captain cab wrote:
7. Improved social inclusion
The extent to which the removal of entry controls translates into wider benefits depends on councils’ approach.
Increased numbers generally will improve access to people on low income – however the extent to which the benefit extends to those with particular needs, for example with limited mobility, depends on the type of increased supply that becomes available.
If, for example, zoned licensing were to be introduced, wheelchair accessible vehicles and vehicles restricted to working in particular areas would be made increasingly available. Furthermore, the opening up of the private hire market could encourage providers to diversify and expand. Placing the private hire industry on a national footing could promote access to people in more remote areas, as the most practicable way to meet their requirements may be through sub-contracting or using a driver and vehicle licensed in another area.
That seems to me to be an example of someone writing something just for the sake of writing something in a pitiful attempt of justifying their very being...
anyway, if you improve access to low income groups, eg: the 6 kid single parent on £400 a week of benefits or the Mobility assist car owner with a purely Ornate walking stick with a self learned limp you'll be no better off, the first group are not poor and the second group never use taxis because the get a free fechin car every 3 years.
And the genuinely poor cant afford taxi prices fullstop as that would eat into their Lambert and Butler budget...beats me why anyone should expect the Taxi/PH trade to slit their financial wrists in order to diversify to expand themselves into the level of the gutter.
And this bits guff as well:
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Placing the private hire industry on a national footing could promote access to people in more remote areas, as the most practicable way to meet their requirements may be through sub-contracting or using a driver and vehicle licensed in another area.
Aye right, Your going to move a PH across 20 miles of remote countryside to carry out a 3 mile journey and then expect to get paid £30 from the client for the privilege of doing so...you might do it once but the punter would slag you to death for over charging..
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