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Originally Posted by peter12
Yeah, so if it was purely just about a convenient ride, then people would want the regulation. Except Uber doesn't do regulation because it would price them out.
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People would ordinarily want regulations, but the city has propped the corrupt taxi industry up for so long in this city and dragged their feet purposely, that people are saying to hell with regulation.
This kind of reminds me of the old Sunday Shopping debate they had back in the Maritimes when I lived there. Stores were not allowed to be open on Sunday. Finally, NB decides to get with the times and allows it to occur within certain hours (regulated by the province). Nova Scotia flat out still refuses despite this move by NB. Residents are getting pissed off, going to shop in NB on the weekend, and then Sobeys decides to say #### this, and opens anyways and tells the Province of Nova Scotia to go ahead and fine them, their profits on Sunday will more than pay the fine. This goes on for a few months, and than Nova Scotia has no choice to approve Sunday shopping.
This would have never happened if Sobeys hasn't said enough is enough, and all the people of Nova Scotia benefited, well except for the few small stores who had an inclusive Sunday market because they had a loophole which allowed them to be open.
Switch Uber for Sobeys, and you basically have the same story. I'm pretty pumped Uber has forced the City of Calgary's hand here. I would prefer regulation, but that wasn't going to happen unless someone held a gun to the city's head. Uber has now done that.