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| Author: | captain cab [ Wed May 30, 2012 4:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | £1 taxi fare to boost Walsall town centre trade |
£1 taxi fare to boost Walsall town centre trade People will be able to flag down a taxi and travel into Walsall town centre for just £1 from June 6, council chiefs announced today. The Town for a Pound scheme is expected to help boost trade for hackney carriage drivers. It is also hoped this will increase town centre footfall and licensing chiefs have described it is a “win-win situation” for all. Council spokeswoman Natalie Greenway confirmed the Town for a Pound scheme will start next month. Mirza Khalid, chairman of the Hackney Carriage Association in Walsall, has said drivers had the idea. It is aimed at combating the “dead mileage” of journeys back to the taxi rank. Under the scheme, hackney carriage drivers could be flagged down on their way back to the ranks. They would then charge £1 for the journey, regardless of how many people are on board. All journeys except for those back to the taxi rank would be charged as normal. The Town for a Pound scheme has already proved successful in Bradford. It is hoped more shoppers will head into the town centre, which will soon benefit from Primark and Co-op arriving under a refurbishment of the Old Square Shopping Centre. Read more: http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2012 ... z1wMirhMPm |
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| Author: | Sussex [ Wed May 30, 2012 6:23 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: £1 taxi fare to boost Walsall town centre trade |
captain cab wrote: People will be able to flag down a taxi and travel into Walsall town centre for just £1 from June 6, council chiefs announced today. The Town for a Pound scheme is expected to help boost trade for hackney carriage drivers. Madness, f***ing madness. 
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| Author: | blackpool [ Wed May 30, 2012 6:35 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: £1 taxi fare to boost Walsall town centre trade |
Four or more people for a pound total ? I know times are hard but feck sake !! |
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| Author: | Sussex [ Wed May 30, 2012 6:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: £1 taxi fare to boost Walsall town centre trade |
blackpool wrote: Four or more people for a pound total ? I know times are hard but feck sake !! Why would anyone ring for a taxi/PH to the City centre when you have mugs doing it for a £1? |
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| Author: | edders23 [ Wed May 30, 2012 7:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: £1 taxi fare to boost Walsall town centre trade |
It's been tried before in a few locations the trouble is the punters will soon start agueing that if they can get the ride in for a £1 why can't they go home for a £1 |
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| Author: | taxeman [ Wed May 30, 2012 7:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: £1 taxi fare to boost Walsall town centre trade |
Speechless!!!! 
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| Author: | trotskys twin [ Wed May 30, 2012 7:27 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: £1 taxi fare to boost Walsall town centre trade |
Idiots brain dead mugs what is it about the midlands? |
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| Author: | Doom [ Wed May 30, 2012 7:43 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: £1 taxi fare to boost Walsall town centre trade |
Should be £1 per head. |
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| Author: | Sussex [ Wed May 30, 2012 10:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: £1 taxi fare to boost Walsall town centre trade |
Doom wrote: Should be £1 per head. If you could license a 10/12-seater. All we need now is a PH firm that specialises or covers the outskirts to offer a £1 a head trip back to the outskirts from that rank.
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| Author: | GBC [ Wed May 30, 2012 11:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: £1 taxi fare to boost Walsall town centre trade |
edders23 wrote: It's been tried before in a few locations the trouble is the punters will soon start agueing that if they can get the ride in for a £1 why can't they go home for a £1 The same applies to people arriving at Heathrow for some below minimum wage price from invercockyleekie, then wonder why I wont drive them back to Norwich for £80.  Four train tickets to norwich from Heathrow would come to over £240 alone. |
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| Author: | wannabeeahack [ Wed May 30, 2012 11:57 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: £1 taxi fare to boost Walsall town centre trade |
I know 1 West Bromwich 185 car PH fleet who dont charge much more anyway |
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| Author: | edders23 [ Thu May 31, 2012 11:09 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: £1 taxi fare to boost Walsall town centre trade |
GBC wrote: edders23 wrote: It's been tried before in a few locations the trouble is the punters will soon start agueing that if they can get the ride in for a £1 why can't they go home for a £1 The same applies to people arriving at Heathrow for some below minimum wage price from invercockyleekie, then wonder why I wont drive them back to Norwich for £80. Four train tickets to norwich from Heathrow would come to over £240 alone. That is because customers outside of Londonopolis i.e normal Brits work to a formula which is cost of fuel +airport parking cost must be less than price of taxi so presumably you can drive from Norwich to heathrow and park for a week for about £85 I quote for about 4 times as many airport runs as we get in 60 to 70% of cases people decide to drive themselves plus we get a steady trickle of business and regular customers who will book anyway without doing the cost comparison Just remember Neville in London you have a unique situation elsewhere we have to live in a world where price is everything a penny too dear and you don't get the work that is why out of town prices to Heathrow are very much cheaper than your metered rates |
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| Author: | bloodnock [ Thu May 31, 2012 12:38 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: £1 taxi fare to boost Walsall town centre trade |
Sussex wrote: blackpool wrote: Four or more people for a pound total ? I know times are hard but feck sake !! Why would anyone ring for a taxi/PH to the City centre when you have mugs doing it for a £1? Then Let the same mugs carry the drunken P1ssheads home again for a £1.00 as well.....I bet that wont happen though. |
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| Author: | gusmac [ Thu May 31, 2012 1:57 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: £1 taxi fare to boost Walsall town centre trade |
bloodnock wrote: Sussex wrote: blackpool wrote: Four or more people for a pound total ? I know times are hard but feck sake !! Why would anyone ring for a taxi/PH to the City centre when you have mugs doing it for a £1? Then Let the same mugs carry the drunken P1ssheads home again for a £1.00 as well.....I bet that wont happen though. The tw4ts are cutting their own throats. |
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| Author: | skippy41 [ Thu May 31, 2012 6:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: £1 taxi fare to boost Walsall town centre trade |
Quote: The tw4ts are cutting their own throats. Are they really, if they where to charge £1.00 a head they could increase there take. How much does it cost on a bus in your area, here its £1.40 single to the town a distance of around one and a quarter miles so thats £5.60 for 4 on the bus A taxi during the day costs on average £4.50 so if they charged £1.00 a head that would be £8.50 for the same run Dont forget it would only be on the return run that you would normally have no one so in effect dead mileage |
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