Thursday, April 23, 2026

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Titanic Toronto Tourism Ground Transportation Perfect Storm

What if a FIFA tourist needs a WAV? This week I spoke with a Government Relations professional who dismissed my questions about Ontario’s current plan to take over regulation of Uber, Lyft and other app-based firms province-wide. “Doug Ford has

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Innisfil Uber scheme results in “Dis-economies of Scale”

It’s back to fixed routes (like busses) and set rates (like Taxis) Innisfil’s “Diseconomy of Scale” “With increased ridership, a rideshare-based system using relatively low-capacity vehicles, as Innisfil Transit does, runs into a situation resembling a diseconomy of scale, as

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Open letter to Doug Ford on “rideshare pilot”

Taxi operator translates disengenuous rhetoric on canard of a pilot Update April 6, 2026: This column has been updated since it was initially posted on April 5th with the addition of the point on Accessible vehicles. Here I am, on

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