On 2015-10-03 09:57:52 +0000, Recliner said:

Exactly. There's nothing to stop a group of friends hiring a cab together.
But why shouldn't others, who are willing to share but don't have anyone to
share with, allow the cab firm to do it? This is a very popular business
model in the third world, as it provides extremely economic more-or-less
door-to-door transport in countries with poor public transport. It would be
less popular here, but that's no reason to make it illegal.

I think it could become quite effective to operate that kind of service
in rural areas or in the evening and other periods of low public
transport demand. There do exist timetabled shared taxi services, but
these are so heavily regulated that they are near useless.

Neil
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