city sell them? It was the right to hails and how one hails is not described anywhere. A hail is a hail. An eHail is also a hail according to the TLC. If the city will not enforce the medallion's exclusive right to hails then the city should refund the purchase price to any medallion owner who wants it.
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