http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/opinion/Interactive-Taxi-restrictions-put-public.6251247.jp

IN REPORTING the jailing of a drug-fuelled sex attacker who was pretending to be a "taxi driver", you quote Lady Smith saying: "What she needed was a licensed taxi to uplift her and take her safely back to the hostel where she was staying. What she did not need was the nightmare experience which followed" (News, April 20).

This case proves that as far back as February 2009 the council was well aware of the difficulty of hailing a licensed taxi at peak times and the vulnerable position this puts the public in.

Yet since then, the council has refused 92 taxi licences to those who want to provide the improved service at these times the public deserves.

The council is even defending its refusal to grant licences in court, despite the real concerns this and other cases raise about public safety because of its artificial restriction.

How can any local authority possibly claim to be discharging its public duty to ensure public safety unless and until it has done everything it can?




Do we have to wait until a vulnerable female is murdered?

Lady Smith writes:

"What she needed was a licensed taxi to uplift her and take her safely back to the hostel where she was staying. What she did not need was the nightmare experience which followed" (News, April 20).


Lady Smith doesn't seem to agree with you Dougie.

Restriction equals Nightmare Experience!!!

where does it say that a lack of licenced vehicles was partly to blame for this attack? Skull body swerve this one! Jim is way wrong and he is showing himself up.

How can any local authority possibly claim to be discharging its public duty to ensure public safety unless and until it has done everything it can?

Jim Taylor writes:




The council restricts licence, do they not?

Keep taking the pills, Dougie.

Too many taxis on the road, but still Matt Lucas wants even more on the road! It's time to stop these carpetbaggers, before it's too late!

Or will it take the murder of a vulnerable taxi driver?


NB. Post written after attending "The James Barclay Taylor School of Scaremongering"

Regards

"What she needed was a licensed taxi to uplift her and take her safely back to the hostel where she was staying”.

Total rubbishmongering, your idiology is 100 percent selfish personal crap. The reason sexual predator are praying on the vulenrable is because of CHANCE and CONFUSION!!! Our council should be creating awareness of what is a safe vehicle to approach. PRIVATE HIRE CARS should be anonomous!!! By allowing external plating and signage of PHC the council are creating confusion. Maybe we the Black trade should be the ones who carry external signage? Something like; APPROACHABLE for HIRE. Jim to say that another 92 plates would have stopped this attack happening is vain and naïve, this attack was oppertunist (chance) and would have happened no matter how many Taxi's where operating. Someone out to commit this kind of attack just has to sit and wait for the oppertunity. Jim go and re-value your worth to yourself never mind the trade.

No one is claiming the cap on plates caused the rape of this young woman, but without a doubt, it is contributing factor.
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Carpetbagger YOU ARE HAVING A LAUGH mate, what have YOU done with the GIFTED plate you got recently for £1205??????
It's CARPETBAGGERS like you that are [edited by admin] the trade

Carpetbagger YOU ARE HAVING A LAUGH mate, what have YOU done with the GIFTED plate you got recently for £1205??????
It's CARPETBAGGERS like you that are [edited by admin] the trade

sold for 35k i heard, to a portobello garage.

i thought you were against all this clegy
pot kettle black