Ottawa taxi lawsuit finds City negligent in allowing Uber to operate in 2014
Ottawa taxi lawsuit finds City negligent in allowing Uber to operate in 2014
An Ontario Superior Court judge has ruled that the City of Ottawa was negligent in its enforcement of the city's taxi bylaw when it allowed Uber to begin operating in 2014, harming the city's established taxi industry.
"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."
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, FUCK TAXI COMPANIES
Don't be fooled, they're textbook playing the victim, if anything they're just pissed they didn't have the idea first to do what Uber/Lyft are doing
Last gasp of a shitty industry that needs to die.
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.
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.
Lol company taking advantage of customers in a monopoly outraged that another company was able to take advantage of them better and now it's not a monopoly. Not rushing to defend anyone here.
Yes they would also like to avoid regulations and not have to pay for their vehicles
That doesn’t justify the other side
That doesn’t justify the other side
Never said it did, but at the very least when Uber said they would have a car there, the car was there. When their app says it'll cost X for the ride, I paid X.
Too many cab experiences where a "Yea man, prob 20$" turned into a 60$ ride because "the meter says what the meter says". Too many cab experiences where a car was supposed to be at my location "in 15 minutes" an hour ago. Among other crap they pull
I cannot say one fucking thing nice about Uber. I attempted to sign up once. Needed to get home asap. Never got a welcome email. Never had my account activated or anything. I literally couldn't sign up. Ended up alling a taxi and got home.
Fast forward a few months...fucking Uber charges on my bank statement. What account? Doesn't exist. Tried forgot password...account doesn't exist. Tried to contact the 'company' tells me to login.
Banks refused because 'you signed up and we can't prove you didn't get the ride'.
Only Avenue I had was to find the dispatch for the drivers, and basically protest in the building preventing their drivers from getting help so I could speak to a human.
Fuck Uber to high hell. Taxis saved my ass and I've never once been fuxked by taxi (other then them not showing)
Don't be fooled, they're textbook playing the victim, if anything they're just pissed they didn't have the idea first to do what Uber/Lyft are doing
They still haven't really done it. Taxi apps that exist are mostly shit. They didn't want to have the idea first, they just wanted their status quo to persist indefinitely just like any other degenerate sector with an artificial supply constraint.
It's interesting to see what damages get awarded.
I still can't believe the taxi plate system is even a thing. If Uber and co can kill that concept at least I'll consider it a win.