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| Author: | captain cab [ Wed Jan 30, 2013 10:34 am ] |
| Post subject: | Limit taxi numbers or risk 'blood on streets' |
Limit taxi numbers or risk 'blood on streets' Competition between cabbies could boil over into violence if the number of taxis in Cambridge is not limited, it is claimed. Councillors agreed to consider capping the number of hackney carriages allowed on the city’s ranks after drivers said having more taxis made it ever harder to earn a living. Numbers are at an all-time high, with 293 hackney carriages, which can be flagged down on the street or hired at a taxi rank, licensed for the city. They are vying for trade with 217 private hire vehicles – which cannot be regulated by the council – and another 701 registered in South Cambridgeshire. This contributes to cabs sitting in long queues which snake out of ranks and drivers being forced to work ever longer hours. A study commissioned by the city council estimated hackney carriage drivers now spend 51 per cent of their working time waiting, rather than on a job, and found the city had an “extremely healthy” provision of taxis compared with other areas. Cllr Jeremy Benstead, vice-chairman of the licensing committee, said this should be an impetus for action to limit the number of taxis. He said: “We know there has been blood on the streets within the taxi trade in other towns and cities, do we want to sit back and do nothing?” Taxi driver Fazlollah Khoshmanesh presented a petition to councillors signed by 119 taxi drivers calling for a limit on the number of hackney carriages to be reapplied. It was last in force in 1995, when there were 120 hackney carriages. Mr Khoshmanesh said: “The situation is getting very tight and it’s making it difficult for everybody to operate.” However, other councillors cautioned that capping the number of hackney carriages would not be a magic bullet, because the number of private hire vehicles could not be limited, and because South Cambridgeshire vehicles could ply their trade in the city. Other steps would be needed to tackle over-ranking and to stop private hire vehicles illegally taking jobs on the street, the meeting heard. Councillors agreed to consult on whether there should be a cap on the number of hackney carriages they licence. Cllr Colin Rosenstiel, who chairs the committee, said: “It’s a complex market and it is right we go to consultation, but don’t kid ourselves that we have the power to bring order to a market that might be chaotic.” source: http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/ |
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| Author: | grandad [ Wed Jan 30, 2013 10:46 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Limit taxi numbers or risk 'blood on streets' |
captain cab wrote: Cllr Jeremy Benstead, vice-chairman of the licensing committee, said: “We know there has been blood on the streets within the taxi trade in other towns and cities, do we want to sit back and do nothing?” Pillock! |
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| Author: | edders23 [ Wed Jan 30, 2013 6:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Limit taxi numbers or risk 'blood on streets' |
Cllr Colin Rosenstiel, who chairs the committee, said: “It’s a complex market and it is right we go to consultation, but don’t kid ourselves that we have the power to bring order to a market that might be chaotic.” Really so you do not have the ability to control the number of licenses issued ?  
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| Author: | Sussex [ Wed Jan 30, 2013 8:37 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Limit taxi numbers or risk 'blood on streets' |
captain cab wrote: However, other councillors cautioned that capping the number of hackney carriages would not be a magic bullet, because the number of private hire vehicles could not be limited, and because South Cambridgeshire vehicles could ply their trade in the city. Exactly. 
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| Author: | trotskys twin [ Wed Jan 30, 2013 11:44 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Limit taxi numbers or risk 'blood on streets' |
edders23 wrote: Cllr Colin Rosenstiel, who chairs the committee, said: “It’s a complex market and it is right we go to consultation, but don’t kid ourselves that we have the power to bring order to a market that might be chaotic.” Really so you do not have the ability to control the number of licenses issued ? Surely the point is they have ALREADY been issued purely down to the gutless mugs in the gaff  OR do you want licenses revoked ?????????????? please mister I cant earn any dough  THEYVE DONE ZILCH SINCE 1995  Reactionary as usual instead of proactive TOSSERS  GO SKINT YOU MUGS
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| Author: | 187ums [ Fri Feb 01, 2013 1:26 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Limit taxi numbers or risk 'blood on streets' |
we should do a tale of the two university cities: people go to cambridge to see the streets flooded with cabs people goto oxford to see the beautiful city 
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| Author: | gusmac [ Fri Feb 01, 2013 2:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Limit taxi numbers or risk 'blood on streets' |
187ums wrote: people go to cambridge to see the streets flooded with cabs I thought most went for an education
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| Author: | grandad [ Fri Feb 01, 2013 2:55 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Limit taxi numbers or risk 'blood on streets' |
gusmac wrote: 187ums wrote: people go to cambridge to see the streets flooded with cabs I thought most went for an education I thought most went to be recruited as spies. |
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| Author: | gusmac [ Fri Feb 01, 2013 3:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Limit taxi numbers or risk 'blood on streets' |
grandad wrote: gusmac wrote: 187ums wrote: people go to cambridge to see the streets flooded with cabs I thought most went for an education I thought most went to be recruited as spies.
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| Author: | 187ums [ Fri Feb 01, 2013 3:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Limit taxi numbers or risk 'blood on streets' |
you are all correct, but imagine going to cambridge and finding it full of cabs with no where to rank?? just littered all over the streets?? |
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| Author: | skyline cabbie [ Fri Feb 01, 2013 5:27 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Limit taxi numbers or risk 'blood on streets' |
Come to mk station 100cabs parked on rank and another 50-100 queing up off rank Besides the other cabs double parked, The rank is awkward aswell as once one side of rank is Full you que up on the right side of road and each time cab moves the one parked on Right side has to drive all the way around to que up left side, sometimes drivers just que up on left side even if full causing conflict between drivers. Have a look on google maps on how the rank is layed. Too many cabs on the road wouldnt ever wish Deregulation upon Any other area as it litrally distroys the trade. |
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| Author: | Sussex [ Fri Feb 01, 2013 7:27 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Limit taxi numbers or risk 'blood on streets' |
187ums wrote: you are all correct, but imagine going to cambridge and finding it full of cabs with no where to rank?? just littered all over the streets?? Or go to Oxford and see it full of local PH and taxis from elsewhere. |
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| Author: | 187ums [ Fri Feb 01, 2013 7:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Limit taxi numbers or risk 'blood on streets' |
Full of PH - yes Few out of town hackneys posing as PH - yes Full of taxis - No However we are full of buses. |
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