Taxi Driver Online

Taken from latest issue of Private Eye magazine; Britains Best

The 20th anniversary of bus deregulation is being celebrated with gridlock in Manchester.

Last week local firm UK North put 12 buses per hour on one route, to compete with Stagecoach's frequent services.

So many buses waited in the Piccadilly area that surrounding streets were jammed, trams cancelled and attendants told to slap parking tickets on loitering buses. As the law stands, UK North and Stagecoach have every right to bring Manchester to a halt, as long as they give 8 weeks notice.

Meanwhile hundreds of communities across Britain cry out for more buses, which wouldnt make big enough profits for bus firms. All of this is fine by labour, which has spent nine years refusing to ammend Mrs Thatcher's ill conceived deregulation.

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

This is nothing new in Manchester the reason for congestion is the fact that buses are not policed by the authorities. If they were made to keep to timetables and stopped from plying for hire at bus stops, there would be none of this.

Buses acting like Taxis is what we have here and I'm sure this scenario is echoed in many other Cities throughout the UK.

Rregards

JD

JD, you sound like the very bastion of regulation, welcome back into the light

Regards

CC

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

which has spent nine years refusing to ammend Mrs Thatcher's ill conceived deregulation.

It says it all really,

Mr T & JD agree on something?

CC

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

Err, I think JD was talking about policing and enforcement rather than regulation per se.

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Taxi Driver Online
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Was he TDO?

I presume there no congestion at taxi ranks then

CC

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

or parking tickets being wrote for taxis waiting to get on a rank

B. Lucky

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"Here's a simple solution. If you don't want to pay more for a premium service then wait in the queue, problem solved".
Skull on TDO

TF pi$$ed on his chips.

You guy's should come to london, 50% of traffic jam's caused by bus's.
Oxford street is blocked all bloody day, as are most main road's in london.
I reckon there must be 20 different routes run down oxford street, why not just have one route going up and down main roads, with smaller bus's covering the side street's. Everywhere you go in london now there are new bus routes, which in turn cause massive traffic problem's.
It's all part of ken's plan to get car's out of london, bloody leftie!

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stressed controller!!!

Correct!

Regards

JD

So private motors off the road more room for us.What a terrible thing!
say thank goodness for this particular leftie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ORGANISE EDUCATE AGITATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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The views expressed by this contributor do not neccesarily reflect the policys of The GMB Nationally or of the GMB London Region.

could you expand on that one?

CC

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

I know you drive a desk nowadays Terrence, but your members are caught up in this gridlock to.

Perhaps you have a conflict of interest here?

GBC.Are all the busses in London, are they full or empty

Outside the morning and evening rush they run about a quarter to half full, but at least they keep the roads gridlocked from 7AM through till 11PM

Then again they get paid millions regardless, so they don't really care, and the standards of driving? Well thats another topic altogether.
Suffice to say there are many similarities between them and the Minicab trade.