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jammies · 11-12-2015, 02:58 AM

Oh yes, now I remember the great taxi debate in the last municipal election. I stand corrected. If only that guy whose name I don't remember hadn't been assassinated by the taxi thugs before his inevitable electoral victory!

Or, just because something is *an* issue, and people have complained about it, doesn't mean it's been an *important* issue. Nor, because a particular person finds it important, does that mean it's been all that important in the context of the entire city. Snow removal, tax rates, suburban sprawl, new LRT lines: these are issues that campaigns have revolved around. Taxis, not so much.

And once more, and hopefully for the last time, saying the city should have added more licenses is not proposing a solution. How many more licenses? How do they determine how many licenses? Why is it that the studies undertaken to determine how many licenses were needed were apparently so wrong? And finally, given that the system of granting licenses has one of its main purposes that taxis be driven by full time drivers, how can that be reconciled with extremely uneven demand?

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11-12-2015, 02:58 AM	#978
jammies Basement Chicken Choker Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: In a land without pants, or war, or want. But mostly we care about the pants. Exp:	Oh yes, now I remember the great taxi debate in the last municipal election. I stand corrected. If only that guy whose name I don't remember hadn't been assassinated by the taxi thugs before his inevitable electoral victory! Or, just because something is an issue, and people have complained about it, doesn't mean it's been an important issue. Nor, because a particular person finds it important, does that mean it's been all that important in the context of the entire city. Snow removal, tax rates, suburban sprawl, new LRT lines: these are issues that campaigns have revolved around. Taxis, not so much. And once more, and hopefully for the last time, saying the city should have added more licenses is not proposing a solution. How many more licenses? How do they determine how many licenses? Why is it that the studies undertaken to determine how many licenses were needed were apparently so wrong? And finally, given that the system of granting licenses has one of its main purposes that taxis be driven by full time drivers, how can that be reconciled with extremely uneven demand? Sent from my ASUS_Z00AD using Tapatalk __________________ Better educated sadness than oblivious joy.