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(Hopefully clunky thread title will make more sense after reading this - usual space constraints )

Couldn't be bothered reading the late Bolt submission to the TransComm inquiry following the oral evidence session.

But noticed this intriguing headline in Taxi Point, so decided to have a look

And in fact the raw data it's based on isn't just intriguing, it strikes me as just being off-the-scale crazy


Bolt submits data showing out-of-area private hire drivers receive LESS complaints compared to drivers working their licensed area

https://www.taxi-point.co.uk/post/bolt- ... d-to-drive

Anyway, this is the source for the claim in Bolt's submission:


https://committees.parliament.uk/writte ... 61396/pdf/

So they're talking about London, so they're presumably comparing TfL-registered cars with the likes of Wolves.

So, correct me if I'm wrong, but they're saying they're 38 times more likely to get a complaint about a TfL car than those from Wolves and elsewhere?

Don't know how they've compiled the figures, precisely. But, sorry, taking that claim at face value I smell BS

I mean, how are the TransComm members supposed to construe that claim? That the likes of a Manc-badged driver in Manchester is almost 40 more times more likely to receive a complaint than a Wolves-badged driver working in Manchester?

You'd think that everyone on those below-the-line comments in local media about Wolves drivers in the likes of Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham are praising them to the rafters, as opposed to constantly moaning about them

I hope the TransComm does something about interrogating those figures...

I think you are probably smelling the beckton sewage works !

I would love to see them sat in front of a commons select committee trying to explain that data

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My considered interpretation is that the above is a load of old bo*****s.

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