If anything Uber is really slaughtering the livery cab service in New York.
Yellow/green cab service is the only type you can hail down. In the outer boroughs though green cab is
very sparse, and to even get one youd have to walk to a main road and
hope an empty one passes by. So you really have to depend on the livery cab services.
The thing though is the livery cabs in New York are stuck in 1995. For one, they do not take debit/credit, only cash
And you have to call some janky number at which 50% of the time they dont pick up
When they do pick up half the time they say no cab in your area, so you always have to have like 3+ agencies on deck
and especially in this day and age nobody sits in their regular neighborhood all day. So im sitting here with bedstuy cab numbers and im hanging out in Flatbush
On top of all that when a request does go through they tell you 5 minutes but most of the time it ends up being 15min+. Its disrespectful
But Uber
Uber is the death of that bullshyt ass livery cab service. The service is so good im about to scrap my idea of getting a car in favor of using this exclusively
