Comments on Calgary Rants: Taxi!

Interesting? have you ever thought of checking if ...

2010-02-03T11:52:39.979-07:00

Interesting? have you ever thought of checking if bigger companies are playing monopoly. Last year I was at the downtown bar and try call two major companies in Calgary but there line were busy, but when I came out of the bar there was line up of same companies taxis. I took one and complain about not picking up phone the caby mention to me I have been waiting for one hour for the trip and he also showed me his computer that how many taxi were in that area. It is clear to me that big companies don't care about customers and the blame easily goes to the driver and no one notice about companies. There are over 1300 taxis in Calgary now as Nicole mention above the drivers can work whatever hours they want it clearly tells me big companies do not mandate to bring there whole fleet out to cover busy working hours what that mean.

I was just at a company christmas party this weeke...

2009-12-19T20:53:23.982-07:00

I was just at a company christmas party this weekend in country hills. So it was 2am and I had tried to call for an hour trying to get a cab knowing it was time to go home but oh all I got was a busy signal. This is a complete joke! The CPS is cracking down on drinking and driving but what is going on with the cabs! I think that the city is making people drink and drive by limiting cab licenses. I ended up getting home at 5am now is that acceptable? I ended up starting my SUV and having a sleep. I would have loved for the CPS to try to hand me a DUI for sleeping in my running truck because I could not get a cab!

Ha, no insurance working here. I have to buy our c...

2009-11-23T16:29:19.671-07:00

Ha, no insurance working here. I have to buy our company insurance and part of the due diligence of the companies we work for is for them to ensure we have met the insurance requirements. These certificate with the notice and additionally insured is at no extra cost to the insured and usually can be received from your insurer in under one hour.
Each town and city should ensure that these commercial carriers have these minimums in place prior to issuing any licence. Again though I think the open market should be able to decide who will supply the service not the city.

Isn't it true that taxi drivers can work whate...

2009-11-20T09:52:11.562-07:00

Isn't it true that taxi drivers can work whatever hours they want and wherever in the city they want? That definitely doesn't help the issue...

Completely unrelated... has anyone noticed none of the taxis have phone numbers on them anymore? How do you tell drunk drivers to be responsible and take away one of the means for them to do so?

Hi Alt, thanks for the comment. I have been super...

2009-11-19T09:54:48.283-07:00

Hi Alt, thanks for the comment. I have been super busy and working on another project.. info to follow! Good points..I was referring to the Airdrie regulations about the insurance etc. I know Calgary has the systems in place to regulate this. (Do you work in the insurance industy? Your A.I comments were spot on!)

About time you got off the couch and posted someth...

2009-11-19T09:16:36.439-07:00

About time you got off the couch and posted something.
I think that the competetiveness of taxis would be good. You hit it on the head when you say that if the market is flooded that certain companies will not survive. This would mean that the best run, most efficient cabs would continue to operate based on supply and demand. With the databases available Insurances and Inspections would not be an issue and their licence could be suspended if they fail to meet this criteria. The city could insist they be listed on the insurance as additionally insured, and if there are changes or cancellations the city would be notified by the insurer. This is common bsuiness practice these days. It really is not as complicated as it seems, the city just needs to streamline their systems.