The title of this article is a little misleading. In absolute terms, medallion cabs are still about 10x more active in outer boroughs than Uber. (~1M rides for

The title of this article is a little misleading. In absolute terms, medallion cabs are still about 10x more active in outer boroughs than Uber. (~1M rides for Uber vs ~12M rides for green/yellow cabs). It seems like it would be more appropriate to compare these figures to other livery cab companies since that is essentially what Uber is. I don't think it's very surprising that Manhattan has a higher percentage of street hails than the outer boroughs.