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Glasgow Council Rejects Wheelchair-accessible Taxis

28th September 2009

Glasgow City Council has voted to reject an application for a new type of modified wheelchair-accessible taxi to operate in the city.

The authority has refused to include the specially-adapted Mercedes Vito, which was to be sold by dealership John Paton and Son, from being added to its list of approved vehicles.

According to the Evening Times, the decision was taken due to fears that the carrier-style vehicles could be confused with private hire cars, which could encourage private hire drivers to illegally pick up passengers in the street.

However, John Paton and Son has expressed concern that the ruling will have knock-on negative repercussions in the city.

Owner William Paton said: "As this decision prevents a substitute vehicle we intended to sell being licensed in Glasgow, it puts the future of 100 members of staff in the city in jeopardy."

Earlier this month, the Scottish government launched a new initiative which aims to crack down on criminals who are using the taxi trade as a front for illicit activities.

Source; ChoiceQuote.co.uk

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Brummie Cabbie.

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I think this decision will roll along for a good while!!

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They have the e7 as hack and the euro bus as PH I think the council is receiving brown envelopes big style
I hope they take them to court and get it overturned FFS the Scottish justice minister wants PH controlled not hacks

Oh yes!

I think scottish justice is a contradiction....

Scottish Justice is just fine. It's only when it's Lady of the Night out by a UK Government who want nothing to do with any comebacks there's a problem. You might also want to check how safe Mr. Megrahi's conviction was especially in light of the fact that the shopkeeper who fingered him was paid millions by the Americans.

Kenny McCaskill said that a prisoner transfer was within the rules and within the scope of his Office. I don't know what's funnier; the amount of backpedalling Westminster did as the REAL story came out about deals done with Libyan companies OR the fact that Scotland's Government is the only one which can follow its' own rules.

There is nothing funny about this story

Is anyone laughing?

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Grandad,

I'll back that, time and again it's been seen by them to convict somebody rather than the guilty, no disrespect mean't to anyone touched by that day, but justice and courts are not and never have been a very good match, if Megrahi's conviction was a set up, imagine how much of a victim he must feel right now, and more to the point someone got away scott free, the evidence was a minefield admittedly, but it struck me at the time *lets convict somebody rather than nobody* which is ok as long as the somebody ain't you.