Karma is fun, though. It's fun walking past the cab and town car aisles in the garage now (entirely empty, zero customers) and instead heading to the millennial cab stand to wait for an Uber/Lyft.
Why shouldn't a taxi be allowed to pick people up at the same place that friends/family would?
An Uber is, for all intents and purposes, a cab - not a friend.
I assure you, the SeaTac taxi lane existed long before Uber. This isn't some petty anti-Uber ruling.
Aside from the fact that the cab lane creates convenience, while the Uber area destroys it, there’s other reasons that apply to cabs and not Ubers. Cabs would just be slowly crawling through the arrivals area, hoping to get a client, and causing traffic. Ubers, in contrast, are there to find a specific passenger, just like family/friends, and have no incentive to slowly crawl through arrivals.
That sounds like Uber's problem. If they just got medallions, they too could queue up for curb-side pickup.
> Ubers, in contrast, are there to find a specific passenger, just like family/friends, and have no incentive to slowly crawl through arrivals.
Yes, they would absolutely be causing traffic. At most times of day, the arrivals lane is already at close to capacity. Throwing in a bunch of commercial traffic would be awful for the rest of us.
A private driver?