The CJEU notes that the companies are only in direct competition with each other with regards to passengers who pre-book their rides, but that the identification of the factual and legal situation should not be limited to this group of passengers, since all journeys made by taxi, including the ones where
passengers hail a cab in the streets, have an influence on London traffic safety.
Not exact matches
Wisely or not, the city sold exclusive rights to pick up street -
hail passengers in order to thin out a herd of
cabs whose competition had grown cutthroat (sometimes literally).
A lot of the
passengers which might have used a pre-booked minicab probably choose to
hail a Black
Cab, because it is faster.
Black taxi drivers» gripes with Uber include the fact that the
cab -
hailing company, which connects
passengers with drivers via a smartphone app, appears to ply for hire by having available cars visible on the app and operates a metred pay system, which are both banned for private hire vehicles.
Cab drivers usually roam the roads and can be
hailed on sight by
passengers wanting to be transported to a destination.
Depending on each
passenger's individual transportation needs, he or she may call a
cab company and request for a
cab to pick him or her up from a particular destination or just
hail a
cab they see on the road.