I could careless if they put rickshaws on the road. Normally i'm a person that favours regulation, but I'm flat out sick and tired of the taxi industry in this City and the way it is propped by council. I want to be able to A) Get a taxi when I want one B) Be able to get through to dispatch and C) Not have to role the dices as to whether the taxi driver will accept my fare or not depending upon which direction i'm going. Any other reasonably sized city in the World points A, B, and C are the standard. If A, B, and C were possible in Calgary, most wouldn't care if Uber was ever allowed in the Calgary marketplace. I don't want it because it's the shiny new toy, I want it because they City has completely failed it's citizens and, as it stands now, this is the only opportunity to rectify the problem. Without it, the City and the Taxi Companies will just continue with the status quo and continue to prop each other up.
Each and every weekend there are people in this City that can't get a cab that are straddling the line with being over the legal limit, that end up driving when they would have just jumped in a cab if one had been available. You can say it stupid decisions all you want (which it is), but that doesn't change the fact that it's happening.
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