edders23 wrote:
Speaking as someone who has run the ONLY disabled access taxi in my town for over 10 years. The demand for them is not great in more rural areas usually calls for more disabled cabs happen about every 18 months locally usually when someone has tried to get one in the middle of school run time or late at night on a quiet midweek night when I'm not working.
Able bodied people hate them and its hard convincing councillors of that fro instance on tuesday i sat front rank for over an hour with 18 fares in a row going to the second rank car in the end I gave up and went home out of frustration.
Every other taxi driver in town is aware of this and for that reason and the fact that saloon cars are cheaper to buy and run NO ONE ELSE ever will buy a wav.
The problem is always getting the message across to do gooder councillors !
your right....Its the Tail wagging the Dog. .....as always the overly well intentioned have a knee jerk reaction and all of a sudden the Taxi/Ph operators have to bend over backwards to try an appease them....in the process the extra financial burdens involved (which the do gooders conveniently forget) end up crippling the Trade and thus making things worse and not better. Im all for the disabled getting a reasonable amount of Vehicular access, but that access must be across the whole gambit and various levels of disability...not just wheel chair users.
as Toots says a review of needs would be a better way forward than a needlessly enforced WAV fits all Idea...if not we end up Discriminating against the Abled and Less Abled at the Expense of appeasing the Wheelchair user..who in a lot of cases is quite content to use a Saloon type vehicle if it means they are going to get to where theyre going..ive never had a complaint yet from any wheelchair passenger in my saloon..
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