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Council urges people to report refused taxi fares


DRIVERS who cherry pick fares face prosecution as part of a council crackdown on rogue cabbies.

Asherock Khan, 30, of Roath Court Place, Roath, Cardiff, was fined £120 and ordered to pay £60 court costs after admitting refusing a fare at Cardiff Magistrates’ Court.

It is an offence for a working hackney carriage driver to refuse a fare that starts and finishes within Cardiff. Khan was prosecuted last month by Cardiff council after he refused to take a disabled passenger in a wheelchair from the St Mary Street taxi rank on August 7, 2009.

He had claimed there was no room for the wheelchair.

Councillor Ed Bridges, chairman of the licensing and public protection committee, is urging the public to report drivers who refuse fares.

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Yep just about sums it up.... have seen this no end here in Winchester, their trick is to drive off as they are being approached saying that they've been booked or their ramps are in for repair or just being bloody minded!!

Surely driving away from the Rank empty is'nt in itself a crime..all it would acheive is the Cab in question ending up at the rear of that or another rank..not much profit in that mentallity surely?

That is the mentality that sadly exists amongst some Asian drivers here .... One of the more "educated" drivers explained to me that it can be some sort of cultural fear/phobia that they will catch something from a disabled person.....? Some have a thing about dogs to... even assistance dogs, it's not an allergy either....One was recently suspended for two weeks after doing the same thing and it wasn't the first time he had done this..... It is a problem to be addressed, but unfortunately it's getting people to witness it and drive home the complaint....