Uber has high standards of road worthiness that 90% of cabs in Kenya don't meet. That's one of the reasons why the cab drivers are feeling trapped and lashing out. Desperate times calling for desperate measures

Masukuma saidia hawa watu wa taxi jameni.

They think the solution is an app like Uber...Kweli business school is expensive.

"The taxi drivers have also promised to come up with their own version of Uber to connect taxi drivers in the country." http://www.nation.co.ke/.../-/138ywmnz/-/index.html

Interesting the way the posts here are taxi drivers this, taxi drivers that, am I the only son of Mumbi here? Or are people blind to making money? Why do I see 2x1 or 1x1 on the roads? With the jams? Terminus packed with people? Or have the thugs of Nairobi made carpooling Rusian roullette?

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Those that think that normal taxis in Kenya have a case against Uber or Easy Taxi for that matter, are the good, easy Kenyans, contented, and those who demand mediocrity of their government.

As a frequent traveler, Uber has not only saved me time and money but my life.

I used to go to the airport from Dagoreti corner at 3,000 shillings, in a car that is almost broken down, always reading empty gas sign, and whose windows dont go down. Now I go to the airport at 1750 in a new car, with a working ac, with a groomed guy who asks which music I want to listen to, not the Kikuyu taxi man who plays Kameme fm and speaks in the phone in Kikuyu throught the journey.

I used to walk from my house in the dead of the night to go pick a taxi from Dagoreti Corner to the airport, now the Uber driver comes to the gate and waits.

We used to haggle over the fare price sometimes for a cool half hour. Now we both know none of us determine the price. We both know the price at the end of the journey.

Before they used to cheat me. Give me five minutes they would day. Just two minutes. Ni ka jam too hapa kwa roundabout. Now I see where the car is. I can drop a pin on it. Now the app calculates the amount of time before it arrives to where I am.

Now I can wake up and find a warm message on the phone. We thought you would enjoy a free ride today as our customer. 1000 shillings voucher.

Let me tell you something Kenyan taxi chietha. People outside your hellhole of a broken extortionist taxi system will come and suggest to you how to have some order. If you dont warmly receive that order, we will.

If you think Uber is some type of foreign thing, well your phone is a foreign thing. Toss it in the river too. And your taxi car. That too is Japanese. Do away with that too.

Just dont piss on our intelligence. Just go do some other business.

Hehe the guys are on strike from today, will any one of you miss them? will taxi transport be affected? NO, uber and easy will see surge in business, this is like going on a hunger strike in kenya, no one cares.

There is no difference between the taxi guys and the media companies' sulking when digital migration was being done!

What a waste!! That 10 litre jerrycan of fuel would have generated good money had they used their heads.

All the more reason I prefer Uber to the local taxi!

True, its innovate or die. Normal cabbies are advised to retire their overcharging junks and do something else.

If not Uber, someone else will come along and do them in.

Sad Sad Sad Sad

Why isn't the government doing something to help the uber taxi drivers and owners. Another cab was burnt along Kirichwa rd and the driver beaten senseless.