77 per cent of Toronto's Accessible Taxi fleet needed to be replaced by March 2026 simply to maintain past levels of service. This did not occur. Image: Taxi News Data: City of Toronto https://www.toronto.ca/data/mls/ssc/V00.html
More than three-quarters of the 577 Accessible Taxis currently working to serve Toronto will need to be replaced in 2024 and 2025. Figures published by the City of Toronto on January 6th indicate that only 577 of the licensed Accessible
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Two-thirds of Toronto's active Taxi vehicles will need to be replaced in 2024, a feat which will be "impossible" according to auto suppliers. Image: Taxi News
Chance of 1,787 new Taxis in 2024 is “Zero – absolutely impossible” say auto sales reps 1,787 Taxi owner/operators will need to purchase new vehicles to put on the road in 2024 if they plan to remain in business in
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Fraudsters counterfeiting vehicle safety certificates are confident enough to advertise on Facebook. Image: Facebook
A fraudster offering fake safety certificates to Uber and Lyft drivers on Facebook is fulfilling the predictions of Taxi industry members who suggested this when happen when Toronto shut down its own inspection garage. An individual called “Khalsa” has posted
Read MoreFirst emissions, now sexual assault: reality strikes again With dismay, I read holiday media reports that at least two women appear to have been sexually assaulted by a man posing as their Uber driver. Whether he actually IS a rideshare
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Artist's depiction of the person who might have stolen Lincoln's Taxicab on December 18th. Image: Google Images
“Happy Fricken’ Holidays!” Christmas Spirit must have been in short supply on December 18th, when a Beck Taxi driver got out of his cab to assist a senior woman and had his vehicle stolen. The 36-year veteran driver is known
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Purolator employees who refused to share their medical information with the corporation (90 per cent owned by Canada Post) were sent home without pay, and many were then fired. Photo: RWN
“Banning unvaccinated workers from the workplace after June 2022 did nothing fortheir safety and contributed nothing to the safety of the others working there” Purolator employees and Owner/Operators should be compensated for the damages they suffered when they were put
Read MorePurolator “unjustly terminated employment” Road Warrior News has obtained two memos from Teamsters Local Union Number 31, the British Columbia local which spearheaded the third successful grievance against Purolator Inc. Purolator, which is owned 91 per cent by the federal
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Earla Phillips and other members of Rideshare Drivers of Ontario held a press conference at Toronto City Hall on December 14th, 2023 to express their support for Toronto Council as it works to identify an improved system of licensing rideshare vehicles. Photo: RDAO
Mayor Olivia Chow’s compromise motion to lift the cap on rideshare vehicles until February passed at Toronto City Council late December 14th. Chow’s motion call for Licensing and Standards Director Carleton Grant to to “resume issuing vehicle-for-hire and private transportation
Read More“We’ve referred things to the Integrity Commissioner before, and the results are usually inconclusive,” Speaker Nunziata told Council Councillor Michael Thomas’s request for an investigation into the leak of confidential documents from Toronto’s Solicitor’s office got shut down quickly by
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