These certainly seem more professional (they're marked PPE and apparently made by a supplier to the NHS), but whether they're more effective than the £7 home-mader is a good question
Chesterfield taxi company is the first in town to introduce protective screens to safeguard passengers and drivers through pandemic and make them feel safe
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A Chesterfield taxi company has installed special screens in its vehicles to reassure passengers and keep its drivers safe through the ongoing pandemic.
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A-Line Taxis, based in Stephenson Place, is in the process of installing the screens in all of its vehicles, as part of a bid to ensure that key workers can travel to their jobs in the safest manner possible.
The transparent screens effectively ‘cut the vehicle in half’, ensuring that both driver and passenger can travel in safety without spreading the coronavirus – allowing essential workers to get to their places of employment, while also ensuring that drivers and stay safe and earn a living through the pandemic lockdown.
It is on top of other of the other measures that drivers are already using, including having hand sanitisers available and fully disinfecting vehicles between each customer, and A-Line is the first cab firm in the town to install the protective screens – provided by a local firm that is also working with the NHS.
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Nicola Aldersley, account manager with the firm, said it is the first cab firm in town to introduce the screens.
She said: “The screen is a bit like a rain covering for a pram. You can see through it but it sits in the centre of the vehicle and essentially splits the car in half, and we have been working with a Chesterfield company that has been supplying for the NHS.
“Some of these vehicles are already out in the community and it’s given our customers the confidence and it’s given our customers more confidence if they need to travel into work or go to the supermarket, and our drivers are able to come out to work and feel safe.
“Taxi drivers are essential workers as well because they are getting other people to work – Chesterfield has one of the biggest Amazon warehouses in the country and we are helping to get those people to work.”
She added that many drivers are being forced out onto the roads through the current lockdown because they have families to feed.
“The government is telling people to stay at home and our business is based on people going out,” Nicola added.
the other day I went to pick up a prescription the chemists has had a wall built (plywood and glass) splitting the shop in half but you have to wait until your prescription is through the hatch and then pick it up and leave and the girl serving looked just as miserable 
