Sentences with phrase «with local taxi drivers»

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

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.

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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.

Some of the rules that were outlined include requiring such services to share their data with local transport officials, signing up their drivers on labor contracts, insuring both the cars and the passengers and registering their cars as taxi services.

GrabTaxi, however, functions as a third - party app for booking taxi rides, allowing riders to connect with taxi drivers from various companies while operating within local taxi regulations.

Speaking with David Akuetteh on the maiden edition of Luv FM's Burning Issues, local segment of the Super Morning Show, a driver at local taxi station at Asokwa lamented the latest increase will badly affect business.

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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.

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