The over-supply of taxis has the opposite effect of a more regulated public transport. Public transport suffers because of prioritising cars in general. It do

The over-supply of taxis has the opposite effect of a more regulated public transport. Public transport suffers because of prioritising cars in general. It doesn't particularly matter if cars are privately owned or taxis but as long as the city infrastructure has been designed more for automobile traffic than pedestrians, cyclists, and public transit, then these other forms of transport suffer. To make public transit relatively more efficient, the streets must be put on a diet and narrowed down. This frees more space for pedestrians and while car travel is still possible it's more cumbersome so it effectively taxes out all but truly necessary car traffic. Try driving through Central London versus taking the tube: you can do that but you don't want to.