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The limits of Taxis is historical and stemmed from unsafe behavior: not because Taxi companies want to sell medallions for a lot of money. Maybe that's a good
by odonnellryan 9y ago
The limits of Taxis is historical and stemmed from unsafe behavior: not because Taxi companies want to sell medallions for a lot of money.
Maybe that's a good reason now, but it's unfair to say it's the only reason.
> The supply (drivers) will decrease until it meets demand (riders).
Maybe? Economics is rarely perfect like this. See the government subsidies of many industries, farming for example.
Maybe in the middle of the ebb-and-flow lifecycle you'll have something that works really great: but at the extremes you'll have something that hurts a lot of people for a good amount of time.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2241306 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2241306
- LoSboccacc 9y agoas in Italy, making medallions transferable lifetime license was the original screwup. in general if a state want's to limit concession to a scarce resource (whether riders, coal, fishes) it's best to make them time limited and non transferable, with the current owner having a preferred option for renewal and a bid for reassignment.