Taxi Driver Online

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IN REPORTING the jailing of a drug-fuelled sex attacker who was pretending to be a "taxi driver", you quote Lady Smith saying: "What she needed was a licensed taxi to uplift her and take her safely back to the hostel where she was staying. What she did not need was the nightmare experience which followed" (News, April 20).

This case proves that as far back as February 2009 the council was well aware of the difficulty of hailing a licensed taxi at peak times and the vulnerable position this puts the public in.

Yet since then, the council has refused 92 taxi licences to those who want to provide the improved service at these times the public deserves.

The council is even defending its refusal to grant licences in court, despite the real concerns this and other cases raise about public safety because of its artificial restriction.

How can any local authority possibly claim to be discharging its public duty to ensure public safety unless and until it has done everything it can?




Do we have to wait until a vulnerable female is murdered?

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Skull, "You are a police inspector, aren't you?"
Cab Inspector Smith, "Yes."
Skull, "So, are you going to tell Mr Taylor what his rights are?"
Smith, "And ... What rights?"

Too many taxis on the road, but still Matt Lucas wants even more on the road! It's time to stop these carpetbaggers, before it's too late!

Or will it take the murder of a vulnerable taxi driver?


NB. Post written after attending "The James Barclay Taylor School of Scaremongering"

Regards

Total rubbishmongering, your idiology is 100 percent selfish personal crap. The reason sexual predator are praying on the vulenrable is because of CHANCE and CONFUSION!!! Our council should be creating awareness of what is a safe vehicle to approach. PRIVATE HIRE CARS should be anonomous!!! By allowing external plating and signage of PHC the council are creating confusion. Maybe we the Black trade should be the ones who carry external signage? Something like; APPROACHABLE for HIRE. Jim to say that another 92 plates would have stopped this attack happening is vain and naïve, this attack was oppertunist (chance) and would have happened no matter how many Taxi's where operating. Someone out to commit this kind of attack just has to sit and wait for the oppertunity. Jim go and re-value your worth to yourself never mind the trade.

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Alway's been about Tightening the Grip!

Lady Smith writes:

"What she needed was a licensed taxi to uplift her and take her safely back to the hostel where she was staying. What she did not need was the nightmare experience which followed" (News, April 20).


Lady Smith doesn't seem to agree with you Dougie.

Restriction equals Nightmare Experience!!!

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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

where does it say that a lack of licenced vehicles was partly to blame for this attack? Skull body swerve this one! Jim is way wrong and he is showing himself up.

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Alway's been about Tightening the Grip!

Jim Taylor writes:




The council restricts licence, do they not?

Keep taking the pills, Dougie.

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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

The reason being Skull it's a Limited market especially now, the 30 plates that have just went on have had a huge impact coupled with the recession, don't give me any pash about PHC taking our business, PHC drivers are a lot worse off than us. Restriction works in our city but may not work in another. Concentrate on your Quality controls first and then if there is a need for more plates so be it, survey of demand. Of course!!! What is your idea for stricter/Qualty controls? C'mon tell us!!!

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Alway's been about Tightening the Grip!

Carpetbagger YOU ARE HAVING A LAUGH mate, what have YOU done with the GIFTED plate you got recently for £1205??????
It's CARPETBAGGERS like you that are [edited by admin] the trade

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LET THE TRUTH BE TOLD

The cap on plates' fetters a qualified driver's access to the tools of his trade, this in turn restricts supply to the public, especially at peak times, thereby putting vulnerable young females at risk when looking for a taxi.


Lady Smith writes:



The taxi market doesn't exist to supply owners with drivers, it is there to provide the public with a service.

This isn't about guys like you Dougie, filling your pockets, it's about wee lassies getting raped.


No one is claiming the cap on plates caused the rape of this young woman, but without a doubt, it is contributing factor.

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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

CC

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

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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell, "Animal Farm"

sold for 35k i heard, to a portobello garage.

i thought you were against all this clegy
pot kettle black

I'm not saying that another 92 taxis operating would have prevented this assault.

What I am saying is that restriction is like the council's beecher's brook. It's a hurdle it has to get over. Until it does, whenever another incident like this happens, or even a murder, the council can't possibly claim that it did everything in it power to provide enough taxis in the marketplace. T

hat means that it can be held accountable, sue by the injured party for failing in its statutory duty. The female in this incident should be sueing the council. Given that the council's failure is anticompetitive, a clear vested interest and breaches custom and practice elsewhere in the country she would be onto a banker.

Duggie, you gotta get over this notion you have that customers exist to serve us. We exist to serve them. And on this evidence we're letting them down.

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Skull, "You are a police inspector, aren't you?"
Cab Inspector Smith, "Yes."
Skull, "So, are you going to tell Mr Taylor what his rights are?"
Smith, "And ... What rights?"

Those plates are on my vehicle. Thats what i've done with them. Feel free to ask me when you see me.

Wrong as usual.