captain cab wrote:
Sussex wrote:
Isn't that obvious.
If more vehicles are licensed to pick up from the street then less illegal hirings will take place.
However ridding the world of taxi quotas doesn't mean illegal hirings wont take place, just fewer will.
You miss the rather large elephant in the room which is London.....the bastion of the free market - there's more illegal hirings there than anywhere else.
Yes, which is why no one was actually ever silly enough to make the point that you and 187ums are now claiming was made.
Now you're quoting the OFT as saying:
OFT wrote:
making journeys safer – removing quantity restrictions and increasing the number of licensed taxis will reduce the need for illegal taxis where neither the driver or vehicle have been subject to appropriate quality and safety checks. Last year around 1.8 million people used an illegal taxi, exposing themselves to potentially serious safety risks
And indeed the bit you ironically highlight demonstrates that your argument is wrong. I can't be bothered going back up to the top of the thread, but if you read the above carefully then you'll see that it's not quite the same as you and 187ums were claiming earlier.
The key word is probably 'reduce'. Not
stop. Just
reduce.
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