City of Vancouver recently placed a six-month moratorium on issuing new licenses – The popular ride-for-hire app company Uber set up a hiring fair in a Vancouver hotel Tuesday, offering a $40 incentive for applicants. Having been run out of Vancouver by the province two years ago, Uber has been clear that it intends to get back on the city’s roads. In some other cities, the company has simply begun operating before being granted any authorization, banking on public support to win over eventual approval.
“I know they’re getting set up,” Vancouver Coun. Geoff Meggs told CBC News. “But what’s happened elsewhere is that they start operations and then various authorities decide what to do.” Here, the city says it wants to study the potential impacts the car hire service might have, in advance.
CBC News – October 14, 2014.
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