Uber quietly puts an end to NYC taxi service
New York's taxi commission vetoes Uber's cab-hailing app.
(Credit: Declan McCullagh/CNET )
Now you see it, now you don’t.
Just over a month after car-hailing service Uber launched support for taxi service in New York City, the company is pulling out, CEO Travis Kalanick confirmed to CNET in an e-mailed statement today. All mention of taxi service in New York City has also been removed from the company’s Web site.
“We did the best we could to get more yellows on the road but New York’s TLC (Taxi and Limousine Commission) put up obstacles and roadblocks in order to squash the effort around e-hail which they privately have said is legal under the rules,” Kalanick told CNET. “We’ll bite our tongues and keep our frustration here to ourselves.”
Uber has been growing rapidly as a provider of private car service in cities around the U.S. Last month, it attempted to expand its presence in New York City with a taxi service. The company gave select taxi drivers iPhones that were plugged into its mobile app. That app’s users could then request a cab at a specified time, and one of the drivers would be there.
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