“We’re looking at more and more ways we can partner for public transit in Canada. Fundamentally we believe that public transit and ride-sharing are complementary, that together we can get people out of their personal cars.” Larger Canadian cities are considering following Innisfil’s lead. The residential base there probably isn’t quite (dense enough for conventional public transportation), yet they need some sort of transit service,” Keating said. To some policy-makers, the idea of public transit agencies partnering with ride-hailing or taxi services to replace regular transit trips is a fundamental contradiction. “The ‘public’ in public transit is destroyed when public transit agencies start subsidizing private automobile use,” Mihevc said.

Source: thestar April 16, 2018 00:00 UTC