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Originally Posted by TheAlpineOracle
They've recommended more plates in the past and the taxi companies either ignore that or offer way less than what was proposed. Nothing but a publicity gesture. The City needs to be requiring the company to issue the amount of plates its recommends or face sanctions or penalties.
Also, it doesn't matter how many plates there are if the cars aren't out on the road. The City has often argued that it's not the number of plates that's the problem, but rather that there's not enough cars on the road at peak times. Well, an easy solution to that is more fines/sanctions if companies don't have X amount of cars on the road during peak times. I actually began to notice that once Uber was operational in Calgary that there were way more volume of taxis out on the streets between 11 pm and 3 am. Uber forced them to be out there. This changed almost instantly back to the way it was as soon as Uber suspended operations.
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Taxi companies don't issue plates, and all plates sold by the city have hundreds of people vying for them including the non-transferable plates. I agree with your second point about distribution.