This great story "Why You Can't Get a Taxi" about Uber in the DC metro area got buried a while ago. > “I want to get a license to drive a limo,” I told him. “

This great story "Why You Can't Get a Taxi" about Uber in the DC metro area got buried a while ago. > “I want to get a license to drive a limo,” I told him. “There’s a moratorium,” he said, and pointed to a memo posted on the wall. I’d like to tell you exactly what the memo said, but the commission wasn’t giving out copies—“We had some, but we ran out,” said the security guard, and no wonder, given that the “temporary” moratorium has been going on for years. The gist was that there would be no new limo licenses until the commission decided to hand them out. “Take a picture with your phone,” suggested a nice driver who was waiting for an appointment in front of the desk. “No pictures!” said the guard. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/05/why-you-can-8217-t-get-a-taxi/8942/ http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/05/why-you-...