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Originally Posted by Poster
Why are you all so upset about the cost of service? should the taxi drivers work for free?
I also don't understand why the Taxi drivers are so upset about Uber. I get why the taxi owners are but as a driver it should only be about "which way can I make more money" ... if Taxi works doesn't cut it, be an Uber driver. If you cant compete, then find some other form of work.
But lets stop driving everything into the toilet. Pay a fair price for fair work and stop expecting everything to be cheaper!
You can have cheap, fast and quality but only 2 at the same time. choose accordingly.
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Other posters have mentioned it, but the major issue with taxis is the licensing system.
You have insanely priced licenses in extremely limited numbers. The average driver does not own their license anymore. So you have a system where driver's have to pay a fee to a rich guy, who does no actual work. All he does is finance a license, which is an entirely artificial creation.
This is why the current taxi system is flawed and archaic. The system should consist of drivers being paid for their labour, not a group of license owners getting richer at the expense of drivers and customers.
Other services provided by taxi companies, like dispatch, are equally archaic. Most taxi companies are using apps now anyways.
Currently taxi licenses cost $100,000 in Calgary, which is doable for an average person. So the above argument isn't quite so applicable. However, in Vancouver the price is about $1,000,000.
It's a similar problem across many industries in Canada: Housing, fishing, dairy, etc... For whatever reason our governments cannot control the price of anything. So we have these insane bubbles where the governments are afraid to act, as they don't want to upset the people already in the market, who are heavily invested, or cause a collapse.