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Woman bids €105,000 for taxi licence



A woman bid €105,000 for a licence to operate a taxi and was one of 20 people who between them paid €1.12 million for new taxi permits granted by Transport Malta yesterday.

The new licences are part of the reform of the taxi sector, which will bring about a total of 50 new licences by 2012. At present, there are 200 licences in Malta and 50 in Gozo.

As the bidding process opened at noon at the recently-bombed Transport Malta’s offices in Sa Maison, only 58 of the 72 who satisfied the set criteria and who had expressed interest actually submitted their bid.

The highest was the woman’s €105,000 bid, followed by one for €80,000. The rest of the licences were awarded for lesser amounts, with the lowest bid being €40,000, double the minimum set by Transport Malta.

The lowest bid had to be drawn by lot because there were five people who offered the same amount for the last licence.

The bids were opened at a public session in the presence of Transport Malta officials, government notaries, the public and the media.

The winning bidders are now expected to apply for the actual registration of the taxi for which the new taxi licence will be issued. This has to be submitted within six months.

A Transport Malta spokesman said the new taxi licences will only be issued to the accepted bidders on condition that the vehicles they present for registration conform to all the conditions set out in the regulations for the registration of new taxis.

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/vi ... xi-licence

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George Carlin

Are Malta in the EU?

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

http://europa.eu/abc/european_countries ... dex_en.htm

How many countries outside the EU have the Euro?

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Vatican !

I don't think the Vatican is a country it is a state

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smarty pants

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

OK so the next question is......as you will be aware, this idea has been mooted for Edinburgh.

There are some who claim it couldn't be adopted due to European law.......if this is the case, how come Malta sell medallions?

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

Because they can

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But someone wrote on TDO (and I quote);



Do you think that's b*llocks and there is no human rights argument?

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

Well that would depend, if I was to do regular thinking or critical thinking, now wouldn't it

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I think their human rights argument needs looked at.

The way I see it is they say they cant have access to the tools of their trade.

This leaves us with a quandary, its been established by Gary that he isn't a taxi driver, so why would he want access to a tool he has sold already and doesn't want in the first place.

And the other point is there license enables them to drive, not own a taxi proprietor's license, how can the be given access to something they aren't licensed for?

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

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

Wow it looks like Malta got it all before Edinburgh did, oh well never mind, life's a b*tch

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You'd think of all the systems in the world that Malta choose, they choose this one.

I think this will help Dougie with his investigations.

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