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Wisbech taxi drivers disrupt historic county council meeting with Horsefair protest


More than 30 cabbies marched into The Boathouse with placards criticising Fenland District Council’s £75,000 plans to move the rank on Horsefair bus station.

Cambridgeshire County Council’s Cabinet had discussed their multi-million pound vision for Wisbech and were holding a question and answer session when the drivers gathered at the back of the room.

Councillor Dave Patrick, Chairman of Wisbech and District Hackney Carriage Drivers’ Association, said: “We took our placards and walked to the back of the room. We were allowed to speak and then we were advised it was an FDC matter.

“Basically we felt that the only way we could actually get something done was to embarrass FDC in front of their higher tier.”

County council leader Nick Clarke told the protestors: “I will fight my corner but this isn’t my fight.”

Wisbech’s taxi drivers are furious at the district council’s plan to move the rank, which would force pedestrians to cross a road in order to reach it.

Placards at today’s protest carried messages including: “14 years. No deaths. No injuries. So why spend £100k to move the rank?”, “Give people what they want and leave taxi rank alone” and “It’s not broke so don’t fix it”.

But Wisbech county councillor Samantha Hoy criticised the taxi drivers, and Cllr Patrick, for interrupting the meeting.

She said on Twitter: “He has disrupted the cabinet discussing 90million pounds being spent in Wisbech to discuss taxis again. Shameful.”


source: http://www.cambstimes.co.uk/

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yup they did it to us shoved us out the way and then the work dried up they need to fight this and embarassing the council is often the way because it makes them nervous about elections and will it have an impact

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

Is this the same council which a few months ago said it wanted hackneys to have meters .and the drivers were objecting.? Out in the sticks I expect it is hard to get someone to fix a meter to a horse drawn hackney

Nah only the gipsies use horse and carts and then park their horses on any bit of of grass bank or ditch to feed but them fenland boggitts live in a world of their own and hardly ever venture to that shiny metropolis of peterborough or even further afar to Lynn mind you you need a translator to go there theres not many can understand Norfolk broad speak so they don't know that the rest of the world has moved on

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector