🍁 Toronto Caps Uber & Lyft Driver Licenses (& Vehicles), But Exempt ZEVs

Canada's largest city institutes Uber/Lyft driver license (& effectively vehicle) cap, with ZEV exemption. Capping driver licenses is noteworthy approach, we explain why it's complex for NYC TLC

Toronto, Canada’s largest city, is following in the footsteps of what NYC did in 2018. However, it might be taking it one step further with a Uber/Lyft driver’s license cap, in addition to a Uber/Lyft vehicle cap (we suppose capping driver licenses is how Toronto is effectively capping vehicles as well).

In a surprise Toronto City Council vote, Canada’s largest metropolis has frozen (at least until a report is issued next year) the issuance of *new* driver and for-hire vehicle licenses for Uber and Lyft. Prominent Canadian media sources report the cap as both a moratorium on new vehicles and on driver licenses (i.e., would be equivalent to the TLC Plate Cap and a TLC Driver’s License Cap 👀).

However, our reading of the passed Toronto City Council bill implies it’s more of a driver’s license cap that effectively caps Uber/Lyft vehicles, but since Toronto is not a City we know very well (i.e., terminology might be different), we wanted to share how their media frames it and also how we…