And while those 20 or more traffic lights are a future project, in the here and now Councillor Pollard says his focus has been on taxi operators.
The last UDP Council focussed on organizing the taxi's into unions and charging a twenty dollar operators' fee for each cab driver across the 13 unions. Pollard says - following up on an election promise - the new council has cut that fee in half:…
Allan Pollard - City Councillor
"For me that's been most of my job dealing with the taxi people. Last week we've passed a resolution in the council to slash the current service fee in half, which was 20 dollars per month for each taxi. We slashed that and we brought it down to 10 dollars, so the taxi people they really appreciate it, they operators, the drivers, every appreciates it. So it's one stepping stone to getting where we want to be and that's what we campaigned on the platform, we met with a lot of taxi operators before elections and that was the concern from them and we're happy to address that."
Pollard says they can afford to half the fee because the traffic department's revenue has increased by 30%
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