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Originally Posted by para transit fellow
I find it interesting how everyone imagines the taxi industry contributing millions to the City coffers.
City of Calgary's Transportation Livery Services (TLS) is one of the City's few self-supporting business units. TLS exists to regulate the taxi industry and sets the annual fees to the taxi industry to pay for the effort. Total budget is under 3.8 million.
Take a look at the later pages of this recent document:
http://www.calgary.ca/CSPS/ABS/Docum...REDUCTIONS.pdf
From the budget projections in the document, it appears that the City nets about a quarter million a year from the taxi industry. |
thanks for that doc. To me it sorta proves the point.
The city is paying for 4m in costs by collecting 4m from the taxi industry. I would not bet those costs go down in line with fewer taxi trips or more ride sharing. They might even go up. But there will be ever fewer taxi fares to pay for it all.
You can bet the city is looking at a gap in the future. Over time a big one. It's an economic problem. In my opinion.