Ride-hailing vehicles and taxis may have to have to share new loading zones.

The Winnipeg Parking Authority initially proposed a bylaw to establish new loading zones that would be reserved solely for ride-booking vehicles, such as Uber and Lyft, with a key goal to create safe spaces for drivers and riders to meet up.

On Thursday, council’s public works committee instead voted to let taxis use the spaces, too, pending city council approval.

The decision was made after members of the Winnipeg Community Taxi Association urged the committee to provide more “universal” access to the three proposed zones near Canada Life Centre arena and Burton Cummings Theatre.

There’s a cold-hearted thief in Winnipeg who won’t have cold feet.

Someone made off with more than 160 pairs of socks, to be donated to people in need, that were in Ashley Munro’s car, which was parked downtown Monday afternoon. They had smashed a window to get into the vehicle.

“The first thing (I thought) was ‘My socks are gone,’” said Munro. “I didn’t think of anything else in the car, it was just like, ‘Oh no, I got all these donations and now they’re gone’… it’s 164 pairs that could have gone to quite a few people.”

Munro, who volunteers with the St. Laurent branch of the Manitoba Métis Federation, had collected the socks from community members for Main Street Project’s Socktober campaign.