Winnipeg taxies will be running overnight Monday and into Tuesday, despite the city’s largest cab company threatening to pull all of its cars off the road Monday at 11:00 p.m.
It’s just the latest shot in an ongoing war with the taxi board over safety shields.
Unicity Taxi, which operates more than 230 cabs, sent a message late Monday afternoon to all of its operators, saying to have their vehicles parked at home by late Monday night.
Tuesday was to be the deadline for having protective, plastic shields in all cabs.
Duffys said it too would join Unicity in yanking its cars as part of the protest. But the Minister of Transportation, Steve Ashton, intervened, allowing cabs without shields to continue operating for now.
No word yet when any more discussions between the board and cab companies will continue.
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