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Yes, the criteria should be quality and choice - for drivers and the public.

The two tier system is a nonsense. It is just a fudge, a muddle that causes confusion.

PH were supposed to be private arrangements between customer and supplier. By allowing them to instal meters, and data systems, the now operate like pseudo taxis. Taxis in all but name.

The trade representatives should be addressing this.

If PH drivers, vehicles and companies are good enough to operate like taxis, then they should be allowed to do so in a single tier system with the market deciding who survives.

In fact, in a de-restricted market there is already nothing to stop them meeting the criteria and operating as taxis.

Why didn't she get a bus home ?
Why didn't she get a train home ?
Why are the Skull and Jasbar not banging on about the lack of the above ?
Why has Jasbar not mentioned the lack of the above forms of public transport at that time of night in his letter ?

How is this for a idea............ when they catch rapists... they keep them locked up... instead of putting them back on the street..... might just help...

Doesnt suit his argument, but neither does total deregulation, they want just enough to still have a value and be able to sell on

CC

Julie Jordan, a driver's wife, Abbeyhill, Edinburgh

Hopefully when the trams come in, there will be a lobby demanding that they run throughout a Friday and Saturday night. That would be a far more effective measure.

Mrs Cabby fights back!!!


Keeping limit on taxi numbers is an essential task

Published Date: 14 February 2009

YET again we have Jim Taylor being economical with the truth (Interactive, February 12). He seeks to give the impression that the number of taxis in Edinburgh has not increased in seven years .
This is incorrect. In addition, most taxis are double shifted now as the cab test is perceived to be easier to pass in its present modular form.

We are entering a recession of indeterminate length and since this began taxis, like every other sector, have begun to suffer.

The alleged difficulty in hailing a taxi refers to a couple of hours on a few Saturdays in the early hours of the morning. It is unreasonable to expect taxis to clear the streets in an hour when people have been pouring into town by train and bus for the previous six or eight hours and these services effectively disappear when needed.

Hopefully when the trams come in, there will be a lobby demanding that they run throughout a Friday and Saturday night. That would be a far more effective measure.

At a time when taxi drivers see more and more private hire drivers picking up off the streets out of sheer desperation to make a living, and a time when it is almost impossible to make money during the week, and with a recession that sees the numbers out on the streets falling dramatically and with less money to spend on taxis, the last thing that is needed is to destroy the balance that the council has striven to maintain.

The council does not have a vested interest, only a thankless task.

Julie Jordan, a driver's wife, Abbeyhill, Edinburgh

Hope her old man isn't one of those bonking the phone girls.

Thick as pigs sh**.

Lets all have more trams to make sure we don't have any more cabs.

Hopefully when the trams come in, there will be a lobby demanding that they run throughout a Friday and Saturday night. That would be a far more effective measure.

Is this for real?!!
Protect your livelyhood by telling your customers to use the tram FFS