overtaken traditional taxis as the preferred mode of transportation for business travelers. they found that 31% of ground transportation receipts were from uber compared to 24% from taxis. just a year ago uber accounted for 8% and taxis took 37% of receipts. the app is going through a rough ride in new york. bill diblasio is looking to cap the number of uber for higher vehicles in the city. uber is using the own app to fight back. it includes a diblasio mode that shows no cars are available or wait times of 25 minutes and a button that takes users to a petition against that proposed cap. wow. the new york times i know, isn t incredible? reports the ride sharing service is becoming a point of division among candidates for 2016. regular uber riders include jeb bush, rand paul and senator marco rubio. there is even a chapter in rubio s book called making america safer for uber. hillary clinton said she has not
yet used uber. she did not mention the company by named but is concerned about the workplace protections that will come with modern jobs. i ll tell what you, mike barnicle, you use uber a good bit, don t you? yeah. has bill diblasio ever taken a cab in new york city? if you take a cab in new york city, you put the uber app on your phone immediately when you get out of the cab. come on. let the free market work. i have taken a lot of cabs through the years. i will tell you though with uber my biggest challenge, it really is i was telling people last night who didn t use uber. my biggest challenge with uber is that when i m in my apartment at 5:00 in the morning and n. new york city and i call for a car to come pick me up my biggest challenge is running out to get to the street before the car does. and i m dead serious. i don t want to keep them waiting. i mean i got to wait until i m so the idea that
can see the car coming for you. it will be here in two minutes. you have the phone number of the driver of the car. come on. and it s great if you have young people in your house. because they go out to bars and everything like that. you don t have to worry about them driving. tell them use uber. and by the way, it s a great point. as all of you that know me i hardly ever go out. i went out one night, my brother was in town. we went out to eat. and it was late. and he said try uber. i pressed the button. and while we re getting up from dinner, the car you see the car zip up and it s right outside. you jump inside you go home. i thought for younger people who actually do go out at night, this is the safest it s extraordinarily safe. and again, why don t we let the market decide instead of having people come in for whatever political reasons are coming in? i don t know.
government is going to come in and work to make that less efficient is one of the reasons why americans hate politics. uber works. i was very critical and skeptical of uber before. but it works. you know, there are like if it s raining or it s 4:00 or 5:00 in new york city good luck getting a cab. you re going to walk in the rain 20, 30 blocks. that doesn t happen anymore with uber, mike. again, i find it hard to believe that anybody would try to get in the way of something that actually works. bill diblasio doesn t have to worry about cabs or uber now because he has a police escort wherever he goes. he is always late wherever he goes. doesn t matter to him, time apparently. he s late to every appearance. but come on. stay out of it! cabs versus uber. let the free market decide. and the free market is deciding especially if you point out if you re standing on a thursday or friday afternoon, any afternoon in the weekend in any city in this country and it s raining and a lot of traff