Taxi Driver Online

The council have decided to keep the test for PH and review it again in 2 years.

Well that’s good news for the the local, non uber, trade.

And for the traveling public who actually want drivers to know where they are going.

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IDFIMH

All that said, expect Uber to fight back.

They will now offer big incentives for drivers to switch and/or easy finance for vehicles.

The latter was a big draw for a couple of mates switching down here.

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IDFIMH

Interesting. I assumed councillors would wilt.

It's not that I'm on the side of Uber, but I'd guess there's a political element to all of this. Not the usual party politics stuff, necessarily, but certainly an element of capture

I was going to agree with you on that, but reading the report to councillors, I'm not so sure.

Officials didn't indicate a view; they just gave out the facts from the consultation, which showed that more folks wanted retention, but overall, more people wanted amendments to the taxi/PH tests.

One thing that did make me smile was that they have a taxi limit of 1079 taxis, but currently, only 484 taxis are working.

Please, please, please don't tell me that they still conduct SUD surveys.

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IDFIMH