Readers revile Visa taxis
Not since poor Vlaïka Tesaøová met with a storm of
protest over her demand that we publish in Czech have
our readers been so united on an issue. Of the 30
emails we got, all but one reader agreed that there are
no worse drivers in Prague than the Visa taxis. What
about the police, the lone dissenter asked? Many
readers said the problem is even graver than we
depicted. The airport taxis have a monopoly, they said,
and use it to gouge customers. Efforts to get Mayor
Pavel Bém to do something have fallen on deaf ears,
one of them said. Another, a lawyer, said there is also
an antitrust issue. Another reader said he wonders how
Visa can keep its name on such a symbol of fraud and
irreverence. It sends the signal, he said, that Visa is the
perfect card for crooks. Two readers noted that the Visa
taxis don't even take Visa cards. Perhaps they couldn't
meet the conditions.
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