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| Author: | Brummie Cabbie [ Mon Sep 08, 2008 11:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Removing Grilles Puts Lives At Risk Say Coventry Taxi Driver |
Removing Grilles Puts Lives At Risk Say Coventry Taxi Drivers 8th September 2008 Taxi drivers in Coventry fear for their lives because red tape is forcing them to remove safety grilles from their cars. Cabbies say they will be left exposed to a nightly barrage of violence and threats without the metal safety barriers. Some drivers who have already been victims of crime are refusing to work after dark and others are not prepared to remove the modification which Coventry City Council says is illegal without permission from its planning department. Bhajen Nagra, aged 57, from Foleshill, is one of the first drivers to have his grille removed after he was stopped by a council reinforcement officer. He said: "I am not happy at all and don't want to go out at night to work because I don't feel safe, but I have a family to support and bills to pay. "Just last Saturday I had an incident when I was asked to take a man to Nuneaton. "On the way he became violent and I tried to stop but he put his hand through the grille and tried to grab my neck. Luckily the grille stopped him, but this is the kind of thing we are going to be exposed to now. It is frightening and I don't understand why we have to remove them." Self-employed Hackney carriage driver Ken Roberts has been attacked on a number of occasions and says the safety grille saved his life when he was targeted by a man with a knife. The 64-year-old father-of-three from Eastern Green, said: "The council wants us to remove our cages because they say it is against health and safety - if a cab is involved in an accident they are worried about passengers getting hurt - but what about the safety of the drivers? We are really angry about this. "This ridiculous measure will put lives at risk. If I hadn't had the grilles in my cab I wouldn't be here to tell the story." A spokesman for the city council, said: "We are not saying that vehicles can't have the grilles. We have to ensure that they are fitted correctly at the manufacturing stage. "We are investigating with LTI the manufacturer, which taxis have been fitted with the grille at the manufacturing stage, and any taxis that have had this modification afterwards will have to remove the grille." Source; Coventry Telegraph |
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| Author: | Darren63 [ Tue Sep 09, 2008 12:08 am ] |
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What a f'ing joke!!! I bet when you go into the council offices there is probably protection between the public and front line staff. Enforcement officers (or reinforcement as your article says  ) need to concentrate on more important things than this.
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| Author: | gusmac [ Tue Sep 09, 2008 12:19 am ] |
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t0$$ers |
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| Author: | Sussex [ Tue Sep 09, 2008 6:39 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Removing Grilles Puts Lives At Risk Say Coventry Taxi Dr |
Brummie Cabbie wrote: A spokesman for the city council, said: "We are not saying that vehicles can't have the grilles. We have to ensure that they are fitted correctly at the manufacturing stage.
Does this donk think drivers would put up iffy screens that could be pulled off easily? 
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| Author: | bloodnock [ Tue Sep 09, 2008 11:02 am ] |
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Are the type of People that get the Jobs of Quasi authority within Councils brought up in the real world....or do they hatch from some kind of Cocoon type larvae and just Develop into guilded butterflies as the sit at a council desk....its one scary Image. 
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