At least in San Francisco, the old Taxi system was a deliberately undersupplied crony capitalist disaster.
It served to enrich a few Taxi medallion owners and left most people without any reliable way to get a ride from A to B most of the time.
Now that we have functioning ride sharing systems, people actually can reliably get a ride from A to B. So of course we do that more than before, and there is more traffic. This is a symptom of a better functioning society with a better life for its residents.
It served to enrich a few Taxi medallion owners and left most people without any reliable way to get a ride from A to B most of the time.
Now that we have functioning ride sharing systems, people actually can reliably get a ride from A to B. So of course we do that more than before, and there is more traffic. This is a symptom of a better functioning society with a better life for its residents.