City of Toronto staff have laboured long and produced a body of recommendations to improve taxi service. The proposals seems to come in two parts — those effecting cab users and those that will impact drivers and big taxi companies Staff is suggesting that cab users be prepared to pay as much as $25 up front for a ride and that cabbies be authorized to demand a clean up charge if a passenger fouls the car with vomit or in some other way (too much information). It seems likely these rules are going to apply to fares picked up outside night clubs on Friday. Either way, it might be hard to identify and collect from someone who is sick in a cab. The second bundle of proposals deals with the time-honoured issue of taxi haves and have-nots. It’s a bit murky. The Globe and Mail makes a stab at explaining it here.
