Dusty Bin wrote:
Mick wrote:
A closed market it may be but can you offer a viable alternative which will ensure that the facility to pre-book a car to be at a certain place at a certain time will be maintained.
I don't follow your argument.
In my manor we only have a handful of PH, but no one has any difficultly pre-booking a car - I can't think of any local taxi that don't do pre-booked work.
Take an area with a quota like Aberdeen - 90% of the local fleet are taxis, yet I doubt if there is any difficulty pre-booking a car, at least no more than in any other city.
But because in such places what would effectively be PH in other locations would be licensed as taxis, so I doubt if there is such a need to pre-book - there'll be more taxis at ranks and hailable on the streets.
You seem to assume that taxis will only do street work, but this is not the case elsewhere, especially when they don't have a monopoly on the street market.
Dusty
Unfortunatly, because of premiums and a tied up hackney market, during the years there has grown a culture of this is a taxi job and this is a private hire job, and its a culture that wants destroyiong because no one but those that partake in building these monopolistic structures understand it.
lets go back to square one the start of taxis, rules were brought in for immidate hirings and prebookings which in those days often consisted of the scullery maid heading to ranks with a note.
Taxis were always for street hire and prebooked hire, only modern attitudes of demarkation, of you rub my back I will rub yours has changed this.
you are not a proper taxi if you have a radio I have been told. what utter nonesense, for once dusty you are right.
In some towns mine is one, more street work is done by private hire than Hacks, the hacks dare say nothing for if they do there will be significant unmet demand and premiums will be at risk.
so premiums therefore stop the function of taxis, of delivering service to people.