I taxi di Dublino organizzeranno sei giorni di interruzione nella “grande escalation” della controversia sull’app Uber
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/12/05/dublin-taxis-to-stage-six-days-of-disruption-in-major-escalation-of-uber-app-dispute/
di NewAccEveryDay420day
32 commenti
Fuck the Taxi drivers.
Taxi drivers find it appropriate to hold the country hostage for the decisions of private companies and self employed individuals
Unclear what their goals are?
Open up the market like every other market.
Stop using the app? If customers prefer the app then maybe the drivers are the problem.
They live in their own echo chambers… Pricks
So there won’t be any taxis driving badly holding up bus lanes next week?
Angry chariot drivers protesting at Henry Ford. The industry has changed lads. For the better. Get over it, adapt, or disappear.
I know it’s not possible (public transport and such) but wouldn’t it be great if public refrained themselves for the whole December from using any taxis?
Just a little smack on the wrist…
When I was walking home last week when they were disrupting , a lot of the drivers were completely reckless: accelerating and decelerating randomly and violently on the road or deciding suddenly with no warning to stop in the middle of the street during rush hour traffic. Naturally, this exacerbated the road rage of some other users which lead to a few rash overtakes and even a few near misses.
Whether you support or oppose the taxi drivers , that sort of carry-on is completely unacceptable. I hope if anyone does that next time they’re brought up on dangerous driving.
Arrest the cunts if they block roads, and tow their cars.
Taxi drivers, the most aggressive drivers on the road, running red lights, blocking yellow boxes, aggressively overtaking and generally always causing chaos. I have no sympathy
Let us ride share!
I use taxis about 3-4 times a week, and ever since those protests I’ve been using Uber fixed fares exclusively.
On top of a cheaper price on average, it also works as a filter to weed out the usual pricks and racist wankers, almost guaranteeing that you’d get a nice quiet drive!
These pricks need to be told to fuck off. I hope the Gardaí get involved to stop this.
Don’t you need permission to protest at this scale safely?
If they cause traffic to back up, they are also causing blockages for emergency services?
I’m even more convinced to exclusively use Uber from now on
If they don’t like it, then don’t use it. It’s quite simple.
They seem to want the benefits of getting jobs booked through Uber, yet want all the conditions and payment of those jobs on their own terms.
You can bet most of these bellends are still accepting jobs on Uber.
Why should I care? They have no issues charging €70-90 for an airport run from Dublin. Go Uber, do it.
Besides what stops them boycotting the app?
I’ve specifically downloaded Uber because of this.
Is there a realistic possibility the govt will give in to them?
wondering if it’s worth some of us contacting our TDs to say we support fixed pricing to reduce the risk of the taxi lobby getting their way?
Ireland is definitely the one country in the world where Uber will first introduce cheap fares to drive out the competition and then jack up the prices to be higher than what the original companies charged. Yep, that is definitely what will happen.
Have some sense, people. You don’t have to like the Irish taxi system to see that Uber are an evil pox on humanity.
All they’re doing is advertising the Uber App. I never used it, but will probably look into it now as it sounds like a good deal.
I’ve actually deleted Freenow and downloaded Uber because of how annoying their little protest was the other day. My company allow us to expense taxis quite a bit and I know a good few others who’ve done the same this week.
The death of the taxi industry is just the free market at work. Don’t charge out the arse for a five minute car ride, and maybe you’d have more business?
Pillocks.
Taxi drivers brought Uber to Ireland
They worked for Uber
They have advertised Uber
They have told passangers to use Uber
Now they are blocking everyone else because Uber is not working out for them
No sympathy and nobody should have for them.
Thanks for advertising the fixed fare on Uber lads! Will be using that going forward
Can we just not legislate for actual Uber ride sharing and solve the cost and availability problem?
Thinking about making a big sign saying “try Ubers fixed fares! It’s cheaper!“ and standing at taxi ranks.
Taxi drivers that intentionally disrupt traffic like this should have their licenses suspended. If they have an issue with Uber then don’t fucking use Uber, it isn’t that hard.
This has shown in even plainer view the size of the chips on taxi drivers shoulders.
The consumer is finally getting a fair deal and these boyos are bleating about it. Dont use it fairly simple
Taxi drivers have to be one of the most deluded and entitled members of society. It’s a very low skill job, but they expect the financial reward of high skill labour. And they’ve had this attitude for as long as I can remember.
Part of what feeds this attitude is how good they had it for years. They don’t see that as good luck, they see it as proper order.
This is probably the least sympathetic strike / protest that I’ve seen in the state.
In saying all that, it’s still work and they deserve to get paid. But I don’t see why they should earn, or feel entitled to earn, more than most other low skill workers.