Problems included faults with the brakes, suspensions, engine leaks and lighting and seatbelt problems.

See I just can't work out why they don't have any money to fund such luxuries as these.

How much are their plates again? Oh yeah, £45,000.

If you read the article, it could concievably mean that the stop notices were issued to PH only.

Well I would hope those doing the checks know the difference between a big black pile of s***, and a Skoda/Mondeo/etc.

But anyone who has been to Blackpool in the last few years is only too aware that the state of most of the black cabs is an utter disgrace.

So my point stands i.e. too much money is spent on the plate, and next to nothing on the rest of the motor.

Just go to the 'flyer' and see the quality of the Non English speaking minicab drivers, who smell slightly, and generaly rip customers off.
Then compare them to the smart, knowledgeable London Taxi drivers who are members of the LTDA.

Ollie

Just go to the 'flyer' and see the quality of the LPH

Checks find taxis 'unroadworthy'

More than half the taxis on Blackpool's roads were classed as unroadworthy in a crackdown by Lancashire Police.

Police and council licensing officials carried out spot checks on 29 taxis - both hackney carriages and private hire vehicles - as part of the crackdown.

During the inspections, 18 were deemed to be so unroadworthy that they were immediately taken off the road.

Problems included faults with the brakes, suspensions, engine leaks and lighting and seatbelt problems.

Ten other vehicles were issued with notices to have minor repair work undertaken.

Police are warning revellers to be alert to the danger of taxis that should not be on the road.

Do some digging on this one and you come up with interesting answers.

256 hacks./500 ph, in Blackpool. So Sussex, of the 18 stop notices, what was the ratio of Hack to PH? Don't know? didn't think so. So find out.
The answer might just surprise you.

But then again it might not.

My eyes did not lie when I saw, and I rode in, the piles of s*** with Blackpool Hackney Carriage plates on the back.

As for the PH, well they looked just fine to me.

"Although a premium is a clear indicator of higher than "market" profits, it is not necessarily an indicator of significant unmet demand"

Taken from the Halcrow report on Blackpool January 2005.

And the Nottingham SUD survey, and another one I read recently from Halcrow said it was evidence of SUD.

In other words SUD surveys say what the council wants. Sort of piper and payer situation.

Questions: What benefit do you think there is there for a council in colluding with plate holders in limiting or capping licenses.