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Originally Posted by heep223
Re: your analogy to development, it's not a perfect analogy but in general it's a fair point. But I just don't care. The problem has stagnated for far too long and the public sector can't handle it.
This is Calgary. We should hold high standards for our publicly elected officials just as we do in the private sector. We pride ourselves on cutting the the BS and getting things done (as Nenshi has said numerous times). They've been working on this for a year. If they can't get a deal done by sitting at a table with Uber and the insurance industry, I applaud the private sector coming in to shake things up and take advantage of an opportunity regardless.
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Regardless of one's feelings on the taxi industry as it stands or what reform has or hasn't happened, where is Uber's responsibility in this situation related to ride-sharing services? The City can't force Uber to do what it needs to do.
It seems very clear the City and the Mayor have been very open to enabling and the ball has been in Uber's court, no?
Naheed Nenshi @nenshi
@99spru @fusiliyyc well, Uber has known for many months what they need to do to fix. They are working on it, but chose to launch before done
Naheed Nenshi @nenshi 10h10 hours ago
@MoUsEsVloG uber has had years to solve the insurance gap that they are aware of and have been working on. They have not finished yet.
Again, I wouldn't dispute not enough has been done fast enough to fix the broken taxi system. It's not an easy knot to untangle due to the generations of layers of bad regulation, equity that's been created from a flawed licensing system (and therefore extremely expensive to dismantle buying out licences), etc.