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Originally Posted by Rerun
Ah... but thats Vancouver.... I said "another cab driver in Toronto"
Vancouver has one taxi per 1067 people (approx 4200 taxis)... where as Toronto has twice as many taxis as there is one for every 521 people (approx 10,700 taxis).
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The Vancovuer taxi market is a horrile and corrupt oligopoly system. There are a very limited number of licenses and people with licenses in suburb cities are not allowed to pick people out outside of their zone.
An individual license is now worth 1 million dollars. Drivers are forced to work for the license owners and pay them a rental fee. Meanwhile everytime they try to introduce new licesnses the existing license holders lobby the government not to. Picking up a cab at closing time in Vancouver is a nightmare, and much of the transit stops running before midnight.