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Bring on single tier, bring on 100% WAV fleet, then maybe the power crazed PH operators will actually need to work harder to justify the ammount of money they "leech" from the trade.

This is a contradiction to your ideal though!

Are you not arguing for a single tier!

Are you not leading people up the garden path here, has your ideal as a "operator" been rumbled and so you resort to namecalling.

PH are part of the public transport system, you have (and rightly so) inclusion in your areas local transport strategy, why then do you want to pick and choose which legislation applies, the word fairness is banded about time and time again on here but you only want whats fair to you.

If you believe I have "thrown the arument away" and acted like a "prat" because I "know bleep all" and am in fact a "pillock" then surely your response would have contained your reasoning and evidence as to why you believe your opinion is more valid than my own.

Maybe you should take some time before answering as to date your responses seem to indicate that the allegations you make against me should in fact be levelled against you.

The facts are simple here, if everyone is a taxi then everyone has to abide by the same legislation, you seem to be implying that you want to have a single tier system which allows you to drive what you want but still recieve all the percieved benefits currently applied to the HC fleet.

Bring on single tier, bring on 100% WAV fleet, then maybe the power crazed PH operators will actually need to work harder to justify the ammount of money they "leech" from the trade.

Private hire is NOT part of the public transprt system.

Private hire is NOT part of the public transprt system.

Mick
we know in Gateshead you are all confused about the difference of what you like and what exists.

do you get confused with a proper tan as opposed to spray on tan?

What?

Private hire is NOT part of the public transprt system.

Sorry Mr Guest but the recent advice from government is to remove restriction of numbers.

The European directive is to have all public transport accessible to all, this is contained within the DDA with implimentation to start in designated councils next year over a 5 year period.

If the DDA was to be implimented properly every vehicle operating for hire and reward should be accessible to wheelchair users, in which case we could get rid of every saloon whether HC or PH and only allow vehicles converted or manufactured to carry wheelchairs. Now is this what you are suggesting should happen, and if you are how much support do you think you would get from either side of the trade?

As the other guest says, PH pick up more people than any other form of transport, save maybe the buses.

Or are you trying to be clever by saying that just because PH don't pick up without bookings they aren't public?

Dark ages mate, dark ages.

I believe that all taxis should go WAV,
I believe that every private hire company should have sufficient WAVS, that a disabled customer, would get a private hire as quick as an able bodied would, I believe this is what the DDA means and should be interpreted.

its a difficult one, but we must be reasonable at this time.

of course I believe that all should be taxis, which means all WAV
but we are right in taking time allocated to move to this point.

Cant see many PH drivers wanting to spend the cash on buying a WAV. they just wont see the return.

I drive a saloon PH and over the last 12 months or so i have had 2 wheelchair jobs. however EVERY OTHER DAY at least, i get a job from someone who is disabled or elderly who has a zimmer frame or crutches or walking stick. they often tell me that they physically can not get in or out of Black cabs. they also have a dislike of MPV's for the same reason.

IT APPLIES TO EVERY BUISNESS IN THE uk

every single one!

no you are wrong, public transport is just that not coaches, not charter planes.

the dark ages began with the misc provisions act, private hire is private transport, that is not public, how the hell can private hire be public.

lets go to one code, then such like as you can follow what it means.