The Script wrote:
Gaz, why do you think a 1000+ fleet of hacks would stop the growth or invasion of PHC? You miss the point, you could have 2000+ hacks in Edinburgh but with any size of PHC fleet this gives the customer a choice. The glaring mistake that both cooperatives have made over the years is not to have their own PHC arm thereby giving customers a choice but keeping the profit and a degree of control.
I agree. I even supported the move to bring Ph into CRT. The proposal got shot down in flames by ignorant stupid taxi drivers, who couldn't see the writing on the wall. Oh and that was nearly twenty years ago.
As for the Hacks and their service to the public, there was never a single company that had enough cars, especially at peak times, to cover the work efficiently. And because CRT and City wouldn't work together to meet public demand, they started hemorrhaging work to the Ph. It wasn't long before Satellite ph companies started popping up all over the City, Leith, Gilmerton, Corstorphine, Longstone, Portobello and so on... This forced the hacks out of the suburbs and into the City Centre to work.
The above is partially why you have the situation you do now, with ECPH being awarded the Airport contract.
I hear where you are coming from, but I sat down with the then manager of CRT and explained what was happening, and he agreed. The trouble was that committees of both companies were working to protect their own interests by keeping City, and CRT divided. Oh and nothing has changed, if fact, it got worse because now City and CRT are working to expand ph interests, whether directly or indirectly, if you get my meaning.
I've sort o lost the point myself lol I think it was in relation to the airport point you expressed above and hacks losing out in the suburbs and I felt you sort of classed the airport as a suburb and my point was that the hacks had I felt made inroads in taking more work from the airport as opposed to losing it
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