Road design, safety and Vision Zero

[plam]

Airways Transit probably still operates but when I was travelling with 2 big bags and 2 small bags yesterday I used Waterloo Taxi ($130 plus [sigh] tip). The GO combination would have taken 2h15, which is fine in some situations, but I figured that after 24 hours of travel it would be nice to not be on the bus for an extra hour. Taxis should be able to accommodate that amount of stuff. Perhaps a minivan taxi.

Taxi's do, certainly a minivan, but while it might be legal, I'm not comfortable having a taxi driver drive my toddler up the 401 with no car seat.

As an aside, last time I took a taxi from the airport....before the UP...the driver started operating all their electronic equipment in the middle of the 427....and while I would have liked to have gotten out of the vehicle immediately I figured a distracted driver was better than standing in the middle of a 12 lane expressway. I did not tip.

I see that taxi drivers are exempt from the car-seat law, though at least Aeroport Taxi does provide them. The whole car seat thing makes cars more complicated, though maybe cars should be complicated in general. It sort of is unfortunate in that it makes non-owned cars in particular more complicated.