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Taxi Strikes Across Europe Protest Uber App

Published June 11, 2014 at 12:45 PM CDT
Roads are snarled on June 11 in London as taxi drivers stop their black cabs, blocking the street to protest over new technology they say endangers passengers. The strike action by taxi drivers hit many European cities, Wednesday, sparked by fears about the growing upheaval in the travel and transport industry, largely due to digital technologies like Uber. (Sang Tan/AP Photo)
Roads are snarled on June 11 in London as taxi drivers stop their black cabs, blocking the street to protest over new technology they say endangers passengers. The strike action by taxi drivers hit many European cities, Wednesday, sparked by fears about the growing upheaval in the travel and transport industry, largely due to digital technologies like Uber. (Sang Tan/AP Photo)

City streets across Europe are jammed today as tens of thousands of taxi drivers block traffic. Cabbies in Madrid, Milan, Paris and London are protesting Uber, the smartphone app-based chauffeur service that they say is threatening their livelihood.

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