The minimum fare is set to go up from £2.60 to £3 from April 1, after cabbies pleaded with the council to help them meet spiralling costs.

Is 2009 really the year to put cab fares up 15%?

I really do give up with this trade......if fares are increased or assessed on an annual basis this kind of thing wouldnt happen, experience tells me very often its the trade itself that doesnt push for the increase.

Also isnt it more advisable to have the fares increased say a couple of months before Xmas? It's busier than January and the public get used to it.

CC

Look, you could agree a formula with the council, and then program the meters to give you, say, a 3% rise year on year on any date of your choosing.

A few years ago a formula was agreed with Edinburgh council, but they never honoured it.

Now we get a 7% rise, 3 years late heading ar*e over tit into a recession.


You couldn't make it up

But alot of the social service work is tendered for and has little real relation to metered work. (down here anyway)

True.....but councillors on occasion hire taxis

CC

The way we're being shafted down here they probably ring PH, Mr Preece is always very obliging.

The ones getting a price cut will be happy as Larry not

With standardised prices across the zones, residents in Ascot will actually benefit from a fare decrease from £3 to £2.60 to come in line with the other zones.