After taking a 40-percent dive in revenue following the launch of transportation network companies (TNCs), Seattle's Taxi Industry has found new momentum.
Alexa Vaughn reports that in Seattle, "the differences between taxis and services like uberX — Uber’s nonluxury passenger service — are diminishing…"
"Yellow Cab’s 2-month-old ride-request app — a sleeker upgrade from the app it rushed to release about a year ago — is humming along without glitches" and "thanks to a switch to GPS-dictated driver assignments, average response times within the city have almost been cut in half."
Vaughn's report touches on a few of the additional positive talking points for the taxi points for the taxi industry in Seattle, coming against the backdrop of a string of bad news at the national level for Uber, one of the most popular TNCs.
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