Gary Stein: "Will South Florida taxis clean up their act?"

First, if you support Uber and other similar transportation options here in Palm Beach County here is how you contact your county commissioner and there is also a form letter to use if you wish.

Now to Gary Stein, an editor at the Sun Sentinel. He has some issues with taxis in south Florida. Here are some:

If taxis and taxi service were good, they wouldn’t have to worry about competition from Uber or Lyft or anybody else.

• But cabs smell.
• They often don’t have working air conditioning.
• Sometimes the credit card machines are broken.
• The drivers can be surly, and not know directions.
• It can take a long time to get one to pick you up.
• And the prices can be double what Uber charges.

And you really wonder why people deluged the county with complaints when Uber left?