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Taxi union says city's deal with Uber, Lyft fails to stop lockouts

BY CRYSTAL LEWIS
Posted 9/6/24

Uber and Lyft drivers say that a recent city agreement with the rideshare companies designed to reduce their restrictions to the app has not prevented them from being removed from the platform for long periods, severely cutting into their income.

“I have been locked out for two weeks now. How am I going to survive?” Alpha Barry, a longtime Lyft driver, said during a Friday press conference condemning the agreement as impractical at best and useless at worst. 

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