| You should know that Translink (aka the South Coast British Columbia Transportation Authority) has nothing whatsoever to do with Taxi's. That's regulated at the provincial level. > quasi-government (sic) aka, the corporate structure used by participating municipalities to operate a unified public transportation system in a metropolitan area > heavily subsidized by taxpayers That's literally what the "public" part in "public transportation" means (gasp! that's socialism!) > and is still running in deficit Like every public transportation project everywhere? A valid and important criticism of Translink but at least a robot drives me to work on a monorail every day faster than I could drive there on empty roads, never mind in traffic. All of this is completely irrelevant to the actual story unless you think that Uber is in competition with public buses, but you don't seem that confused. > not shy to regulate it instead of looking out for consumers You've clearly never lived somewhere with a booming unregulated taxi market. Do you take things like not getting extorted, scammed, robbed or raped when jumping into a strangers car in the middle of the night for granted? You can thank the people regulating the taxi industry. Regulatory bodies, like any group of people given some power, public or private, will try to expand it's power base and will abuse that power but taxi regulation was brought about by people looking out for consumers. I think this decision in particular is outrageous protectionism but your take on things made me think an adult opinion was warranted. |