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Lawyers for Quebec taxi drivers, who say the province’s 2019 taxi reform amounted to a disguised expropriation, will ask the Supreme Court to hear the case after a Quebec appeals court overturned a decision awarding the drivers around $219 million in compensation.

The class-action lawsuit, which includes around 7,000 drivers, claims taxi permits had become a form of property and that when Quebec ended the permit system following ride-hailing company Uber’s arrival in the province, permit-holders should have been compensated the same way they would have been if the government had expropriated any other type of property.

The Quebec Court of Appeal ruled against the drivers in late March, finding that the permits weren’t true property and that as a result, the rules around expropriation didn’t apply.

“While a taxi owner’s permit clearly possesses characteristics of an item of property,” the three-judge panel wrote in its decision, “the court finds that they do not, however, confer a property right that could be subject to expropriation by the state in this case.”

Lawyers for the taxi drivers say they will now ask Canada’s highest court for permission to appeal the decision.

“There is no doubt that this is a disappointing and difficult decision. The people who are members of this class action are overwhelmingly elderly folks, older people who, for many of them, their taxi-owner permit was their retirement,” said Lex Gill, a lawyer with the firm Trudel, Johnston and Lespérance and one of several lawyers representing the drivers.

Before Quebec’s 2019 taxi reform, an operator’s permit was needed for each cab in the province, and while the government limited the number of permits in each region, it allowed drivers to resell them.

Source: The Gazette

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Up Against Uber and Lyft, Green Cabs Wither to Lowest-Ever Level in New York

While seated behind the wheel of his green cab at East 125th Street and Park Avenue, Bakary Kane recalled how optimistic he felt more than seven years ago when he became the owner of a so-called Boro Taxi. But with the number of green cab drivers sinking to its lowest level ever, Kane said he regularly must work seven days a week just to pay his bills.

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Driverless Taxis Make Their Debut on Chicago Streets

Chicago is beginning to see the future of transportation. Recently, driverless taxis have started appearing on city streets, catching people’s attention. They are sparking conversations about what travel might look like in the next decade. These cars are operated by Google’s Waymo and are currently in a testing phase. They drive around to study the roads and traffic, but they are not carrying passengers yet. 

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Seeing the Sky Full of Electric Air Taxis in Florida May Be a 'Little Further Down the Road'

Flying taxis may sound like a fantasy from a different universe, but it's no joke. The U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration recently announced the Advanced Air Mobility and eVTOL Integration Pilot Program. The goal is to speed up new aircraft technology in the country — with Florida being one of the lead states for these pilot programs.

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Fuel Surcharges Are Showing Up Everywhere — Here’s Where Canadians Are Paying More

Rising oil prices driven by conflict in the Middle East are starting to show up in more places than just the gas pump — and increasingly, in the cost of everyday services. According to analysis from RBC, higher energy prices tend to hit consumers quickly through fuel costs, while also gradually pushing up costs across the broader economy as businesses adjust pricing. 

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Water Shuttle Pilot Launching Along Downtown Toronto Waterfront This Summer

It’s being billed as “a new way to move across Toronto’s inner harbour” and it’s launching this summer. A pilot program is testing the feasibility of expanded water-based transit along the harbourfront, starting with an east-west shuttle covering a three-stop, four kilometre stretch of the city’s downtown waterfront in 30 minutes. Unlike the TTC’s Aqua Bus gag on April Fool’s day, the East-West Water Shuttle Pilot does in fact launch this June.

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Clamp Down on Bad Alberta Drivers Getting Licenses

It is music to my ears when I hear Devin Dreeshen, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s mince-no-words main man on all things transportation, say he was willing to try to tackle the epidemic of bad driving.

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What the UK's £4.6 Billion Auto Investment Means for Drivers

The UK automotive industry is on the edge of its biggest shift in a generation. New analysis from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders reveals that demand for British-built car components is set to rise by 80% by the end of the decade, representing a £4.6 billion opportunity for domestic manufacturing. Behind that figure sits a series of changes that will directly affect what cars are available to UK buyers, where they are built, and how they are serviced.

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Europe Could Ban Ford F-150, Silverado and Ram Trucks over New Rules

America’s most popular vehicles, the full-size pickup trucks from Ford, General Motors and Stellantis, may be banned from Europe in a move that has angered US carmakers. According to Financial Times, US automakers are accusing the European Union of planning to keep trucks like the Ford F-150, Chevrolet Silverado 1500 and Ram 1500 off European roads by enforcing new safety rules that would exempt them from the trade deal between the EU and the US.

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Event Venues Turn to Taxi Apps and Digital Hailing Tools to Manage Late-Night Crowd Departures

Large entertainment venues across the UK are increasingly partnering with taxi booking platforms and digital hailing technology to manage the surge of passengers leaving events late at night. Concert halls, arenas and theatres regularly release thousands of people within a short time window once performances end. For venue operators, coordinating onward transport has become a growing operational priority, particularly in city centres where congestion, limited parking and late public transport schedules can create bottlenecks.

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Case and LTA Launch New Accreditation Scheme, Raising Safety Standards in Car-Sharing Industry

Consumers renting from accredited car-sharing operators will soon have greater assurance of well-maintained and roadworthy vehicles by looking for the CaseTrust mark. This follows the launch of a new CaseTrust accreditation scheme for the car-sharing industry by the Consumers Association of Singapore (CASE) and the Land Transport Authority (LTA).

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Australia Urged to Swap Diesel for Electric Buses As Fuel Costs Soar

As diesel climbs past $3 a litre amid fuel security concerns, transport advocates are calling for the rollout of electric buses across Australia to be prioritised. In Australia, just 1% of buses are electric, compared with 80% of the urban fleet in China, a quarter in the Netherlands and 12% in the UK.

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SA’s First Electric Minibus Taxi to Start Operating in Cape Town

South Africa’s first electric minibus taxi, known as the eKamva, is set to begin operating in October 2026 in Cape Town’s Century City. The 15-seater vehicle can travel more than 200km on a single charge and takes approximately 75 minutes to fully recharge using a fast charger. It can also be charged overnight over a 10-hour period.

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Tada CEO Kay Woo (TADA)

For over a decade, ride-hailing has been led globally by industry heavyweights Uber, Lyft and Grab dominating the market by scale. With the pressure to finally turn profitable came steep commissions, which eventually placed the burden on both drivers and passengers.

Kay Woo, founder of blockchain-based ride-hailing startup Tada, says he believes that model is fundamentally broken, as drivers are being squeezed and users are paying more than they should.

“Here, Uber and Lyft are charging about 35 percent commission, or sometimes like 45 percent commission, and on top of that about 15 to 20 percent is tax, so if I paid $100 from Manhattan to (LaGuardia Airport in New York), drivers normally get about $40 or $45,” Woo said in a video interview with The Korea Herald, speaking from New York last week.

“So this is one of the reasons why I decided to provide our service in New York City.”

Since the startup launched its ride-hailing service on March 3, the Tada CEO and founder has been going to the LaGuardia Airport parking lot, where hundreds of ride-hailing drivers sit idle in a designated waiting area, eating meals and killing time, sometimes for two or three hours before receiving their next call.

“The system is completely broken but it’s actually very good for me to go there, talk to the drivers and explain about Tada and then everybody is open to join and they start downloading the app and submitting documentation,” he said.

According to Woo, about 300 new drivers a day on average have been signing up for Tada since last month, as the company presents a much more appealing option for drivers: no commissions.

Source: Korea Herald

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