A pilot program called Winnipeg Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle is a taxi booking service, which helps to reduce wait times may become a permanent city transit service.
Winnipeg city council's public works committee will consider proposals to hike taxi rates, implement an on-request transit service and purchase $33 million worth of zero-emission buses.
Loretta Caribou is from Mathias Colomb Cree Nation, but was in the city visiting her niece on Feb. 15. She requested a Unicity taxi take her to her hotel. She says after driving a couple of blocks the driver stopped the car and demanded she give him $10 in cash or get out.
Taxi drivers who engage in inappropriate conduct while on the job could find themselves facing new penalties under a proposed change to the vehicle for hire by-law.