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Expect a long meeting on possible changes to Saskatoon’s taxi industry in September, but only one long meeting.

City council voted on Monday to have reports sent straight to council next month on different strategies to allow taxis to operate more flexibly in a transportation landscape that includes ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft.

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Council will bypass the usual process of considering items like this at a transportation committee meeting, to avoid the same speakers coming out to repeat the same messages at two separate meetings in the same month.

The transportation committee set aside an entire meeting in June to listen to concerns the taxi industry had with the introduction of ride sharing, but that meeting needed to be continued after it went longer than four hours.

In September, council is expected to hear back on further consultation regarding two proposals from the taxi industry on how to make the playing field more fair.