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Ottawa police are investigating after two Blue Line taxis were vandalized in Barrhaven Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning.
Both taxis had windows smashed on all sides while other cars on the street were not damaged. There have been no arrests.
Police said one cab was on Mancini Way, but the address of the other vandalism wasn’t immediately available.
“Tensions are very high at the moment” in the Ottawa taxi industry as it wrestles with a series of contract disputes, said Hanif Patni, president of Coventry Connections, which owns Blue Line.
Patni said he had no idea who is responsible for the vandalism. But he said “this is what always worries me at a time like this. I am very concerned about this kind of thing.”
Airport Taxi drivers have rejected a deal that increases the fee they must pay each time they pick up a passenger at the airport. Cabs from companies that usually don’t serve the airport, such as Blue Line and Capital, are now picking up arriving passengers from the airport, which has upset the picketing Airport Taxi drivers.
In a separate dispute, some Capital Taxi drivers have been cut off from Coventry’s dispatching service. They are withholding monthly fees they pay for dispatch services.
Blue Line drivers have settled with Coventry after a dispute earlier in the summer.
All the drivers are members of the same union, Unifor.
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Both taxis had windows smashed on all sides while other cars on the street were not damaged. There have been no arrests.
Police said one cab was on Mancini Way, but the address of the other vandalism wasn’t immediately available.
“Tensions are very high at the moment” in the Ottawa taxi industry as it wrestles with a series of contract disputes, said Hanif Patni, president of Coventry Connections, which owns Blue Line.
Patni said he had no idea who is responsible for the vandalism. But he said “this is what always worries me at a time like this. I am very concerned about this kind of thing.”
Airport Taxi drivers have rejected a deal that increases the fee they must pay each time they pick up a passenger at the airport. Cabs from companies that usually don’t serve the airport, such as Blue Line and Capital, are now picking up arriving passengers from the airport, which has upset the picketing Airport Taxi drivers.
In a separate dispute, some Capital Taxi drivers have been cut off from Coventry’s dispatching service. They are withholding monthly fees they pay for dispatch services.
Blue Line drivers have settled with Coventry after a dispute earlier in the summer.
All the drivers are members of the same union, Unifor.
tspears@ottawacitizen.com
twitter.com/TomSpears1
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