I've just had it confirmed that the committee have gone for a £25,000 survey. To be paid for by the 80 odd HC plate holders. They didn't even vote for the option of making any new plates WAVs.
You may like to know that also a fair degree of scare mongering was put forward by the likes of the T&G
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and the NTA
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According to the NTA man, most of Peterborough's cab trade are on benefits following their ending of quotas. And the buffoon from the T&G ranted on about Edinburgh in the 1990s again.
Mr T&G, although not a friend of 'managed growth' according to his letter, said he would welcome some extra plates, but not many.
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But he wanted to put a few conditions on them, but as is par for the course for that shower of [edited by admin], didn't want them to apply to himself.
He wanted any new plates to only go to drivers with 5 years experience, they must be on a firm, they mustn't do school runs, or contract WAV work, the council would have to be presented with a business plan, and the driver would have to be CCJ free.
But maybe what best sums up as to why councils aren't best placed to decide these issues is;
1) a deaf councillor who couldn't vote because his hearing aid wasn't working, and
2) two councillors who just happen to be directors of the local bus firm, voting for no more taxis.
You couldn't make it up.
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