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Taxi Drivers Face Uber Trouble
http://labornotes.org/2014/06/taxi-drivers-face-uber-trouble

Tomorrow afternoon, thousands of taxi drivers plan to gridlock the streets of London.

“London will come to a complete standstill,” predicted driver Lloyd Baldwin, vice chairman of the London Taxi Drivers Association (LTDA).

Drivers in Boston held a “rolling rally” last month, slowing traffic in the city’s center. Taxi rallies have popped up in San Francisco, Cincinnati, and Seattle, too.

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Photo Credit: By Pkg203 (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

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There's a lot of attention on the 'disruptive' ride share business, but its effects aren't pretty overall.
http://www.alternet.org/labor/uber-and-lyft-get-lot-hype-ridesharing-par...

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Taxi Drivers Face Uber Trouble
http://labornotes.org/2014/06/taxi-drivers-face-uber-trouble
June 10, 2014 / Julia Kannenlarge or shrink textlogin or register to comment
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Thousands of drivers plan to gridlock the streets of London. They're angry that "rideshare” companies are leapfrogging regulations as they roll into cities. Photo: London Taxi Drivers Association.

Tomorrow afternoon, thousands of taxi drivers plan to gridlock the streets of London.