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Its a nonsense Idea to lower prices in the shorter term because fuel alone is slightly cheaper.

Everything else is still more expensive such as Repairs, Insurance, road Tax, council licenses, Phone Charges, the food you eat, the house you rent or mortgage, your heating bill, the kids Trainers allowance.....its not just a fare increase to cover See-Sawing oil prices but a fare increase taking into account the simple fact that Taxi and PH drivers have to live with Inflation too.

On that basis its also a nonsense idea to raise prices by the same proportion as fuel?

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George Carlin

no, your paying more overall, these fuel prices were climbing steadily over months, now fuels dipped its only short term, itll creep again soon and on top of that the Fuel tax will increase next spring to.

you simply cannot adjust the price every day, we suffered a long time before increasing prices on fares and now its a half chance to get back some of that earlier generoristy.

Its the RPI index we should go on surely?

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George Carlin

Aye, and the RPI is about as Accurate an Indicator of true Inflation as a Duck is to the Depth of a Pond.... .

oh..if only we lived in an Ideal world!!!

I think you will find that every council in the land still has regulations.
All these councils have done is lifted the limits on numbers.

Therin lies the problem.
How many bothered to enforce decent standards? and how many just lifted the numbers cap and stood back?

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So what is true inflation then bloodnock?

But you're correct, the Retail Price Index measures retail price inflation, surprise, surprise.

For taxi fares there should be a Taxi Cost Index. In theory this would have to be further refined, eg petrol may rise less than diesel, or costs of running an LTI taxi could rise faster than running a Skoda.

Inflation is just a measure of how quickly prices are rising, but you have to define what prices you want to measure before you can come up with a plausible inflation figure.

Sticking to meter rates would be lovely but when theres 50 taxis on the rank and very little work well there you go and you cannot get muslim and non muslim drivers to "stick together" after all many of our asian "friends" from Peterborough openly admit they aren't here for the money just here to take the food out of the mouths of the local drivers !!

We have the same thing here with Christian drivers

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Status Quo on taxi fares


26 October 2008 11:55


Plans to increase taxi fares in the Breckland area have been dropped.

It had been proposed to increase the rate for hackney carriages by about 6.5pc, with a one mile fare increasing from £3 to £3.20, a two mile journey from £4.80 to £5.11, a five mile trip from £10.20 to £10.85 and the running mile cost from £1.80 to £1.91.

But Breckland councillors decided against the rise because fuel prices were beginning to fall and the existing fares were already significantly above average for the region.

Councillors were concerned that any increases would place an additional burden on customers in rural areas.

In a report for the committee the East Anglia average fare for five miles was shown to be just £9.45, with Kings Lynn and West Norfolk charging only £8.54 for five miles.

The council's General Purposes Committee also decided to stop the temporary measure of putting an extra 20p on each taxi journey. This was put in place in July to reflect the then rising cost of fuel.

A spokesman for Breckland Council said: “Fares haven't increased for two years but the fares in Breckland are still top of the table. Fuel prices are now beginning to fall so an increase in fares cannot be justified at this time.”

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

The problem with taxi fare league tables is that no council wants to be top!

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin