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Ottawa taxi lawsuit finds City negligent in allowing Uber to operate in 2014 (ottawa.ctvnews.ca)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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"The evidence establishes that the City knew that its failure to properly enforce the 2012 Bylaw would likely cause harm to the taxi industry.

"A multinational giant was invading Ottawa, and because of the City's unpreparedness and its lack of efforts to develop a plan to enforce the 2012 Bylaw, the City's enforcement efforts against Uber drivers were ineffective."

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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It always seemed like taxi companies were mafia controlled or something. However, I am not sure the labor abuses by Uber has been any better.

They both suck.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Absolutely, but Uber/Lyft are very marginally better, mostly because all the old cabbie tricks (i.e. identifying non-local people and taking them the LONG way) don't work and when Uber tells you a car is on the way with a time frame they usually are accurate. Compared to some phone dispatch that just tells you a car is "just 10 minutes away" for 2 hours.

I'd like to see them both die off, but I'm perfectly happy seeing the taxi industry get their just desserts first.