Taxi Rights .com a brief Introduction

Why was www.taxirights.com started?

  Taxi Rights .com was started as a response to the then Minister of Transport, Kevin Falcon's implementation of an unfair and biased Taxi Bill of Rights

According to interviews given by Mister Kevin Falcon, one of the reason he decided to act against the Vancouver Taxi Industry was because some girls approached him at a house party in Cloverdale, and complained to him that some taxi drivers in Vancouver hesitated in transporting them back to Cloverdale. This apparently was the primary reason for Kevin Falcon's zeal towards becoming anti-vancouver-cabbie. Did he want to be a hero? He took this war on a personal front, engaging media in his spare time to throw the book at the Vancouver Cabbies. There are bars and night clubs in Cloverdale you know. But these are slow, and do not have the same selection of talent as do the Vancouver Clubs. Also the cabbies in Vancouver would die for a $80+ trip to Cloverdale.

Thanks to, what we believe, was a misguided Kevin Falcon, The taxi bill of rights of BC was implemented. This taxi bill of rights was nothing more than an agreement between the Ministry of Transport and the BC Taxi Association based in Victoria. When a taxi driver is considered to have breached this bill (agreement), he is fined by the Passenger Transportation Board. There is no appeal or recourse under the agreement. However it is believed that a majority of this agreement violates human rights standards.

We do believe that there was some value in Kevin Falcon's misdirection. We will steer the ship so we all benefit.

However we are quite confident that the company manufacturing the stickers that are now a part of all Vancouver Taxi Cabs, would certainly like to thank the efforts of Mr. Kevin Falcon.