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Rideshare Driver, VP Rideshare Drivers Association of Ontario (RDAO), organizer, avid sock knitter.
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The Board of Trade is not a serious organization considering who was on their task force.
Who is it for? Executives who insist on driving downtown or the broader Toronto population? There's so much the Board of Trade could advocate for, but the task force was flawed from the start considering who they installed on it. Heavy on CEOs rather than people who dedicate their careers to studying traffic solutions, it included an executive from Uber, a company with a history of rolling roughshod over municipal regulations with a direct interest in getting people to choose them over, say, public transit. Studies also show companies such as Uber contribute to congestion by flooding the city with vehicles waiting for customers. The task force also included two executives of Purolator, a company that has been among the top parking violators in Toronto in the past.
March 2, 2025 at 1:40 AM