Councillor Howard Moscoe is proposing a bylaw that would prohibit airport limousines located in the suburbs to come into Toronto and pick up fares.
Toronto cab drivers are applauding the move because they say outside companies are stealing their high-paying fares.
City taxi drivers say they are missing out on many of the $50 trips from downtown to Pearson International.
"That's the cream," said Jim Bell, of Diamond Taxi. "We're tired of living with skim milk. The cream is going to these outside-of-Toronto companies."
Local drivers say a bylaw protecting their turf is long overdue. They say the legislation would earn them an extra $250 each week.
"It's been simmering under the skin, smarting under the skin, of every cab owner and driver in the city of Toronto," Moscoe says of the present situation.
"They've been treated unfairly."
Currently, airport limousines regularly travel into Toronto to drop off and pick up fares.
Moscoe wants a law that says even if those companies are called, they can't pick up passengers in Toronto.
Drivers and taxi companies located outside Toronto are skeptical that such a law can be created.
If the bylaw passes, it would still need approval from the Ontario government.
Moscoe, meanwhile, says those who want to be dropped off or picked up at the airport in a limousine can call one of the 400 companies in Toronto that offer the luxury vehicles.
With a report from CTV's Desmond Brown
