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TAXI CABS,

BUSSES

Drivers should be screened

Dear Editor:

During a time when public
transportation is more convenient
and more readily available than
ever before, we have let personal
safety slip out of our own hands,
and into those that are in control
of our destinations.

We place trust and faith in total

. strangers, only because they are
involved with, and work for a
system that we are led to believe is
there to benefit the public. Have
any of us questioned the qualifica-
tions of city bus drivers, taxi-cab
drivers, or any other controller of
public transportation?

Being a single, working female
without a means of personal
transportation, the public transit
system and taxi-cabs are the usual
forms of transportation to and
from work.

The recent rash of taxi-cab pas-
sengers, mostly females, that are
being attacked and assaulted, has
opened my eyes to see that I’m not
alone in what happened to myself.

After the experience of being
physically assaulted in a vicious
and degrading manner by a cab
driver representing the Yellow Cab
company here in Vancouver, my

‘trust and faith in this means of

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public transportation has been
shattered. Not only in reference to
the drivers, but also to the com-
panies that these people represent.

Obviously the Yellow Cab com-
pany does siot do a thorough
evaluation of their employees, and
in my case showed no concern for
the physica! or mental! anguish that
I obtained due to the attack from
one of their employees.

I strongly feel that there should
be tighter and more rigid inspec-
tions of drivers in all cities of
Canada.

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Is this the kind of thing that
visitors to Vancouver can expect
during their stay in our city? With
this kind of threat from the people
that will be dealing with visitors,
can we really risk not taking a
closer look into what can be done
to prevent events like this happen-
ing again.

For me it was too late, but let’s
stop it now before Vancouver
becomes another Chicago or
Detroit City.

Rosalind Neis
Vancouver

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