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Not waving goodbye to street-hail taxis just yet
Will proposed regulatory changes do enough to arrest shrinking cab numbers, or should the writer get over her aversion to private-hire cars?
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The taxi population hit another low in January 2024 with a fleet of over 13,400 – fewer than half the 2014 peak of over 28,700.
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I felt like a T-Rex (or a Taxi rex... I mean, Tyrannosaurus rex) waving its tiny arm in vain by the road as a dinosaur street-hailing cab commuter.
Confession: I am not even a loyal taxi user and have not been taking cabs regularly for nearly two decades. I prefer buses and trains instead.
