[mpeastend]

Same situation here in NYC. They've added 80K+ drivers who are mostly on their way to or from Manhattan. Add that idiot army to the road work, regular traffic, new bike lanes/crazy new traffic patterns from our current & past mayors, then you've got a recipe for a real *****storm everyday. Everybody has noticed it and is pissed off.

Uber & Lyft are basically taxi driver fantasy camp for the average schmuck who really shouldn't drive professionally, if at all. Their business model requires them to be distracted drivers, with their heads buried in their phones. I've seen so many of them pull crazy bonehead moves, I can't believe that there isn't an epidemic of crashes involving them. I give them a wide berth here in NYC after too many white knuckle incidents. My hatred for them runs deep. Luckily they are easy to spot here...average cars with TLC plates. I hear in most other cities they just have regular plates.

Yellow cab drivers that have any kind of driving experience blow these guys out of the water in all manner of car control, situational awareness, etc. After reading about all the money that Uber & Lyft are losing right now, my sincere hope is that the business will implode, especially when the NYC congestion pricing starts in 2021. Ironically that pricing was brought about the current congestion nightmare that Uber & Lyft helped create. When their prices come more in line with what yellow taxis charge and the companies can no longer afford to subsidize and pay the drivers what they're getting now (i.e. meaning losing even more money than they are right now), then maybe the herd will thin and they will go back to babysitting or whatever.