Taxi Driver Online

She never did call me, either.

Can you blame her?

Have you a computer in the loo then?

I think JD owes Wayne Casey an apology.

An apology for what exactly? There was no character assassination of Wayne Casey, he made his own bed to lie in. He was biased to the fact that he preferred to keep saloon hackney carriages from plying for hire on the busiest Taxi rank in Town. I think the apology should come from people like you for insinuating that what I wrote about Casey and Carlisle was incorrect. When in fact everything I wrote was correct and that’s what Casey and people like you can't stomach.

If you put yourself in the public eye and promote or give tacit approval to policies that are illegal then you must expect criticism from those who find the practice abhorrent.

Regards

JD

I can tell I struck a raw JD nerve judging by the reaction. How long have you been sitting on those press cuttings, JD?

Suggested by the Government Green Paper on Taxi and PH.

And enthusiastically embraced by Local Government Officers.

Rejected by City Councillors, who clearly "knew best?

I thought it was JD who'd struck the raw nerve when I saw that you'd quoted the whole post just to add six words

Six too many.

What point was Mr Mystery trying to make by publishing News quotes from 38 YEARS ago?

I found this copy of a licensing committee meeting recently, dated 19/1/1994.

Not Carlisle, but Lincoln. Coincidence?

Council Officers recommended that:-

" (1) to agree in principle to a single licensing regime and to bear in mind the need to protect those owners/operators who have wheelchair accessible vehicles by provision of and access to prime site ranks"

AND,

"If there is no limit on the number of vehicles licensed under a one or two tier system save by market forces some protection/advantage should be afforded to owners/operators who have acquired wheelchair accessible vehicles either by mandatory order of a local council or on a voluntary basis to provide an extra services.(sic) This could be by limiting access to specified ranks at prime locations and B.R. (British Rail) forecourts."

AND,

"operators who have WAV's should be the only ones to be allowed to use designated ranks and B.R. forecourt. This will reward the operator..."

Perhaps it was some kind of input re the green paper rather than a concrete proposal for local implementation?

I keep asking myself would an LO think up all those proposals and put them to a committee all on his own without consulting anyone?

Quite likely.

I think there may be a few holes in Jimbos interpretation of the events leading up to this report. Considering he was around at the time I find it odd that he can't furnish us with any background to the events leading up to this report.

I keep asking myself would an LO think up all those proposals and put them to a committee all on his own without consulting anyone?

Regards

JD