Sentences with phrase «local taxi drivers in»

Uber has long met with resistance from authorities and local taxi drivers in Europe.

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The address was actually the headquarters of Montreal's taxi bureau, and the person behind the ambush was Hassan Kattoua, a local cab driver and one of many who are angry at Uber's presence in the city.

Uber's lawyers are arguing that the company merely connects riders with drivers (unlike a taxi company, which actually employs the drivers) and that the local laws were never designed with our modern day app - centric world in mind.

Protests against the company's taxi app erupted soon after they began operations in China with local taxi drivers protesting against it.

Local officials praised the legislation and said it would put more people to work and more money in the pockets of taxi and livery drivers.

While on our honeymoon in the Bahamas we wanted to get a taste for the local flavor and everyone we asked — from taxi drivers...

While this in itself is a bit of an overstatement (there is plenty of insightful travel journalism out there to offset the generic pap), Thompson proceeds with an accurate roundup of the elements that conspire to create bad travel writing: throw - away words like «hip,» «happening,» «sun - drenched,» «undiscovered,» and «magical»; imperative language that urges the reader to «do» this, «eat» that, «go» here; stories that depict tourism workers (taxi drivers, hotel clerks, bartenders) as «local color»; the fake narrative «raisons d'etre writers invent to justify their travels»; the untraveled writers and editors who assemble authoritative - sounding travel «roundups» from Internet research; the conflicts of interest that arise when writers fund their travels with industry - subsidized «comps»; publications running what is essentially the same story over and over again, never questioning stereotype assumptions about certain parts of the world.

There was the time in Santiago when I was covering a tournament and became friendly with a local taxi driver, who offered to drive me around during the week.

There is a local airport in San Ignacio that is easily accessible, and taxi drivers can meet you here to take you straight to your hotel.

Because of the local driver collective / mafia it can be close to impossible to be picked up by a registered taxi in some areas of Canggu, especially near the beach.

Aggrieved and listless faces stare defiantly at the camera in photographer Matthew Joseph's latest series, examining the impact that Uber has had on local taxi drivers and their businesses across New York, Paris, Cape Town, Johannesburg, London and Rome.

Would you be willing to ride Uber in a city where you knew local taxi drivers had a very negative view of the company and could resort to violence?