Taxis. You see them everywhere and they’re an inescapable part of the local transportation system.

You hop in a cab when it’s raining and you’re in a rush to get to your next meeting a few miles away. You (hopefully) call a taxi after a night out partying and you’re in no condition to drive.

You may not think of them every day, but taxis are essential to any region’s transportation network.

But all is not well right now in taxi-land.

I recently had the chance to speak to Roger, a Toronto independent taxicab owner, about a legal battle between the City of Toronto and the city’s airport taxi operators, and the role of the Toronto Taxi Industry Association in that battle.

While Toronto’s taxi battle is taking place in the courts, far away from the sight of most people in the city that use cabs every day, the ramifications of the eventual ruling will have an impact on all of us.

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