The B.C. Supreme Court has invalidated a bylaw passed by the City of Vancouver that imposed a fee on ride-hailing companies working on city streets during peak hours.

Uber Canada took the city to court over the bylaw, saying it overstepped a municipal government’s power to regulate “transportation network services.”

The bylaw banned ride-hailing vehicles from picking up or dropping off passengers in the fore of Vancouver between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. unless they had a “congestion and curbside management permit.”

The provincial government made the Passenger Transportation Board the “centralized authority” to regulate ride-hailing in 2019, but the city later imposed the bylaw, which Uber challenged in B.C. Supreme Court.

The court decision says the province made the changes to eliminate reg

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