UberEATS expands delivery service in Toronto

Taxi drivers in the Canadian city were gathering at the City Hall to protest taxi app , which they say is stealing their business and flouting city bylaws.

Instead, he said he has personally had great conversations with cab drivers about Uber and about what it takes to become a cab driver in the city, and that's where the conversation needs to start.

A CBC journalist tweeted a 20-second video of a cab driver standing in front of a white sedan and blocking its path during the protest. "I noticed the mayor saying the protest is a safety issue; I think a bigger safety issue is the Uber model where the roads fill up with unregulated drivers doing multiple odd jobs for little pay". While Beck asked drivers several times not to participate in actions that would inconvenience Torontonians, many exercised their right to participate.

The UberX driver panicked and stepped on the gas in an attempt to evade the assailant, but the cab driver had different plans and clenched to the vehicle.

The row took place as taxi drivers were driving to City Hall to protest the vehicle service, which they claim is threatening their livelihoods by sidestepping the law.

One of Toronto's largest taxi companies said it urged its drivers not to inconvenience Torontonians with a citywide protest against Uber, but the drivers' anger "boiled over" on Wednesday.

"They're acting like bandits", Davis said.

The Taxi Workers' Association said the taxi driver's behavior was "unacceptable" but illustrates the frustration of its drivers.

The incident was called "frightening", and since then, Toronto Uber has spoken with both the Uber driver in question and the passenger involved.

"We have an illegal company dictating to the city how to operate their laws, and which laws they should enforce". UberX fares cost less than the average Toronto taxi fare, even after a reduction of $1 per ride was passed by council in late October. Consider Toronto a test market before Uber expands UberEATS to other markets. "Uber is ISIS. You know what ISIS means?"

Mughal did apologize for the disruptions protesters made Wednesday evening, but also said if the city does not meet the taxi industry's needs, protests will be much worse.