“He wouldn’t turn the meter on.”

February 6, 2019 7:45 AM

The Winnipeg Women Ridesharing to Keep Each Other Safe: Non-profit, donation-run Ikwe Safe Rides is an alternative to taxis powered by Indigenous women.

“In my mind, it’s late at night, I don’t live in the best neighbourhood, and one of the first things that my mind goes to is, there’s no record of this ride. There isn’t a fare counted,” she told VICE.

“Right, like little things like that, where it’s like—never mind the price of it, or whether I’m being ripped off. It really is this little thing in the back of your mind being like, nobody will know where I went. There won’t even be a record.”

posted by poffin boffin (5 comments total)

I remember hearing about this project a few years ago. Sorry (but unsurprised) to hear that the formal taxi services are still unimproved and Ikwe Safe Rides' volunteer services are still needed. Glad to hear that they are trans & non-binary friendly too.

Winnipeg Facebook group offers safe rides to aboriginal women [CBC News- February 1st, 2016]
Woman in labour requests hospital ride from Facebook group to avoid taking taxi [CBC News - April 17th 2017]
posted by Secret Sparrow at 8:29 AM on February 6, 2019

The statistics cited in the 1st article are horrifying.
posted by 80 Cats in a Dog Suit at 9:08 AM on February 6, 2019

The fact that this exists is great.

The fact that this exists is horrifying.
posted by jacquilynne at 9:18 AM on February 6, 2019 [11 favorites]

the fact that even women in labor feel the need to use such services is most horrifying of all.
posted by supermedusa at 9:54 AM on February 6, 2019

The statistics cited in the 1st article are horrifying.

Murderpeg
posted by JamesBay at 9:55 AM on February 6, 2019