'A great victory for the industry': Taxi drivers celebrate ruling that found City of Ottawa negligent in allowing Uber to operate
ottawa.ctvnews.ca
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.”

  • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
    4·
    6 months ago

    Yes they would also like to avoid regulations and not have to pay for their vehicles

    That doesn’t justify the other side

    • cm0002@lemmy.world
      3·
      6 months ago

      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