Limiting the number of taxi plates available never made sense. But councillors and officials lacked the courage to fix this error.
The city has regulated every imaginable aspect of the taxi industry since 1971 and it still does. While it is reasonable to expect the drivers be insured and licensed, the city thinks it’s city business to regulate the age of cars, the size of cars, the fares charged and, crucially, the number of taxi cabs on the road.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
Now, the taxi industry is suing because the city failed to protect the taxi monopoly after Uber arrived in 2014. In effect, the city is being sued not because the monopoly was stupid, but for failing to maintain the stupid monopoly. The city maintains that the situation is not its problem. That’s unconvincing. The city knew about it, could have fixed it, but didn’t. Further, it has continued to demand higher standards from taxis than it does from so-called ride-share drivers although there is no substantive difference between the two groups.
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