At least locally, breaking the taxi medallion cartel was a godsend if you lived in a poorer part of time / needed to get places on a weekend. There had to have

At least locally, breaking the taxi medallion cartel was a godsend if you lived in a poorer part of time / needed to get places on a weekend. There had to have been some deals on backend to keep things the way they were - insane shortages of vehicles on weekends and no service to minority areas - with Uber you can get dropped and picked up most places I've found even dicey ones.