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Can you then tellme why the council decided to re restrict after removing restrictions ?

Of Course the rent would fall but with more Cabs/drivers on the road the drivers take home would not rise that much and might even fall.

Additionally,overcharging would become common, vehicle quality would deteriorate, driver quality would go down the tube and there would be many uninsured drivers about with bald tyres.

A lot of drivers became part time.......working in factories (which are no longer there) during the week and driving cabs on the week end.
After this drivers did not renew their badges or their MOTs and eventually abandoned their taxis on streets.

maybe they did not reach 3,000. But,I amonly going by figures given to me by other drivers.
The point I am making is that Liverpool have been down that road and turned back. Why did they turn back ?

Every business is Numerically restricted its just done in a round about way.
Restaurants (with some exceptions like the curry mile in Manchester) have ''volume'' restrictions. i.e. you are only allowed to have 15% of the retail space for restaurants or take-aways.
Effectively once this 15% is used up you cannot open another place.
House building is the same..............they use excuses like over-development etc.
Try and open even a fish & chip shop in Prestbury.
There is none there at the moment yet you wont get planning.
You will get some excuse or other, which amounts to the same thing.

Additionally,overcharging would become common, vehicle quality would deteriorate, driver quality would go down the tube and there would be many uninsured drivers about with bald tyres.
This is exactly what happened in Liverpool.
A lot of drivers became part time.......working in factories (which are no longer there) during the week and driving cabs on the week end.
After this drivers did not renew their badges or their MOTs and eventually abandoned their taxis on streets.

That stuff is just about as bad as Joanne Connolly's claim that with de-restriction the trade would be full of sex offenders and suchlike

But doesn't she control a fleet with plates worth £1 million?[

Thank you for your responses............

I will try and answer all your concerns.....


TDO wrote........So, the implication is that London has a better fleet than Manchester, Funny that London is unrestricted.
Well, yes and no.
London is unrestricted in the issue of plates but restricts Badges by having a very tough knowledge, so, its the same thing.
Besides London is unique with the no of wealthy people there needing Cabs hardly compares with the poor people (relatively speaking) we deal with.
Ken Livingstone is trying to open up the ''knowledge'' due to the advent of GPS but not getting very far at the moment.


TDO wrote........1% of economy is restricted..........
Sorry, but its not !% but more like 80%.
Look at : Off licences, take aways, pubs, clubs, restaurants, even house building which needs planning permission...........
Theres not much you can do without restriction.

Susses wrote :.......
Do Manchester insist on brand new cabs ?
No, they dont but still the fleet is pretty new.
''As soon as drinking hourss are changed next year there will be taxis for all almost on demand''
''Your evidence for this'' ?
My evidence for this is two fold
1) In 1996 Manchester staged the Euro 96 and
2) In 2002 Manchester had the commonwealth games.
Licensing for pubs/clubs were relaxed during both these events and people were coming out at all hours at their leisure and there enough taxis to meet the demand.
I might add that during Euro 96 Manchester had less than 600 cabs compared with 850+ now.

Sussex wrote :
Please tell me how many of the free plates have been returned to the council(Liverpool).
The answer is ..........about 50%.
The figures are as follows:
Pre de limitation 700 cabs.
After de limitation 3,000 cabs
Today 1500 cabs.
Bolton de limited and the net result was that 1 guy actually returned the plate he had as there was no work before the de limitation.
Result ; council restricted again.

Yorkie wrote....
Last night between 5 and 8 Manchester could not produce a single cab at the worlds 3rd biggest Airport & cheshirecat thinks they are good.
Well,
First of all Manchester is the third biggest Airport in the Uk NOT the world !
Secondly, I know someone who works at the Airport and says this is rubbish.
Yes, there were two accidents on the M56 which resulted in delays in getting to the Airport with the christmas shoppers adding to the congestion.
However, the Airport was supplied as best as possible and no-one waited for three hours.

my pick up was waiting and we were off they felt like royalty

Cheshire beast

there were no Manchester taxis at the airport for 3 hours, unlike your mate I was there!

taxis and private hires comming in, dropping off and picking up it was chaos and a lot of angry people.

my pick up was waiting and we were off they felt like royalty

the airport could have done with the town chit.

now cheshire beast tell me have you a friend at all? or are you dreaming that he works at the airport?

but you say ''my pick up was waiting and we were off they felt like royalty''

I was in fact late comming, and people crowding round told me of long waits

no Sussex, sorry on this occasion many private hire didnt arive at all, causing massive problems.

no Sussex, sorry on this occasion many private hire didnt arive at all, causing massive problems.