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Author:  StuartW [ Mon Sep 17, 2018 7:58 pm ]
Post subject:  SKDC to allow market forces to determine WAV provision
Website to help disabled users of adapted taxi drivers

https://www.granthamjournal.co.uk/news/ ... n-9044537/

Moves are under way to end ‘discrimination’ against disabled users of adapted taxis.

The environment overview and scrutiny committee of South Kesteven District Council has recommended that the council’s cabinet introduces changes as recommended by the government.

The move, if confirmed, will also see taxi companies who offer specially adapted taxis to wheelchair users, listed on the SKDC website.

Cabinet member for the environment, Coun Dr Peter Moseley, said the measures will affect severely disabled users who cannot get out of their wheelchairs and need to use the specially adapted taxis.

South Kesteven has six such taxis, three in Grantham and three in Stamford.

It has been illegal since April 2017 for taxi and private hire drivers to discriminate against wheelchair users.

Drivers of wheelchair-accessible vehicles are obliged to transport wheelchair users in their wheelchair and charge them the same fare as any other passenger.

Taxi drivers also need good reason to refuse a fare from a disabled person, such has having another booking already.

Independent councillor Ashley Baxter welcomed the move but said government should make such changes optional rather than compulsory.

Coun Baxter then asked what support the council was doing to encourage the provision of such adapted taxis from the district’s taxi drivers.

Coun Moseley said the council gives a 20 per cent discount in licensing charges but it was up to the ‘market’ the determine the right level of provision.

He explained: “The market will do it for us which is why some drivers have adapted vehicles already. There are very, very few people who require this. If the market dictates more demand, I am sure more taxi firms will adapt their vehicles but this is a very expensive thing for them to do.”
Author:  StuartW [ Mon Sep 17, 2018 8:00 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: SKDC to allow market forces to determine WAV provision
Not sure precisely what SKDC intend doing other than listing WAVs on the website - the article starts by saying that the council intends taking some kind of action, but ends by saying that market forces will be left to decide level of WAV provision :?
Author:  Sussex [ Mon Sep 17, 2018 11:21 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: SKDC to allow market forces to determine WAV provision
Quote:
Moves are under way to end ‘discrimination’ against disabled users of adapted taxis.

Good luck with that one, but a website is not the answer.
Author:  edders23 [ Tue Sep 18, 2018 6:21 am ]
Post subject:  Re: SKDC to allow market forces to determine WAV provision
South Kesteven has six such taxis, three in Grantham and three in Stamford.

there is only ONE in Stamford and that driver only uses it to run his wife about and do airport jobs he's never touched the wheelchair work. The other two they included are NOT taxis they belong to a volunteer driver service and only one of those a rear loading ford chairman is used for wheelchairs if they have a driver available.

I think SKDC are running scared because if the government forces them into a WAV policy then the hundreds of Peterborough drivers might not license in SKDC anymore but go and get a Hackney license from Huntingdon and work Stamford so they'll lose all that revenue

As for Grotsville I have never seen a WAV there BUT I believe there is one
Author:  Sussex [ Tue Sep 18, 2018 7:11 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: SKDC to allow market forces to determine WAV provision
I think the council have a problem them.

A problem that is not going to be solved by a poxy website.
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