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In conclusion of a 12-hour marathon meeting to hear the facts and figures presented by Toronto taxi industry representatives, the city’s licensing committee has decided to vote in favor to adopt majority of the recommendations made in a controversial staff report.
Chair of the committee, Cesar Palacio, mentioned later on Thursday night, that “the committee did the right thing,” while referencing to the committee’s decision to adopt the goal of making six per cent of Toronto taxi cabs, or 290, to be wheelchair accessible by 2015 in time for the city hosting the Pan Am Games. He mentioned that is a “travesty” that Toronto does not have any metered, on-demand, wheelchair-accessible taxicabs. In addition to that, the committee also permitted a request in staff proposals to allow drivers to charge a $25 “vomit” fee in case a passenger soils a cab, along with another recommendation to allow drivers to demand some customers to pay $25 up front, i.e. a measure adopted to curb fare jumpers. The report is expected to be presented to city council Feb. 19.
However, the committee did not endorse a key licensing proposals that would have made taxi ownership only possible for the cabs’ drivers. The recommendation was made to gradually put an end to the practice of absentee licence owners who rent their cabs through middlemen and brokers. A taxi driver and organizer who was present at the city hall on Thursday, in order to support for the licensing changes, Ali Tabrez Chaudhrey, alleged that “it is a disappointment” that they were not accepted.
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