Taxi Driver Online

Just received a ticket from Nottingham City Council. One of our cars went into the bus and wheelchair accessible taxi lanes the other weekend. Can you send me your full name and address so that I can name you as the driver and we can see how you get on fighting it.

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Grandad,

Don't say there was another driver driving it and send it off, they'll want a rental agreement between you and the driver, they'll want to know the ins and outs of a dogs backside.

Just read the RTO for Nottingham bus lanes,cannot make head nor tail of it,it is the most confusing document I have read,

Good luck with trying to get the ticket revoked.

We already know that you can't get the ticket revoked but Skippy thinks you can.

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Grandad,

Send it back explaining that your a hackney, and it does not state what type on the signage, and that you had a wheelchair passenger with the chair folded in the boot., include a photo copy of you hackney licence.
Or are you to chicken to even try

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Grandad,

Unless your car was PH, then stop going in them
But if hackney write one of you former council official letters, explaining that hackneys no matter what type are allowed in bus lanes if the signs state,

Are you suggesting grandad commits a serious offence by using Council headed paper to write a letter.

It has been explained to you on every occasion that the signs and traffic orders state wheelchair accessible taxis only. You are the only one who thinks that this means a car whith a wheelchair in the boot so I was offering you the chance to prove that you are correct. I take it that you are not up for the challenge?

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Grandad,

does it really specify 'wheelchair accessible taxis?

I wonder how legal that is? licensing law doesn't make any differences between vehicle types, a licensed taxi is described as a 'hackney carriage'.

Indeed;

R (on the application of Maud) v Castle Point Borough Council


Source: All England Reporter

Publisher Citation: [2002] All ER (D) 23 (Oct)

Court: Court of Appeal, Civil Division

Judge: Kennedy, Buxton and Keene LJJ

Representation David Wolfe (instructed by Griffith Smith, Brighton) for the appellant.


Alan Newman QC and Andrew Muir (instructed by Barry Rollinson, Canvey Island) for the respondent.

Judgment Dates: 2 October 2002

Catchwords

Road traffic - Hackney carriage - Licence - Authority proposing to remove limit on number of licences to be granted - Appellant licence holder seeking judicial review of change of licence policy - Whether authority entitled to impose conditions limiting where new licence holders entitled to ply for hire - Whether authority permitted to have regard to latent demand for hackney carriage licences - Town and Police Clauses Act 1847, s 37 - .


The Case

On a true construction of s47(1) of the 1976 Act, an authority was not entitled to impose a condition which prevented a hackney carriage from acquiring fares from a particular stand or street. That would create a two tier system that flew in the face of the legislative approach to remove restraints and allow market forces to take effect. Any such system would encourage a second class of taxi that was contrary to the aim of encouraging competition.

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

Yes it does. It is also on the traffic orders. The whole of the city centre is a no go area for saloon taxis (hackney carriages) and private hire vehicles.

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Grandad,

The whole City has become a money making City in the way of Speed Cameras and bus lane cameras. There's one camera in the city that's taking £350,000 every three months, that's just one camera, what are the others taking?

I doubt that's legal tbh

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

well they have to pay for that new tram line somehow !!

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector