In the past two months of being back in Toronto, I have grown to hate Toronto's taxis even more. There have been numerous occasions where they have either almost hit a biker or another pedestrian or myself. Here are just a few of the major issues that I have seen involving taxis.
Not too long ago, while I was biking to work, a taxi turned right, and cut off some pedestrians and I as we were crossing. If I had been going any faster, I would not have been able to stop in time and would have slammed right into the side of the taxi...
My first few weeks of being back in Toronto, as I was walking home and about to cross Richmond St., the taxi driver did not even bother stopping for his red-light, they just went on through and turned right... This is something that I find that taxi drivers tend to do most often throughout the city... Some may be unaware, but it is legal to turn right on a red-light in Toronto unless there is a sign explicitly stating that you can't turn right on red, but you have to treat the red-light like a stop sign and come to a full stop before proceeding to turn right.
It was the first weekend of June or last weekend of May, I can't really remember but I was driving down Queen St. and these two Beck taxis were driving side-by-side very slowly because the drivers were talking to each other while driving... Of all places to talk, they chose to talk while driving separate vehicles on Queen St...
Lastly, the worse one of all, I have seen taxis having dog fights on Spadina. The drivers would purposely try collide into the side each other's vehicle and dodge to avoid being hit. This is just straight up dumb, a wrong move and either taxi or both could have ended up on the side walk and injuring a pedestrian... If I see this happen again, I will post it on YouTube and link it here.
I have been itching to rant about Toronto's taxi drivers since the Toronto taxi drivers vs. Uber fiasco and their protest around the GTA where they drove around at 5 km/h and made traffic even worse for emergency service vehicles...
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