Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport is being swarmed by unlicensed, underground taxi drivers for the companies Uber and Lyft, Broward County's aviation director complained. He wants them stopped.
They're taking up space in the public cellphone waiting lot, refusing to pay county fees and operating without the legally required licenses and permits, said Aviation Director Kent George, who warned that if the situation isn't rectified, "I will have anarchy on the curbs."
A Memorial Day weekend undercover operation at the airport netted dozens of violators; 102 citations were handed out to drivers.
George wants county commissioners this month, before their summer break, to "bring whatever action is necessary'' against Uber and Lyft, "to stop their operations at FLL,'' he wrote to County Administrator Bertha Henry in an internal memo.