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Study reveals no more hackney cabs are needed

HACKNEY cab numbers in Basingstoke will not be increased after a study revealed the average passenger waits less than a minute for a cab.

Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council, which issues licences to hackney cabs, carried out a survey to see if more were needed.

Drivers had argued against increasing the number from 55, believing there would not be enough work to go round.

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The survey showed passengers waited an average of 54 seconds for a hackney cab, while drivers had to wait an average of 11 minutes for each fare.

The borough council's licensing committee decided to keep a cap on numbers to ensure hackney cab drivers would be able to earn a reasonable living.

However, they said they would monitor the situation continuously, instead of carrying out a survey every three years.

9:08am today

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Well then why would anyone want one?

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IDFIMH

Did the study mention how many points of embarcation were studied and how many passengers were involved in the hiring of vehicles and at what times of day?

In 2002 when they had 46 cabs a survey found there was a significant lack of hackney carriage services within the borough and didn't they issue a further 9 licenses in 2003? If my memory serves me right they hadn't had a survey since 1992. That puts a new meaning on the lifetime of a survey lol.

Without actually seeing this survey its impossible to make a personal judgement on its accuracy. I do however like the reference to future surveys when a council spokesman said "they would monitor the situation continuously, instead of carrying out a survey every three years".

That should be interesting? lol

Regards

JD

A continuous review

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

How are you able to make a judgement on the accuracy of the survey .............. when (and I'm only guessing here) you only have a limited or no knowledge of the area concerned.

Or like the OFT do you consider yourself capable of determining its accuracy from 200 miles away.

B. Lucky

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Skull on TDO

TF pi$$ed on his chips.

Any survey TPI does needs treating as being iffy.

Making it up as you go along may be sound policy for some on here, but I don't follow those living well in the past.

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IDFIMH

How does anyone judge a survey? By studying the information in the so-called survey report and drawing a conclusion from that information. We've had two surveys recently put under the microscope one was fundamentally flawed and the other rigged.

Only people like you believe in the accuracy of surveys and that's because you have no other lifeline to cling to.

JD

Its not that I believe in the accuracy of surveys.

Its the fact that the government demand them.

I find it difficult to understand why you would suggest that I have nothing else to "cling on" to when I have been able to convince my own council that they need to review their policies, and through consultation and debate they have agreed that a temporary suspension was the correct action.

If that temporary suspension is to become permanant there will need to be a survey ............ but that will not be undertaken at our request or the request of Gateshead Council, it will be undertaken because it is considered as best practice by the government.

B. Lucky

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Skull on TDO

TF pi$$ed on his chips.

Perhaps the survey would be necessary to fulfil the legal requirements, rather than meeting a fictitious 'demand' from the Govt?

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Thats you using the word demand ........... not me.

The advice from government, on the basis that they consider it to be best practice, is to hold a survey to show that restricting the number of HC vehicles the public will suffer no detriment to service.

Strange that the needs or the requirements for plates by any individual or group are not considered important enough to warrant a mention regarding best practice.

B. Lucky

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Skull on TDO

TF pi$$ed on his chips.

One what?

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Former taxi driver

So one minute you're saying:



Then you're saying:




I rest my case

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So the government don't "demand " a survey is undertaken if councils choose to maintain restrictions.

It was your suggestion that the demand was ficticious that I was questioning.

As normal you look to answer what suits and ignore the facts.

Never mind though your shortsightedness is legendary.

B. Lucky

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Skull on TDO

TF pi$$ed on his chips.

Well the Govt didn't 'demand' surveys, so your suggestion that it did was fictitious.

Indeed, you said in a later post that that surveying was the Govt's advice, which is a bit less than a demand, so you were actually right the second time and contradicted your initial claim and tried to say that it was me in the wrong!

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Well considering that you seem to be blaming me for your own somersaults in this thread then I'm not surprised you think that.

But one of us is certainly on Planet Zog here, so either way I think I'll say no more

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