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During Uber’s first full year of operation in the city, ride-share trips totalled just over a third of the number of taxi trips taken in the city in 2017.

According to data provided by the City of Calgary, a total of 2,282,276 trips were taken with ride-share companies such as Uber in 2017. Taxi use, meanwhile, continued to decline, with 6,650,069 trips logged in the year, down from a total of 7,022,090 taxi trips in 2016, and 8,404,108 rides in 2014.

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Uber returned to Calgary in December 2016 after city council approved changes to the ride-share bylaw.

A spokesman for Uber said following its first full year of operations in Calgary, the company is “pleased to see that the combined number of taxi and ride-sharing trips has increased by over 25 per cent compared to the previous 12 months.”

“Thanks to new options like Uber, Calgarians have taken over 1.7 million more trips,” Xavier Van Chau said in a statement.