The popularity of the Canada Line is just one of the many reasons that being a cab driver in Vancouver these days can be a money-losing affair.
I took a cab the other day, and as is my usual practice I asked the driver how business had been, particularly in the lead-up to the Olympics.
The answer was pretty much the same that I have got from 90 per cent of the cabs I have got into over the past year, but this particularly cabbie put it in a way that truly took me aback and forced me to type the quote into my blackberry:
“This is the worst slow-down in 15 years. I have never seen it this bad in all the time I have been driving.”
Stark statement. But unlike the predictions from those who preached about how the Olympics would be a boon to the local industry, this kind of an assessment is far from a surprise.
