Taxi Driver Online

I suppose OFT meant more choice in the hail and rank markets.

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IDFIMH

come on TDO, lets have some answers about your Utopia then?

It's all in M&R

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Taxi Driver Online
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what its a myth that you are taxi driver? or the reality is that you are not?

What makes you think that, is it because I don't agree with you?

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Taxi Driver Online
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well im a cab driver working in a limited area and i agree that all the lads should be allowed the same opportunity.
i got my plate for nothing having waited far two long on a waiting list.
watching people jump the list just because they had more money than me.
is that fair?
is that the taxi game that we all want?
im alright jack f**k everyone else.
if all my mates =who are driving ph got taxi plates tomorrow i wouldnt be unhappy i would be over the moon.
maybe its because im not a c***.

Maybe you didn't mind waiting x many years. I wanted to be a taxi driver now. Cant wait as long as you.

as do many of my mates and when the country de-limits they will.

your'e messed up

I don't think he is messed up, he just happens to be one of those few drivers that when they get their taxi plates from the council don't forget their mates who are still driving PH.

He most probably also realises that the only sensible way forward for the cab trade, is for the only barriers to entry to be quality standards.

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IDFIMH

Government has historically, failed miserably when it quantitively regulates markets or interferes with subsidy or trys to make everything state controlled. Look at History, look at British Road Services, Communism, etc etc etc.

Government (and the economies) have, however, suceeded where they lift restrictive practices, and provide stringent and enforced qualitative controls.

Qualitative standards should impose the level of constraint to new entry to manage the market in a structured manner. Just as is done in London with the black cabs, probably a bit to excessively. However, where you have one element of the community heavily restricted by standards (black cabs) and the other element which has been able to do its own thing for years, then you will get the confrontational attitudes that we get today.

Roll on a one tier system in which we are all equal.

Wont ever happen, but we should all have dreams.

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There is Significant Unmet Demand for my Opinion.

I think you must dream about the same things that I do

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anyone remember how good British Rail used to be? much better than this lot, and it was done for the same reasons that you now espouse.

Anyone who thinks there is a free market governing the trains is simply do lally.

And anyone who thinks BR was the biz, is well and true living in the past. I suggest you check your 'rose tinted' glasses.

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IDFIMH

ive just had another look at the proposals
and im not sure if there is anything im really that opposed to.
Choice of cars good.
three year drivers licenses very good.
older the car the more taxi tests good.
lets hope the idiots out there dont get it diluted.