A weekend trip to Montreal came with an added $348 to the bill after Maddy Dever says they were forced to pay for a hotel room because there weren’t any accessible taxis in operating in the city. ottnews
Dever says they were told around 11 p.m. Sunday the wait for an accessible cab would be at least an hour—if one was available.
Accessibility activists say the incidents are far from unique; both Dever and Lifshitz added these latest delays aren’t the first time they’ve spent hours waiting for an accessible taxi. “Post COVID, many of the drivers have not come back to work,” Marc Andre Way, CEO of Coventry Connections, said. “A driver who is on an accessible plate has expenses that are far larger than one who is on a sedan or regular car. The initial purchase of the vehicle is double the price, the maintenance is double the price,” Way said.
“We are very lucky in Ottawa to have the most amount of accessible plates on cars in the entire country; however, more work needs to be done,” he added.
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