Quote:
Originally Posted by PsYcNeT
This raises an interesting point. Why is livery overseen by municipalities rather than say, the Ministry Of Transportation, unlike Alberta Health overseeing the conflation above?
|
Alberta transportation does oversee transportation but for some reason left out "unscheduled passenger transportation" from the list of things it would regulate. It regulates driver licencing (the class 4 standard) and insurance requirements for vehicle registration. but is basically uninterested in taxis
If I were to guess, it goes back to the era when inter-municipal bus transportation was a big effort to regulate, inspect etc... and they really didn't have resources to also regulate the local taxi work of dozens of communities across Alberta
In the absence of Provincial regulation, The city of Calgary created it's taxi regulations. Calgary brought in their own vehicle inspection standards as the province does not require CVIPP inspections for "unscheduled passenger transportation"