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by annapurna
3141 days ago
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With recent investments in both Lyft and Uber, it will be interesting to see how Lyft executes on it's international expansion. > John Zimmer, Lyft’s president and co-founder says 5,000 Torontonians downloaded the app this year with no service available. > Uber has become part of Toronto’s transportation scene, with almost 50,000 drivers — many part-time — and new services including food delivery. > Kristine Hubbard, Beck Taxi’s operations manager, expects Lyft’s entry to worsen Toronto gridlock. “It’s another reason to encourage cars to cruise the streets of our city — many of them who come from outside it — who otherwise wouldn’t be there.” |
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But Beck Taxi are also the face of everything that's wrong with taxis in Toronto, so most people here don't take their position very seriously, and they do not have much goodwill from the population (or from taxi operators in a lot of cases).
That said, in the last few months whenever I talk to my Uber driver about "how things are going", the majority of them complain about slowing business, and making less money and getting less rides..
It seems like, anecdotally speaking, the downtown area in particular is pretty saturated with drivers, and while this is great for riders (I almost never wait more than 2-3 minutes no matter where I am), it's probably less great for drivers.