TKC BREAKING AND EXCLUSIVE NEWS!!! UBER ALLES KANSAS CITY?!? BILL GEORGE BLASTS ANOTHER GYPSY CAB RIDE SHARE!!!
Once again, our blog community proved ahead of the game when it comes to the current Kansas City ride share controversy. Last week we warned about Uber showing up in town, actually we were tracking this Internets taxi service last year.
Here's a look at the best mainstream media take on Uber's Kansas City opening: uberX enters Kansas City area, city leaders want company to abide by rules
Better than that . . . We've got a FIRST look at the service in action.
Check it:
Taxi industry insiders have been lighting up ride-share services with "Don't ride with stranger" rhetoric but it's kind of obvious this Internets drive-by hookup just seems a bit to rachet to trust . . . Even if she looks like a perfectly nice lady.
A taxi industry expert advises:
"Checked out UberX tonight. Here's the driver they were going to send. In her Ford F150. I think zTrip will be fine."
Moreover . . .
Our skepticism about Kansas City ride sharing was kinda confirmed by a bit of news regarding uber and a revelation that they're not really as "up with the people" as some might suggest . . . Check it:
Time.com: Nearly 100 disgruntled UberX drivers gathered outside Uber’s headquarters in San Francisco on Thursday to demand better pay and treatment from one of the sharing economy’s most visible companies.
And now the kicker . . .
ROUND II OF THIS KANSAS CITY RIDE-SHARE FIGHT FEATURES YELLOW CAB PUSH BACK!!!
Kansas City Transportation Group Boss Bill George Seyz: "UberX is Lyft without the mustache. Unlicensed. Uninsured. As long as they get legal we have no issues."
Photobabe: Frankie Sanford
Meanwhile, Lyft is taking to Twitter to put social media pressure on Mayor Sly and it's lighting up his feed.
And so, yet another street fight takes hold in Kansas City over the weekend as local laws are put to the test amid Internets debate.
Developing . . .
The lyft line is good. but sly, i think, comes out of this losing a little credibility among his favorite tweeters.
ReplyDeleteMaybe George could change his business model in order to compete. Times change yaknow?
ReplyDeleteF-150 LMAO!
ReplyDeleteNeither Uber or Lyft give a shit about their drivers. I can assure you that.
ReplyDeleteLet the Police Department impound vehicles belonging to Lyft and Uber drivers if they continue to violate the city's regulations for vehicles for hire, such as taxis and limos.
ReplyDeleteThe KC Municipal court protects the cab monoply.
ReplyDeleteGoogle is one of the VC's funding this parasite outfit. Maybe Uber should put rainbow bunnies on the grill and give out ice cream sandwiches.
ReplyDeleteYes. Thanks for getting Fiber so we can sit and watch you upload your ID, credit card info, reveal your personal habits, and all the other things you would normally consider private and keep to yourself so we can sell it.
ReplyDeleteAppreciate it! Carry on!
They got anything besides an F-150 in the fleet?
ReplyDeleteCab wars! And so what does private enterprise do when competition starts to happen?
ReplyDeleteThey run to government for protection. Hypocrites all!
Hey why doesn't UBER and LYFT base themselves out of Overland Park. Hell 90 percent of the inner city people can just hug up to the green, yellow and metro and let the folks with the money support the new idea in transportation. Fuck KC and their leaching ass fees and taxes.
ReplyDeleteThe Boomer generation can't die off soon enough for my liking.
ReplyDeleteThere is a better wary of living and yet they will protect the status quo until their last dying agonal breath.
Fuck them.
Mean Jean Baker Peters announced today that anyone arrested for carjacking in Kansas City will also be ticked for running an illegal cab. She means business too!
ReplyDeleteHell Snapchat just admitted they have been lying about protecting their customers privacy, ect and people are going to trust their lives and personal info with with Lyft and Uber?
ReplyDeleteYou Millennials are really dumb freaking asses!
All you drunk drivers and haters need to calm down. I do not like to drive drunk. Yellow Cab is the only current option in almost every circumstance. Yellow is a disgrace. Filthy cabs, terrible drivers, unreliable...
ReplyDeleteUber is a breath of fresh air for those of us that like to take cabs on a regular basis. I use them all the time in other cities. It is about time this city joins this century.
Long live Uber!
3:33 Thanks for saving us from ourselves you Boomer cocksucker!
ReplyDeleteYour generation ran the world like a budget rent-a-car...hurry up and die off so we can try and salvage something your greed hasn't completely fucked over!
What has the dumbest generation created. Facebook?
ReplyDeleteThat and endless bullshit 4:25
ReplyDeleteFacebook vs a near total environmental wasteland?
ReplyDeleteYep, I'd agree that you cockgobblers have got us beat in terms of legacy so far.
You burned through the gift of cheap fossil fuel like Tony Montana hoovered up cocaine...and you shitheels are STILL smug about your place in history.
Thanks for the beautiful American cities you're leaving us by the way. Real nice job there.
Geez calm down you faggot pussy, go take a gypsy cab ride and find a nice big nigger cock to suck, I'll bet you'll feel better.
ReplyDeleteThis shit is gonna be gr8. Bust the medallions!
ReplyDeleteAnything happening besides drinking and sports today?
ReplyDeleteNascar
ReplyDeleteFuck the snot nosed junior twats. The Boomers are gonna go ahead and drain their IRA's, use up the rest of the oil in their RV's, find that last water reservoir to piss in and leave you fucking kids to either invent the nuclear powered tractor or starve.
ReplyDeleteThese disruptive lil psycho app powered twits don't like being disrupted.
ReplyDeleteFunny
Hey I'm a drunk mother fucker....can somebody with a monster truck pick me up at the track and take me to Odessa ?
ReplyDeleteBring some chicken and beer too.
7:22 call your hipster kid and tell to come get you on his skateboard.
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