The pilot scheme for taxi-sharing, which came into operation in Dublin this weekend, was pronounced a success by those who used it, but it has not solved the problems of the city's overstretched public transport system.
There were still hour-long queues at all the main taxi ranks not operating the share scheme at non-peak times this weekend.
And there were still thousands on Friday and Saturday night who abandoned the queues and walked towards home, occasionally stopping to hail private cars. Weekend revellers coming out of the city's clubs, bars and restaurants and on to the busy streets in dribs and drabs in typical seasonal weather of wind and rain were greeted, in some cases, by friendly and efficient Dublin Corporation marshals, shepherding people into small groups before their taxis took them north, south, east and west.
But others hurried briskly past the taxi-share scheme on St Stephen's Green North mistaking the group of marshals in heavy, luminous coats for gardai.
They eventually ended up at the regular rank at the top of Grafton Street with a wait of up to two hours ahead of them.
But the taxi-share scheme operating out of Foster Place was more streamlined. Here a queue of some of the city's larger, vantype, taxis waited for the gardai to wave them into Foster Place before pulling out a short time later for destinations across the city.
During off-peak hours, customers could expect five to 10 customers ahead of them in the Foster Place taxi-share queue. This was certainly a lot better than waiting at the ordinary taxi rank on College Green where as many as 70 people were standing.
While the marshals said they had approached customers at the College Green rank informing them of the taxi-share scheme, most stayed put, as if they had become so used to queueing that going home without waiting for at least an hour would just not have seemed right.
The fare system, to the three different zones radiating from the centre outwards, costs £3.50, £4.50 and £6.50 respectively. A journey to Drumcondra, from the city centre, for example, would normally cost an individual customer between £5.50 and £7. Under the taxishare scheme, the same journey would cost £10.50 for three people, £14 for four, or £17.50 for five.
At the ranks on St Stephen's Green, College Green, and Lower Abbey Street, people could expect to wait for at least an hour, if not longer, even during the off-peak hours.
But on Saturday during peak hours after the clubs closed at 2 a.m., even the queue at Foster Place looked close to 100 people.
So the traditional crush for taxis may have eased with cabsharing but the waiting still goes on, and on, and on . . . .