TEHRAN - Mansour Faridfar did well on the black market until the law caught up and left him jobless, forcing him to join the thousands of "shakhsi" unofficial taxi drivers clogging Tehran's streets. "I've personally witnessed them dare to go to taxi ranks and take work away from (official) taxi drivers," he told a transport conference. Tehran already has 78,000 official taxis -- more than five times the number in New York -- and another 35,000 agency cabs. There are the yellow taxis of the municipality, the green taxis of the official private network, and neighbourhood agencies. On a recent trip to the famed Friday bazaar, two expats stood in the blazing midday heat, waiting for their Snapp car to inch its way through traffic.

Source: Bangkok Post October 10, 2016 03:22 UTC