Taxi Driver Online

And about time too.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/transport/Sto ... ?gusrc=rss

"Taxi drivers went to court last year in an attempt to get pedicabs outlawed, claiming they were breaching an 1869 act of parliament which gave black cabs a monopoly on soliciting for passengers on London's streets."

"But a high court judge threw out the challenge, ruling instead that a rickshaw amounted to a "stagecoach", and was legal as long as it charged individual fares for each passenger."

So does that mean I could bypass taxi/PH licensing in London by using a saloon car if I charge individual fares for each passenger?

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What do you mean about time? Them things are a shambles and need putting through the local crusher.

There is a further piece in the Standard.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/lond ... ?version=1

I think you could have done before the 1998 PH Act, which of course is what hapened.

The way the rickshaws get round it I believe is because they are not motorised vehicles.

Do not think they should be able to peddle their trade!.
Do the punters have to wear seat belts,Safety helmets,shin guards ect ect ect.
Does health and safety issues come into this rickshaw business?
Mind boggles

Ok

Here's one for u what about taxi bikes then, who licenses them?

Off to the pub now

See ya later

Eric

oh dear !!

you ought to jump in to one and ask him to take you to the airport! just to see the look on his face...

Nobody, in the same way that if you gave someone a piggy-back ride home they could pay you because you ain't a motorised vehicle, even though in the court case the judge called them stage-coaches.

Still £25 a mile makes them nearly as much as the Black Cabs night-rate.

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IDFIMH

wot

A motocycle is not a motorised vehicle

It is pal, and in London they take the likes of Carol Smiley, so who regulates them eh?

what you get to go between carol smileys legs? AND she pays YOU!! where do i sign?

But unless you have an engine stuck up your arse, you are not a motorised vehicle. Thus the piggy-back would be just fine.

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IDFIMH

Sorry, I don't know the details of the particular case, but presumably the stagecoach business relates to some old law, which presumably doesn't say that a stagecoach has to be motorised?

Presumably the PH legislation refers to motorisation, but does the older HC legislation do so?

Reading the summary in the newspaper (which can be misleading, I agree) the case seemed to be decided by the method of payment?

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IDFIMH

Hi

Stevo wrote:



the queue is long and hard pal.

Seriously though I saw an article recently about a company in sussex offering a Taxibike service, on a motorcycle, Virgin do it so does Addison Lee and Anderson Young, but no reference re this in any licensing information, are these illegal too?

eric