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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.
Anyone who drives a vehicle for hire in Winnipeg could be subject to fines if they act inappropriately under bylaw changes proposed by the city.
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.