Seattle’s taxis are hanging on as Uber and Lyft lose billions
As Uber and other TNCs have unleashed an all-out price war against the taxi companies, many were predicting their outright extinction.
Instead, most of those companies, including Yellow Cab, Orange Cab, E-Cab, Farwest Taxi and Green Cab, are still on the road. In fact, the fleet of taxis licensed by the city has actually grown 22 percent, to 844, since 2015.
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Tuesday, September 3, 2019
Tegegne Mersha used to make $200 a day before Uber came to Seattle and now rarely takes home more than $100 a day
Seattle’s taxis are hanging on as Uber and Lyft lose billions
As Uber and other TNCs have unleashed an all-out price war against the taxi companies, many were predicting their outright extinction.
Instead, most of those companies, including Yellow Cab, Orange Cab, E-Cab, Farwest Taxi and Green Cab, are still on the road. In fact, the fleet of taxis licensed by the city has actually grown 22 percent, to 844, since 2015.
Sunday, August 11, 2019
Girmay Zahilay running for Metropolitan King County Council #EthiopiansInSeattle
His parents left Ethiopia as refugees in the 1980s for Sudan, where Zahilay was born. They immigrated to South Seattle, his mom working double shifts as a nursing assistant. He attended college at Stanford, where he would major in biology and serve as president of the Black Student Union. After college, he interned at the Office of White House Counsel during the Obama administration. He continued his education at University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Thursday, June 21, 2018
Menbere Medhane owns Ahadu, an Ethiopian restaurant in Seattle #EthiopiansInSeattle
This is the third evolution of Medhane’s business, which began as a small market in 2005. After it morphed into a butcher shop in 2012, customers began to request that Medhane also cook the meat for them, then maybe some vegetables to go with it. She was game, but says it was essential that she start the restaurant with spices from her home country.
Her late father worked in the spice business while she was growing up in Ethiopia. When famine and civil war ravaged the country, he sent her to live in Seattle. The teenager, who spoke little English when she arrived in 1986, lived with an older brother, attended Garfield High School and worked at McDonald’s to pay for her prom dress. In 2014, she returned to Ethiopia, where a few siblings and her mother still live, acquired the spices and returned to open her restaurant.
Saturday, April 1, 2017
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