Sir, - Taxi drivers have made it abundantly and painfully clear over many years that they do not care at all what happens to their customers, the general public.
They do not care when people are forced to queue for hours on wintry nights or walk home in dangerous conditions. They do not care about the absurd artificial shortage of taxis that they created by refusing to countenance any realistic increase in the taxi fleet, even as demand soared. They do not care about anyone else at all.
Now they demand sympathy, support and even reimbursement for money they speculated on permits as if these payments had been underwritten or guaranteed. One trusts that their ludicrous demands will be treated with as much contempt as they have displayed towards the people of Ireland's cities for so long. It would seem that the chickens have come home to roost. - Yours, etc.,
Ben Walsh, Haight Street San Francisco, CA. USA