Uber customers may soon be able to hail a New York City cab through the app, thanks to a partnership between the ride-share company and two taxi-hailing platforms.
As part of the deal, Uber will work with companies Curb and Creative Mobile Technologies to list all New York City taxis on its app, the Wall Street Journal reported today (March 24). The partnership comes as Uber is facing a driver shortage that has caused the price of an average ride to rise. Some New York City taxi drivers, too, are struggling to earn a living due to outstanding debt and competition from ride-hailing apps like Uber.
While Uber has already partnered with taxi services abroad, this is the first such citywide partnership in the US. Earlier this year, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said the company has plans to roll out more taxi partnerships: “I will tell you we wanna get every single taxi in the world onto our platform by 2025,” he told CNBC in February.
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