You know that is a direct result from competition from rideshare alternatives, right? Growing up in the late 90s and early 2000s, taxis always added an excitin

You know that is a direct result from competition from rideshare alternatives, right? Growing up in the late 90s and early 2000s, taxis always added an exciting extra frisson to any airport trip or evening date. Would they turn up at all? Would they turn up, honk their horn, and drive away if you didn't run out the door in under a minute? Were you going to be left stranded at the end of the night with a constantly engaged taxi call line? Leaving you to resort to calling friends and family to pick you up? Perth taxis were some of the most expensive and hardest to book in all of my experiences around Australia, pretty much right up to the late 2010s, which unsurprisingly was a few years after Uber's entrance into the market. If taxis are a better service than Uber now, that's great. We probably want to keep that competitive pressure to keep the bastards honest.