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Well if you have an all-saloon taxis area then unless it's a restricted area if you make WAVs mandatory then numbers will in all probability decrease. Wasn't the taxi sector wiped out completely in one rural area when the council mandated WAVs?

Where there's less rank work the benefits of having a taxi plate as opposed to PH is obviously more marginal than where there's lots of public hire work, ie the more urban areas. Thus a rural saloon taxi might get the odd public hire job thus that justifies having a hackney plate, whereas if a WAV is require then the odd job might not justify the extra expense.

Even where there's a fair bit of rank work there seems little doubt that mandating WAVs would force many saloon owners into PH only.

As for the other point, clearly WAVs are less accessible to many people who have mobility problems but who aren't in wheelchairs.

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So do you have an equitable way of introducing WAV's into an area where none are licensed?

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Former taxi driver

As I see it, a Council has to either go 100% or nothing.

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What about buses?

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JD

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Do you mean What about buses being wheelchair accessible?

In Lincolnshire the Council have spent squillions raising the height of bus stops for accessibility, and all the newer buses are wheelchair friendly.

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Former taxi driver

How do you force one owner to go WAV, and let another retain his Saloon?

You can't let the WAV owners have preferential use of busy ranks, can you?

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Former taxi driver

Bloody good question Mr Jimbo.

But I bet we never see a bloody good answer.

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IDFIMH

Try Bradford, they threatened to make all saloons go wav unless the taxi trade converted 10 saloons a year. The rest is history.

Regards

JD

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Aberdeen City Council have been doing exactly that for the last 12 years

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So Bradford will one day be 100% WAV then.

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If you say so?

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JD

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It was you who said so. If 10 saloons are converted to wav every year, sooner or later, there will be nothing but wav?

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lol you really are a smart cookie? Why didn't I think of that? lol

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JD

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Maybe it's those blinkers that you never take off?

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And by 2009, Bradford will be 100% WAV?

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