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Toronto Licensing Warthog, Tracy Cook, announced today that Toronto Cab drivers will no longer be required to speak any English and Cabs will no longer be required to have snow tires during Winter. #FAIL
Relaxed rules for Toronto taxis
City council asked that Cook draft the regulations in September amid growing unrest from taxi drivers who said that Uber was threatening their livelihood.
In addition to introducing a new regulatory framework for services like Uber, the guidelines also remove many of the rules and regulations that were previously in effect for the taxi industry.
Notably, taxi drivers will no longer have to complete initial and refresher training programs to obtain and maintain a licence. Drivers will also no longer have to have a “command of the English language as a condition of licensing” or undergo CPR and First Aid training.
Several rules governing the types of vehicles that can be used as taxis have also been scrapped.
No longer will taxis have to be “low emission/hybrid vehicles” or be outfitted with winter tires. Instead, the city will only require that vehicles used as taxis have four doors and are no more than seven model years old, which is the same regulation that would apply to PTC’s.
The guidelines also give brokerages more flexibility when it comes to pricing, permitting taxi companies to offer rates that are discounted from the city-regulated fares to passengers who book their trip directly with them.
“These recommendations are enabling operation flexibility beyond what the taxi industry has had in the past,” Cook told reporters at city hall on Thursday. “Our goal here is to make it easier to operate and not be the regulatory burden that the taxi industry has had.”
Full debacle is here: http://www.cp24.com/news/city-propos...axis-1.2849014
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