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July 25, 2014 - 1:06 PM
VANCOUVER - If you're feeling queasy, step away from the cab.
That's the advice from taxi drivers across British Columbia after the province's Passenger Transportation Board approved a new fee.
It allows drivers and companies to charge a $75 fine, on top of the flag fare, to passengers who soil or damage the interior of a vehicle with bodily fluids or solids.
Drivers have always been permitted to charge for the cost of cleaning vomit — or any other nasty substance — from cabs, but the new rule sets a specific rate, giving cabbies and their companies more certainty about how to handle spewing patrons.
Calgary City Council imposed a $100 charge on vomiting passengers earlier this week.
A $25 fee is charged in Toronto, after councillors approved it in February.
News from © The Canadian Press, 2014