As an addendum, here's a taxi driver who was caught on video refusing to take someone to the neighboring city of New Westminster. https://globalnews.ca/news/39

As an addendum, here's a taxi driver who was caught on video refusing to take someone to the neighboring city of New Westminster. https://globalnews.ca/news/3907475/taxi-driver-refuses-to-drive-man-home-because-new-westminster-is-too-far/ https://globalnews.ca/news/3907475/taxi-driver-refuses-to-dr... The British Columbian government recently 'legalized' ride-share. They were elected in 2016 on a promise to legalize ride-share, but taxi-industry money bought a 2 year delay in the legislation. You can't ride-share yet, though, because taxi-industry money also bought an additional 1 year delay in deployment of ride-share-compatible car insurance, which won't be available until late 2019, 3 years after the government promised, and 5 years after the previous government proposed legalizing it. But don't get your hope up yet, though, because 1. we don't know what the ride-share-compatible insurance will look like. In Manitoba, another province with government-owned car insurance monopoly, the ride-share insurance was crafted to make it impossible for Uber and Lyft to enter the market. Ride-share companies quite reasonably want their drivers to be able to get a separate rate between when they are driving privately vs when they are driving for ride-share, just like what they can get from private insurers. Manitoba's government monopoly wasn't willing to give them that, which makes ride-share unworkable. 2. the government's 'legalization' legislation enables a public commission to set supply limits on taxis and ride-share, much like medallions. This almost completely nullifies any benefit ride-share would bring to the city and is a poison-pill that will probably keep Uber out of Vancouver. So on top of the 5 years we'll have been waiting by fall 2019, figure in another 2 or 3 years for everyone to realize that the legislation is a bust and that we've been suckered by the taxi lobby again. The taxi-industry's lobbying money has been very well spent.