As someone who often gets paid to write government bafflegab for a living, I am here to tell you: this information is not confusing by accident. It is confusing on purpose. It is confusing for a reason.
It is confusing by design.
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GoFundMe set up for slain cabbie Christopher Jung: “funny, gregarious, kind, adventurous, loving man”
Read MoreFive years after his own personal Motion at Council enabled Uber to enter the ground transportation market in Toronto, Mayor John Tory appears to be conceding that mistakes were made.
At the November 10 online meeting of Toronto Council, Tory voted in favour of pausing the issuance of new licenses to drivers for hire until the training program mandated by Council in 2019 is implemented.
“As I have heard people mention here tonight, this is about safety,” Tory explained.
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During the online meeting of Toronto Council held November 10th, Councillor Gord Perks made a stunning admission which appeared to confirm the worst fears of Toronto’s entire Taxi industry.
Perks detailed some of the motivations and actions which occurred when Toronto Council voted to permit ride hailing companies to operate with a set of rules which were different and more lenient than those mandated for Taxis.
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Toronto Council voted to direct staff to stop issuing licenses to vehicle for hire drivers until a training program is in place.
The motion, put forward and subsequently amended by Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam passed by a vote of 22-3 with only Councillors Colle, Holyday and Minnan-Wong voting against it.
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“We have tons of steel being operated on busy streets, approaching curbside, responding to communication devices, attending to strangers in the backseat, assisting with mobility devices, navigating traffic and congestion.
“That is the nightmare we’re living in this city right now. But drivers are making money doing those things, and they should be trained.”
Read More People who want to make money driving vehicles for a living should be trained to do so safely, says Kristine Hubbard, and it was a mistake for Toronto to have cancelled driver training in 2016.
“The training requirement we’re talking about today was voted on by the council in 2019, in response to multiple fatalities caused by rideshare drivers who were licensed without training. We’re calling for this training to be implemented before any other drivers are licensed. This is what our community wants to see,” Hubbard, who is Operations Manager at Beck Taxi, told a video-conference meeting of the General License and Standards Committee on October 20, 2021.
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Seven months ahead of the June, 2022 provincial election, Premier Doug Ford has announced that the Bradford Bypass will be fully funded.
The Bradford Bypass is a new four-lane freeway connecting Highway 400 and Highway 404 in Simcoe County and York Region. This new corridor is expected to congestion on Highway 400 and existing east-west local roads. A Preliminary Design and environmental assessment in accordance with Ontario Regulation 697/21 for the project is currently underway and is expected to be completed by December 2022.
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RWN posed these questions to truckers about Ontario’s vaccine passport: have you gotten it? Do you plan to get it? Do you plan to ignore the fact that it exists? How are you managing?
In a total of 40 responses, only two drivers replied that they planned to get the vaccine passport, including one who said “I believe I’m going to have to get it in order to do my job because I cross the border. From what I understand Biden will be insisting we get it as of January.”
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