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A sensible idea. :shock:

You have to wonder why more councils don't ask similar questions. :-k

http://www.lynnnews.co.uk/ViewArticle2. ... ID=1385451

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Sussex wrote:
A sensible idea. :shock:

You have to wonder why more councils don't ask similar questions. :-k

http://www.lynnnews.co.uk/ViewArticle2. ... ID=1385451


THey will need more ranks, when they are sat around waiting between jobs though, won't they? Is the council admitting there will be more cabs chasing the same number of fares?

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THey will need more ranks, when they are sat around waiting between jobs though, won't they? Is the council admitting there will be more cabs chasing the same number of fares?

Maybe they might have to do something new for once, like have ranks where customers want them too. Not just where cab drivers want them. :roll:

Maybe even start to claw back some of the work they have lost to the PH trade. :wink:

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THey will need more ranks, when they are sat around waiting between jobs though, won't they? Is the council admitting there will be more cabs chasing the same number of fares?

Maybe they might have to do something new for once, like have ranks where customers want them too. Not just where cab drivers want them. :roll:

Maybe even start to claw back some of the work they have lost to the PH trade. :wink:


Talking like a synt again...

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The point no one has yet touched on is that kings lynn will get more applicants for hackney licenses from outside the district the same as we did there are several hundred private hire drivers down the road in Peterborough looking to change district
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But surely they have always been able to do that, in respect of PH at least. :?

And surely the WAV issue will put many from elsewhere off. I mean if they wanted to spend up tp £30,000 for a WAV, they why didn't they pay much less than that for a plate prior to the council de-limiting? :wink:

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The thing is that they are not interested in relocating as PH they want to switch from PH to Hackney which is why they are moving districts and most of the neighbouring areas have had this happen as soon as unrestricted hackney plates are available then they move in there is little or no work for PH in the smaller towns but once a greater availablitlty of hackneys appears more people use them. In rural areas hackneys tend to Grow the market but PH doesn't seem to develop well
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This is probably because there tend to be no numerical controls outside the more urban areas, and less chance of a stiff knowledge test for HCs or the requirement for WAVs or purpose built taxis.

Thus there's no point in running a PH, therefore growth in the market manifests itself via HC growth.

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Knowledge test AND enforcement non existent in rural areas. theres a LOT that gets got away with
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