Taxi Driver Online

skull and his demented views again

point taken about the PH trade but unfortunelty they mostly are cheaper than hackneys cause the PH firms give anything between 10-20% discount

check the PH firm at bankhead - big advert claiming 20% off the meter

but with your views of derestriction/regulation and having more cabs on the road isnt gonna solve the problem

Yeah, you don't have to be bright ......

In tonites Edinburgh Evening news:-

Surveys' ridicule beyond question

BRIAN HENNIGAN thinks that the council's survey in respect of the Meadowbank Stadium proposals invokes mirth ("Labour will rue the day it tried to fix survey on Meadowbank", News, May 15). He's not wrong, is he?

Despite no taxis being added to the fleet for five years, the city's economy "burgeoning" - according to former council leader Donald Anderson - salaries increasing by 20 per cent in five years, tourism expanding, increased transport demand indicators like more buses, night-buses, a prospective tram system and even the council's own taxi-bus service, the consultants curiously managed to return a verdict of no need for an increase in taxis.

They clearly didn't survey the taxi marshals managing the queues of demand at city centre taxi ranks at peak periods, which the council tells us doesn't exist, did they?

The contrived nature of council surveys is nothing unique. It has long since been a practice of the council when it needs a specific answer to obtain a survey to get it.

Isn't it long overdue for all council proposals for surveys to be placed for scrutiny before a parliamentary panel comprised of qualified, independent professional market surveyors to ensure best practice?

Wouldn't this remove the survey as little more than a tool for councils to enforce their own policies at the expense of the public good?

And what does the redoubtable ROSS from fasties say to this?

Read the letters page in tonight's news, A call from Mr Taylor to ban all surveys !

Ban surveys? Where exactly did I say this?

Nae wonder the trade's fecked with plinks like Ross sticking his tuppence worth in.

So instead of expanding your own numerical presence in the customer transport market you leave it up to the Ph to do it for you?

Yes I can see how this makes sense.... BTW how much did you pay for your plate LongshanksED?

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