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Originally Posted by para transit fellow
Why is the livery services bylaw able to ticket the out of town handibus providers $1,500 for picking up their rural passengers (eg at the tom baker cancer centre) in Calgary and taking them home to airdrie/ cochrane/ chestermere/ high river/ carstairs/ strathmore etc.
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So I did a bit of digging:
Short answer is - yest it is an offence to provide vehicle for hire services in the City of Calgary without a valid subsisting licence to do so. If the vehicles is indeed a "Handi Bus" by definition of a bus then Livery Transport Services would not have any jurisdiction in terms of licensing.
The City has a service agreement in place with Cochrane, Strathmore and Okotoks that has been working within the restriction imposed - unlike the City of Airdrie who does have a bylaw and provisions preventing any other vehicle for hire coming into their city to provide services. Calgary's bylaw prohibits these service providers because of service standards (ie - is the driver qualified? is police clearance in place? does the vehicle meet the mechanical requirements of the bylaw? is the vehicle properly insured? etc).