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Airport says it's time to make 'emergency' taxi fare limits permanent

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For the past two years, Salt Lake City International Airport has declared price gouging by cabs there as an official emergency — so that it could use emergency powers to limit taxi fares within the city temporarily.

Now, Russ Pack, acting airport executive director, says it’s time to end a string of six-month-long emergency declarations and make those fare limits permanent.

AIRPORT FARE CAPS

$25 west of 500 East

$30 beyond that

No limit outside SLC limits

“The only change would be to make it permanent, instead of temporary,” he said during a meeting Wednesday of the airport advisory board.