With the holiday season, many of us are looking for safe options to get home.
Ride hailing is one option that hasn't made its way here. The NDP government has been promising ride hailing since they got into power, but now say they won't be bringing in the transportation regulations until fall of 2019.
Ian Tostenson, spokesperson for Ridesharing Now for BC, says with the new pot laws and changes in impaired driving legislation, now is the time to bring in ride sharing services.
"Consider the impact in cannabis, that the federal government has just changed our drinking and driving regulations, so they can pull you over for no reason, just pull you over and give you a breathalyzer test. So, I think it is really incumbent for our governments to step it up--the provincial government-- and get this thing going sooner rather than later."
Tostenson says legislation introduced last month by the BC governmen,t will just create an expanded taxi industry, not the ride hailing services that customers expect. He says his organization was expecting to see legislation that more closely matched the customer-driven supply and demand model that exists in other jurisdictions.