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Sussex
PostPosted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 9:21 pm 
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Are you expecting that people decide individually what is best for them or shall they leave it to the people they elected to make such decisions, locally of course :wink:

That's generally what happens in a democracy, but to answer your question it's both.

What you are not getting is the difference between a standard set by an elected council, and a restriction that no-one can meet.

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What if its the council that wants to restrict ? Maybe they dont want more vehicles in the town centres. They have suspended certain ranks in the town centre from midnight onwards as there were too many cabs on them from 12 till 5 am making noise close to nearby hotels!
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Are you expecting that people decide individually what is best for them or shall they leave it to the people they elected to make such decisions, locally of course :wink:

That's generally what happens in a democracy, but to answer your question it's both.

What you are not getting is the difference between a standard set by an elected council, and a restriction that no-one can meet.


Of course I get it but when restriction is based on such things as vehicle costs I prefer the restriction to be more straight forward

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What if its the council that wants to restrict ? Maybe they dont want more vehicles in the town centres. They have suspended certain ranks in the town centre from midnight onwards as there were too many cabs on them from 12 till 5 am making noise close to nearby hotels!

All the time PH are unrestricted it is completely pointless restricting taxis.

Same with drivers. What's better 1000 cabs with 2000 drivers or 1500 cabs with 1500 drivers?

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What if its the council that wants to restrict ? Maybe they dont want more vehicles in the town centres. They have suspended certain ranks in the town centre from midnight onwards as there were too many cabs on them from 12 till 5 am making noise close to nearby hotels!

All the time PH are unrestricted it is completely pointless restricting taxis.

Same with drivers. What's better 1000 cabs with 2000 drivers or 1500 cabs with 1500 drivers?


You lost 500 drivers :?

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You lost 500 drivers :?

I'm asking a question as to which is better for a local trade, to show it's not just all about the number of taxis.

It's either one or the other.

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You lost 500 drivers :?

I'm asking a question as to which is better for a local trade, to show it's not just all about the number of taxis.

It's either one or the other.



So why not 1000 cabs with 2000 drivers or 2000 cabs with 2500 drivers?

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What if its the council that wants to restrict ? Maybe they dont want more vehicles in the town centres. They have suspended certain ranks in the town centre from midnight onwards as there were too many cabs on them from 12 till 5 am making noise close to nearby hotels!

All the time PH are unrestricted it is completely pointless restricting taxis.

Same with drivers. What's better 1000 cabs with 2000 drivers or 1500 cabs with 1500 drivers?

I agree it would be better if they were restricted ! as for your other points the first would be better because the cabs would be double shifted, the second scenario of 1500 cabs is 500 more cabs than 1000 = too many cabs simples
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Well that was a completely wasted post!!


On the contrary, since you said nothing to doubt the substance and merely immaturely quoted the whole post just to add a few words then I suspect my points were bang on, irrespective of whether this mysterious vehicle dealer that you cited earlier was or wasn't Mr Pow and/or Allied Vehicles.

But presumably it was all meant to be said in secret anyway or you would have named names 8-[


Believe what you like about what you posted but why would there be a need to name names?


So why would there be a need to sound all mysterious about it? You'd need to ask Brummers that.

I assumed that because the most obvious course of action would have just been to say XYZ made the following points about restricted numbers then because he self-evidently chose not to name the retailer in question then there was an element of secrecy about it.
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So why would there be a need to sound all mysterious about it? You'd need to ask Brummers that.


I don't need to ask anybody I know who it is I was there

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So why would there be a need to sound all mysterious about it? You'd need to ask Brummers that.


I don't need to ask anybody I know who it is I was there


I wasn't talking about YOU Toots. Believe it or not not all the people reading this thread were there listening in. :lol:
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I agree it would be better if they were restricted ! as for your other points the first would be better because the cabs would be double shifted, the second scenario of 1500 cabs is 500 more cabs than 1000 = too many cabs simples


Yes, but as long as you're the owner and not the serf..er...jockey, eh? :wink:
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I wasn't talking about YOU Toots. Believe it or not not all the people reading this thread were there listening in


Sorry my mistake I thought you was replying to something I wrote

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I wasn't talking about YOU Toots. Believe it or not not all the people reading this thread were there listening in


Sorry my mistake I thought you was replying to something I wrote


Yes, I was :lol:
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I wasn't talking about YOU Toots. Believe it or not not all the people reading this thread were there listening in


Sorry my mistake I thought you was replying to something I wrote


Yes, I was :lol:


But not to me :?

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