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| Author: | JD [ Fri Oct 26, 2007 12:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Some agreed Fare increases and some proposals. |
Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, UK) October 26, 2007 Friday Fares Go Up TAXI prices in South Tyneside are set to rise. Councillors have agreed an increase that will see the cost of the average journey increasing by 20p following an application by the South Tyneside Hackney Carriages Association. The increases come into effect immediately. The council received 15 objections from private hire operators who fear they will damage business, and also from pensioners. One pensioner wrote: "If this rise goes ahead I'm going to be at a loss. I'm on a low income and will not be able to use them." Mark Woods, of Whiteleas Taxis, said the rise will help to meet rising fuel costs, but he and his drivers had agreed to offer pensioners a 10% discount. _______________________ The Sentinel (Stoke) October 22, 2007 Monday What you could pay for your journey The proposed charges include: A Hackney carriage journey of less than 800 yards costing £2.20, instead of £2. Each subsequent 160 yards would still cost 10p, meaning the first mile would cost £2.80, rather than £2.60. Passengers would still be charged £1.10 for each subsequent mile. Waiting time charges unchanged at 20p per minute. For journeys of less than 800 yards between midnight and 6am, drivers want to charge £3 rather than £2.70. The same increase would apply on public and Bank holidays. Taxis carrying at least five people less than 800 yards would charge £2.40, rather than £2.21. Every subsequent 160 yards would cost one pence extra at 15p. The same journey after midnight and on Bank Holidays would increase from £2.94 to £3.20. Each subsequent 160 yards would cost 20p - one pence less. _______________________ October 12, 2007 Friday Council's green light for taxi fares rise Fares for taxis are set to increase in Torbay but only by one pence per 150 yards. Torbay Council's licensing committee has agreed to advertise the suggested price increase for hackney carriage tariffs and if there are no objections, the price rise will start from November 1. The request was made by Torbay Licensed Taxi Association in respect of all hackney carriages. In a letter to the committee, Dennis Hext , chairman of the association, said its members unanimously decided a tariff increase was needed. He said: "Given the inflationary pressure being experienced by the trade we feel the proposed increase is reasonable under the circumstances." It is proposed that tariff one, which applies between 7am and 11pm any day except Sundays and Bank Holiday, will see journeys charged at £2.30 for the first 500 yards and then 14p for each subsequent 150 yards. The charge is currently 13p per 150 yards. For tariff two, which relates to nights, Sundays and Bank Holidays, journeys will be charged at £3 for the first 500 yards and then 18p for each subsequent 150 yards. The charge is currently 17p per 150 yards. The last increase in fares was agreed in 2005. Additional charges which apply for hackney carriages are 20p for each additional passenger, 50p call out charge and £50 for any fouling of the taxi. No additional charges should be made for luggage, prams and pushchairs. ______________________ Mansfield Chad October 12, 2007 Taxi fare hike in Mansfield FEES for short taxi journeys in Mansfield are set to increase in December after councillors approved a fare rise. The cost for the first half mile of a journey in a hackney carriage will increase from £2 to £2.30 after a request from the Mansfield taxi branch of the Transport and General Workers' Union. The fees after the first half mile will remain the same, at 10p per one-thirteenth of a mile, and the change is due to come into force on 3rd December. ____________________ Lancashire Evening Post October 9, 2007 City cabbies want bigger fares hike Taxi drivers in Preston say they need a bigger pay hike to even take them level with other cabbies in the country. They have said they need an increase of 16% just to keep them up with the national average. Keith McNicholas, of the Preston Hackney Carriage Association, said drivers in the city currently charge some of the lowest fares in the country and are the 70th lowest out of 87 local councils in the North. It comes as cabbies "reluctantly" agreed to accept a 5% hike in tariffs after a request for a 10% increase was knocked back. Mr McNicholas said: "With another fuel increase coming in and possibly more to come, along with licensing, insurance, maintenance and practically every other taxi-related cost having increased far beyond the rate of inflation, surely no-one can say that our increase is not merited. "We were disappointed that our proposal of a 10% increase was rejected, particularly as we had actually put in for an increase which would still have left us considerably below the national average figures that councillors had backed in previous years. "There has not been a fare increase for three years and the previous two increases only brought us up to the national average of taxi fares. "That means, by the time they came in, we were always comfortably below the national average as there was a time delay between the time of application to the time of the increase being applied." Preston Council, which sets the tariffs for hackney drivers in the city, said it felt that a 10% hike would be too much for local customers and might put people off visiting the city. The proposal for a 5% increase was advertised last week and, if there are no objections, the increase will come into force from November 1. A council spokesman said: "The committee decided to propose a 5% increase, feeling that a 10% jump would be too high for local residents and visitors to the city and it has not ruled out considering a similar increase next year." __________________ |
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