Link: http://www.themonitor.com/news/local/article_080b6812-4737-11e3-8ae4-001a4bcf6878.html
Category: Public Safety
Who: Individuals
Level: Local
Why: Taxi services can not travel between Texas and Mexico to help protect the safety of their drivers. This is upheld much controversy for individuals traveling and the Taxis service stopping the travel.
My Views: The Taxi service had much conflict within its own to stop the travel over the Texas and Mexican border but he knew it was the safe thing to do and putting his drivers at that risk was not the right thing to do. The owner of the company and monopoly owner of in-transit for the area wanted the judge to also not allow any other company to come in and make the travel over the border giving him any competition. The judge went for this and now the cit council may not give permision to any commercial companies that want to come in and set up shop for a taxi service. This is great for Franz the original taxi driver but this just shows what money does to politics. He has bought out the city council to not allow any competition and he now does not have to make a drive he no longer wants to do. He is supported by it being an unsafe drive for his drivers, which is nice, but if another company wants to take this risk and thinks that they can do it with no harm they should be able to.
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