400 delusional kvetches can't be wrong
"Why do we create a regulated cartel to charge high prices and control and reduce supply. Whose interest is that in?" asks Barry Prentice in a Martin Cash piece on another round of taxi fare increases.
Of course it is in the interest of a whingy protectionist racket known as the Winnipeg taxicab "industry," who dress their rent-seeking greed in pretenses of fairness. "It's a tough market out there," they will say. Yes, when taxis are rendered so inefficient by regulation, that their best business comes from fares paid for by EIA or the WRHA, then I can see why it's tough being a cabbie: because willing consumers are tired of standing on street corners or in vestibules, waiting for a cab they called 30 minutes earlier.
Of course it is in the interest of a whingy protectionist racket known as the Winnipeg taxicab "industry," who dress their rent-seeking greed in pretenses of fairness. "It's a tough market out there," they will say. Yes, when taxis are rendered so inefficient by regulation, that their best business comes from fares paid for by EIA or the WRHA, then I can see why it's tough being a cabbie: because willing consumers are tired of standing on street corners or in vestibules, waiting for a cab they called 30 minutes earlier.
posted by The Rise and Sprawl at
10:10 PM
3 Comments:
Couldn't agree more. The incestuous relationship that exists between the Taxi owners and the board must, in the interests of we citizens, be dissolved. The owners benefit from having easy access to a large pool of immigrants that sees some of them to treat their drivers like slaves. Abolishing the current system and the self-serving Taxi-Board is in the best interests of all... all that is except the antiquated regulatory body and the owners oligopoly.
Maybe our new premier, unlike his predecessor, will be willing to introduce new legislation in this area that will give us the changes we really need? End the owners cabal now - AND - abolish the Taxi Board!
While I don't agree with you blanket statement about "regulators", I agree with reference to the TAXI board. It is acting like a cartel.
Something needs to change. Because the public good is no longer being protected.
I'd rather the taxi board stay and teach taxi cab drivers how to drive safely first.
The most reckless, dangerous drivers I've ever seen are taxis - as both a driver and a pedestrian.
To me, they pose no value to the city in their current form. They're a detriment, because they're barely capable of doing the job they're supposed to do (in no small part due to regulation, I admit).
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