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Taxi fares frozen as cab owners scrap price hike plans


Taxi queue in George Street, Halifax: the town has around 200 cabs that can ply for hire

CALDERDALE taxi cab owners have scrapped plans for a fares rise this year.

Charges were due to go up in March by the level of inflation.

But Steve Smithies, secretary of Halifax Taxi Owners' Association, said: "In the current economic situation, it is not in our best interest or that of the public to proceed with this."

The move affects about 200 or so licensed Hackney carriage drivers in Calderdale but not the 1,000 or so who drive private-hire vehicles whose owners regulate their own fares.

Calderdale Council Licensing Committee agreed in March last year that taxi fares should be reviewed annually.

Last year's increase came into effect on February 18. The next fare review is due to take place in November.

The licensing committee has been asked to approve a new metric fare card for Hackney carriages, which will no longer include the imperial measurement of yards. The switch to metric should also save owners £30 a year as they will not need to have both measurements on their meters, according to the council's chief law and administrative officer Bernadette Livesey.

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A sensible voice methinks.

Maybe he, and his colleagues, have worked out that it's better to do three £5.00 jobs rather than two £6.00 jobs.

Fuel and inflation are down, lets not be viewed by our customers as greedy so and so's.

At least not until the economy get back into some sort of shape.

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IDFIMH

How the hell are they going to go metric on the meters when UK cars are still governed to run in miles
What if someone from another area asks how they are being charged and if they are like me I was not taught metric and can only work in the old system, I still ask for 1 pound seven and six
It wont save money the meter setters still charge 25 to 30 pounds for 30 seconds work to put the new tariffs in

Europe has said we can keep our miles yards feet and inches, and our bent bananas, and LBS and ounces

They don't have to have two rates on their meters, ffs, these people are idiots.

The fare-card can show the metric equivalent, but even that ain't a necessity.

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin