An article in the Wall Street Journal titled “Uber, Taxis engage in French Street Fight” (30 December 2013) describes a proposal to impose a 15 minute delay between the online order and pickup by online by limo service companies like Uber in France. This delay doubles the usual time for pickup for such companies and is intended to help taxicabs with medallions plying in France. The taxicab companies complain that they have more restrictions and that online taxi companies need to face some restrictions in turn. Will a 15 minute imposed delay provide the kind of competition that will help customers ? Are there alternative restrictions, such as caps on surge pricing that may benefit customers and moderate capacity levels across online and street hailed cabs ?