{"id":175726,"date":"2025-11-11T22:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T22:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/175726\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T22:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T22:55:12","slug":"limerick-taxis-to-pause-uber-operations-ahead-of-college-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/175726\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick taxis to pause Uber operations ahead of &#8216;College Christmas&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.live95fm.ie\/news\/live95-news\/\" class=\"c-btn c-btn--small c-btn--secondary-fill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>        All Live95 News<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/691372f64a99b.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            The annual celebration brings thousands of students from Castletroy into the city, generating high demand for public transport and taxi services.\n        <\/p>\n<p>Taxi services in Limerick will sign out of their Uber apps tomorrow, as students of the University of Limerick celebrate &#8216;College Christmas&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The action is in protest of Uber&#8217;s new fixed rate policy, which provides customers with a guaranteed maximum price for their trip.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6913732b3ae40.jpg\" style=\"width: 517.375px; height: 291px;\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Dozens of Limerick taxi drivers gathered to express their concerns about Uber&#8217;s new fixed rate policy | Via\u00a0Mutaz Mahmoud\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Drivers say this will negatively impact their income, as it will not account for any changes or possible disruptions to their routes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a gathering of drivers in Limerick on Monday, Mutaz Mahmoud raised his concerns with his fellow taxi drivers:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have our own Irish community, we have NTA, we have Irish regulations\/taxi regulations\/meter seals and everything. We go through our regulations, but still somebody else comes and an app comes to tell us what to charge them. That is not the way we run business in Ireland&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mahmoud says the strike will take place from 7am onwards, the time when most students start to head into Limerick City to line up outside of bars and clubs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The job&#8217;s gonna start from 7 8 9 in the morning onwards. Please shut down your apps to show them the unity among all the drivers, at least for Wednesday&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/onic-player\/id6747436925?ppid=49bb71e2-4823-448e-b0e8-311158962de3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/68da98f76f434.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All Live95 News via Getty Images The annual celebration brings thousands of students from Castletroy into the city,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,19,17,3006,3009,3005,3008,3007,3010],"class_list":{"0":"post-175726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-limerick-radio","13":"tag-limerick-today","14":"tag-limericks-live95fm","15":"tag-live-95","16":"tag-live95fm","17":"tag-live95fm-homepage"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115533533996416730","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}