This is the relevant extract from a piece in the Bournemouth Echo. I'm sure Edders could adequately summarise all this in half-a-dozen words, but for lesser mortals like me this is all guaranteed to cause confusion. And conflict, potentially
Face-covering policies for buses, trains, taxis and planes from July 19
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/ ... s-july-19/
Taxi operator PRC streamline confirmed to the Echo that the decision will be very much up to the passenger's discretion and if they want the driver to wear one then they will.
Mobile Radio Cars in a statement to the Echo said that the taxi provider had received an “email from the town hall requesting that all taxi drivers carry on wearing a mask until we are told otherwise by the licencing board.”
Although they did not comment specifically on the passengers following government guidance it would come down to the public's decision as to whether they wear a covering or not.
United Taxis confirmed the council have asked them to carry on until the end of the school year with wearing face-coverings regardless and will encourage passengers to do so.
Director of United Taxis, Bruno Silva, told the Echo: "Taxi drivers are self-employed therefore all we will do is recommend every driver to have a mask in the car and have it on when passengers are on board.
"We must continue united against Covid-19. We can only urge the same from passengers to have a mask on and help towards prevention. We will continue to remind our drivers to keep sanitising their cars as they have been until now."
