New York Taxi Drivers Hated Uber. Now They’re Going to Help It

After almost a decade of fights and lawsuits, Uber and New York taxis are making nice.

But Uber has a less truculent CEO now—the former Expedia executive Dara Khosrowshahi—and all that “asshole” stuff seems to be behind it.

“To quote [songwriter] Jerry Garcia, ‘What a long, strange trip it’s been,’” says Matthew Daus, a former New York City taxi commissioner who is now president of the International Association of Transportation Regulators, a nonprofit professional association of government officials. Uber, meanwhile, gains access to nearly 14,000 new cars and their drivers, at a time when both might be in short supply. Many workers stopped driving for the company during the pandemic, and the ride-hail industry had 22 percent fewer drivers in New York at the beginning of this year than it did at its height in April 2019, according to data from the Taxi and Limousine Commission.

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