You know, some day a drunk driver is going to kill someone, and it will come out that he spent 40 minutes trying to get through to a cab dispatcher, and another hour waiting for a cab that never showed up, and then got in his car and drove. It won't excuse the drunk driving, but it will reveal how the low cap on taxi licenses in this city is putting people's lives in jeopardy.
When the province put in the new laws regarding 0.05 blood alcohol, Calgary's police chief went on record saying that anyone who has even two drinks should call a cab, which is a dramatic change in expectations. And yet there were no provisions made to increase the number of taxis available.
At some point government and regulators needs to pull their heads out of their rears and regard the taxi regulation as a public safety issue, not a small business issue.
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