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 Post subject: Re: Wirral
PostPosted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 9:08 am 
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grandad wrote:
Just how many topics does the wirrel need?

It does some what indicate the utter desperation of those desperately clinging on to the restrictions dream.

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 Post subject: Re: Wirral
PostPosted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 12:35 pm 
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grandad wrote:
Just how many topics does the wirrel need?

Another one, at least with that spelling anyway, must be a different place. :roll:

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 Post subject: Re: Wirral
PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 8:40 am 
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That would be a damn site easier than assessing demand for HC services!

Really? :?

Well let's start with two 'damn site easier' questions.

How would the survey folk differentiate between PH phone work and HC phone work?

How would the survey folk differentiate between PH work serviced by locally licensed cars, and PH work serviced by non locally licensed cars?

So now that the first question is easy to answer, we now have 4 more questions which fall into roughly into the same category of difficulty to answer as the initial question.

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 Post subject: Re: Wirral
PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 10:47 pm 
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grandad wrote:
Just how many topics does the wirrel need?


Lots, we're special :lol:

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 Post subject: Re: Wirral
PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 10:55 pm 
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grandad wrote:
Just how many topics does the wirrel need?


Lots, we're special :lol:



special needs maybe; Image

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 Post subject: Re: Wirral
PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 11:23 pm 
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Sussex wrote:
How would the survey folk differentiate between PH phone work and HC phone work?


The same way the deal with pre-booked HC work - ignore it? :-$

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Indeed, and can you imagine how they'd conduct an unmet demand survey for Berwick? :lol:


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 Post subject: Re: Wirral
PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 11:25 pm 
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Indeed, and can you imagine how they'd conduct an unmet demand survey for Berwick? :lol:



Yes, there appears to be an unmet demand in Barnstable..............and Cairo.

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 Post subject: Re: Wirral
PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 11:53 pm 
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Now there's a point - they can't tell what demand HCs in a particular area could be servicing elsewhere.

In which case the whole country should be derestricted. :lol:


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Now there's a point - they can't tell what demand HCs in a particular area could be servicing elsewhere.

In which case the whole country should be derestricted. :lol:



Provided there's a tough local knowledge test?

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 Post subject: Re: Wirral
PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 11:57 pm 
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Actually, that's an idea I was having for another thread, but I'll put it in another section.


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 Post subject: Re: Wirral
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Dusty Bin wrote:
Actually, that's an idea I was having for another thread, but I'll put it in another section.



ok

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 Post subject: Re: Wirral
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What swung the decision in Wirral was the fact that 114 licences were handed back to the council. Wirral like a lot of other councils that de-restrict, will only license a WAV 3yo or newer, therefore the applicant has got to spend £20-30k and lots of new drivers went under. It has got so bad that one of the loan sharks-sorry finance companies that specialise in taxi finance are thinking of blacking Wirral.


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 Post subject: Re: Wirral
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So how many of the 114 simply moved on to pastures new or retired?

114 doesn't sound that much over almost a decade with a fleet of 2-300.


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 Post subject: Re: Wirral
PostPosted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 3:16 am 
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Dusty Bin wrote:
So how many of the 114 simply moved on to pastures new or retired?

114 doesn't sound that much over almost a decade with a fleet of 2-300.


I dont' think it was over a period of 10 years because the numbers have been quite static for the last few years. I'm not entirely sure where you'll get that kind of information from

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I dont' think it was over a period of 10 years because the numbers have been quite static for the last few years.


Yes, but even if numbers are relatively static there will still be new vehicles coming on and others departing.

Or think about it another way - even if numbers were restricted for twenty years then it's not going to be the same people owning the plates at the end as started at the beginning. Some will be, but a lot will have changed hands.

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I'm not entirely sure where you'll get that kind of information from


Indeed, so it's better to claim that they've all ended up selling the Big Issue.


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