Taxi service whiners
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Go to arrivals and jump in a taxi that just dropped someone off, they "can't" but they will.
The city is pandering to the owners of the taxi licenses. I am sure that these drivers feel like they are being pimped out via the license owners otherwise why would they become UBER drivers.
I feel sorry for anyone who recently paid thousands, maybe hundred of thousands, to purchase one of these licenses. Uber has greatly devalued the revenue stream from the license.
Free market is fine but you cant have one company free to do what it wants and all the others regulated
Toronto cabbies aren't exactly squeaky clean!
http://www.thestar.com/news/investigations/2013/02/05/assault_drunk_driving_death_threats_the_cab_drivers_the_city_cant_get_off_the_road.html
Wait, is putting a 'cap' on prices letting the free market decide?
To be fair, Uber, should have the same licensing and carry insurance etc the taxi driver's do. I for one, will not take Uber, because if they get into an accident with me in the car, and I become unable to work through handicap or other related thing, I want my carrier to have proper insurance so I can sue. Uber drivers don't have that.....
And, as bad as they may be, if cabbies assault someone or anything like that, at least they can be tracked. I am not sure how Uber does that.
Uber is a 50 billion dollar company. You sure they don't provide some insurance protection? The class action lawsuit against Uber in this province is about unlicensed drivers earning compensation, not about insurance.
It's a rigged system.
What you do is go to departures after your arrival, and grab a cheaper cab ride instead of an airport limo.
yep, ur observation is right! BUT this is only true when cabbies are driving empty or heading home at the end of their shift or looking for a place to go to take an aching massive crap.
Are you talkin Cab ride? from what I recall, it costs me like $70 from Manhattan to Newark !!
You people are just ignorant..... The city set up and regulates every facet of the taxi business. Did they fuck up? YEA! But they can't just abandon all the players who bought in to the system and played by the city's rules. The drivers aren't making any money, yet you all hate on them for trying. Sure , the speculators who own 10 plates maybe deserve to experience the fluctuations of plate market value, but what about the lowly driver who drove for 25 years to earn a plate. That plate is his only major asset and you want to let unregulated pirates come in and undercut him and destroy the value of his estate? The city should be sued by those poor suckers.
Just curious to know what regulations regular taxis are saddled with?
Cause just about every regular taxi I've ever been in has been a piece of shit on wheels. Usually, mechanically, they are fucking disasters. Engine lights on, ABS light on, bald tires, transmissions that don't shift, questionable brakes, completely unsafe. Then they are fucking filthy, the drivers are smelly, or talk on the phone whilest driving, or just plain rude assholes more often than not. They drive 20 km/hr when looking for a fare downtown, and 80 km/hr when they have one. They stop anywhere they like to pick up or discharge and the hell with you. They TRY to get in accidents by following you in your blindspot, or making you go around them and then pulling out when you do, or any other number of cab driver tricks. (Presumably so that they can get in an accident and sue your ass.) They break every rule in the highway traffic act from going through stops signs, to U turns to speeding, to just plain reckless driving.
So given all of the above, I'd love to know exactly how they are regulated and if there are regulations, then why are they not obeying them?
