Originally food trucks were not permitted on city streets.

Can you point to the legislation that allows food trucks to operate on city streets?

Only at courts and the food inspectors seemed to treat them different for permits (sound familiar?).

Not at all. The problem with the TNCs is that they want to be treated differently from the taxi industry and are leaving because even though we are treating them differently, we aren't quite giving them enough special treatment. This has never been a case of our city cracking down on them. First it was a case of our police applying the law to drivers that it without a doubt applied to. Then it was a case of our city writing special regulations for the TNCs to help them operate legally here, and now its a case of even more relaxation of regulations but the TNCs complaining. Fuck those guys.

Originally la Villita would not let truck near the place. Now they embrace them.

I'd like to see where you got this information from, where La Villita was able to keep trucks out, and what changed to let them come in. I know the city was preventing food trucks from operating in the downtown area for a long time, I don't remember seeing anything about that change though.

Interesting how people keep bringing up uber being a $4billion company. Is that actual cash value or the purported value?

It's valued at 40 Billion. Not 4 Billion. Also. You seem to be under the impression that Yellow Cab Company is one big national company. It is not. Yellow Cab Company of San Antonio is completely independent of any national operating company. It is it's own company and it is most certainly not even valued at 40 million, let alone billion.

It boils down to the cab companies losing some control and income.

It boils down to a heck of a lot more than that.

I imagine this is how the cable companies feel as computer streaming continues to gain traction.

More like the way record companies felt when Napster was all the rage.