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 Post subject: london olympics
PostPosted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 9:00 pm 
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just reading about transport proposals for the olympics.
Found this gem tucked away. ................................................................................................Murtagh says the private minicab industry is worth more than £2b a year, and she wants the industry to be part of any Olympics bonanza. 'The government can't afford for the industry not to be working properly. We need to be clearly identified with corporate signage and give the same service [as black cabs].'

Ken Livingstone, it appears, is behind the private-hire industry in its campaign for equal access rights. Mark Watts, the Mayor's Policy Advisor for Transport and Air Quality, speaks on the Mayor's behalf of 'the important role that private care hire can play in sustainable transport, and in helping the disabled and elderly.'

Dawn Butler, MP for Brent South, talks about 'the good service' that private-hire cabs provide for her constituents and people from deprived communities who can rely on the fixed fee private cabs charge and who you can ask for their favourite drivers.


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 Post subject: Re: london olympics
PostPosted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 10:22 pm 
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taxiCABman wrote:
just reading about transport proposals for the olympics.
Found this gem tucked away. ................................................................................................Murtagh says the private minicab industry is worth more than £2b a year, and she wants the industry to be part of any Olympics bonanza. 'The government can't afford for the industry not to be working properly. We need to be clearly identified with corporate signage and give the same service [as black cabs].'

Ken Livingstone, it appears, is behind the private-hire industry in its campaign for equal access rights. Mark Watts, the Mayor's Policy Advisor for Transport and Air Quality, speaks on the Mayor's behalf of 'the important role that private care hire can play in sustainable transport, and in helping the disabled and elderly.'

Dawn Butler, MP for Brent South, talks about 'the good service' that private-hire cabs provide for her constituents and people from deprived communities who can rely on the fixed fee private cabs charge and who you can ask for their favourite drivers.


you know, if the "intelligencia" cant decide what to call non-HC vehicles, what chance have the public or trade got?...

whats a "private cab"?...

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 Post subject: Re: london olympics
PostPosted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 5:07 am 
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wannabeeahack wrote:
whats a "private cab"?...

50% of the UK's PH fleet on a Saturday night. :roll: :roll: :roll:

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 Post subject: Re: london olympics
PostPosted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 12:02 pm 
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taxiCABman wrote:
Ken Livingstone, it appears, is behind the private-hire industry


Shame the public sacked him.

Never mind. :D


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im a "private cab hire minicab car taxi private"


its official

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