Sussex wrote:
derek hendry wrote:
The council has recently completed a survey and decided for the moment that there is no unmet demand. They have however decided to put a further 6 hackney plates on, all of which need to be WAV M1 spec and brand new, the brand new bit is being questioned by the hackney association.
Do you know what justification they have given for keeping quotas, and what specific case have they made that it is not in the interest of consumers for market entry to be refused for those that meet the application criteria?
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We have not seen how they have drawn their conclusions, we just know what they found and what they are doing.
South Shields is the main drinking town and this has gone down hill over the last few years, people are tending to go to the two surrounding cities, so i guess they know that putting extra taxis on the road would create severe financial dificulties for all, simply put we are just not that busy.
I am not familiar with the governments proposals, but i assume they leave the decision to the council on whether to deregulate or not.
As i said before they did a survey of the taxis and waiting times for customers, they obviously have decided that no further increase of taxis is required because generally demand is being met. There is always going to be a problem in peak times but they also know that increasing the number of taxis to cope for this leads to problems during the week.
I work the streets and mainly scrap about for work apart from on the friday and saturday nights and even they are not that busy. But you need the extra money taken then to balance your money. During the week we wait on average 30 minutres to an hour for a job, sometimes a lot longer, if that job is £2.50 and its took you an hour to get to the front, thats all you have made, you need the weekend to boost your takings. The council must have took this into account. during the week we also suffer from too many cars and not enough spaces with trafic wardens moving us, the council knows this as well, by opening the flood gates they would have even more chaos.
If they did deregulate then i could not just work the streets, i would have to try and work for an office, the offices would have more cars so they too would be affected, its a no win situation for everyone involved and ultimately, it still would not make any diference to the queues at the weekend.
Derek