Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Taxi industry news

CTA President Marc Andre Way provides very clear information in a Public Service Announcement shared with police and the public after reports of fake "Taxi drivers" scamming riders and stealing their credit card information. Photo: YouTube
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All Taxi drivers take cash, CTA President clarifies in PSA

Toronto scam involves man claiming his Taxi driver won’t accept cash “ALL Taxi drivers take cash,” says Marc Andre Way, President of the Canadian Taxi Association. “There are NO Taxi drivers that do not take cash.” In response to recent

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While early media reports said that a Beck Taxi had pinned a fare, in fact, it was not Beck and not a Taxi. A driver on a food delivery appears to have been pinned by his own vehicle. Photo: CityTV
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Not Beck, not a Taxi: man pinned by own car in laneway

On Monday, January 29, 2024, at approximately 7 p.m., police received a report of a Personal Injury collision involving a pedestrian in an alleyway in the Gerrard Street East and Broadview Avenue area. Early media reports claimed that a Beck Taxi fare

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Image of Taxis circling the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, supporting Farmers who are protesting government. Photo: Peter Sweden/Twitter
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Taxi drivers join Farmers to protest government in France

Swedish journalist Peter Imanuelsen continues to report on workers’ protests in Europe. In addition to the German Truckers who launched the protest (inspired by Canada’s Freedom Convoy in 2022), French Farmers and Truckers in several other nations have also taken

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Central Taxi has not seen a single Adverse Patient Outcome during the two years it has delivered service for Niagara's Taxi/EMS program. Photo: Taxi News
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Zero Adverse Patient Outcomes in Niagara’s Taxi/EMS service

New program saves $400,000, “improves patient experience” Two years after the program started, Taxi support for Niagara Region’s Emergency Medical Services (EMS) has functioned without a single Adverse Patient Outcome, says its founding commander. “It is not a statistic we

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77 per cent of Toronto's Accessible Taxi fleet will need to be replaced in 2024/25 simply to maintain current levels of service. Image: Taxi News Data: City of Toronto https://www.toronto.ca/data/mls/ssc/V00.html
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77 per cent of Accessible Taxis need to be replaced in 2024/25

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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