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it will be the Turks that will bust open the York Stn taxis railway taxi rank

22 Acacia Ave driver, no no, just give me your postcode

Then that plate should be yours.

Stop paying the so-called plate owner, and he can do what he dam well likes.

The proprietor of the cab license is be the owner of the vehicle.

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Taxi driver fears for future of city cabs

A TAXI driver today warned against deregulation of the business in York, saying it had been "the final nail in the coffin" for taxis in Selby.

Residents and tourists are being asked to have their say in York's debate over whether to remove the restriction on the number of hackney licences it issues.

But John [edited by admin], 42, who has been driving a hackney carriage for 12 years, said drivers in Selby had not been able to make a living from taxiing since the business was deregulated three years ago.

Mr [edited by admin], 42, of Woodville Terrace, Selby, said deregulation in York would be a "big mistake".

"Deregulation works in the public's favour, but it has been the final nail in the coffin for taxi drivers making a living in Selby," he said.

Mr [edited by admin] said that before deregulation, when there were 19 carriages in the James Street rank, it was possible for drivers to make a living from the business.

He said that deregulation had increased this number to 46 - and that as more taxis came on to the rank, there were less jobs for drivers, who were having to work more hours to compensate for the shortfall.

"All hackney carriage drivers in Selby are struggling to make a living," he said. "At the James Street rank during the daytime, we are doing nothing, whereas before there was a nice flow of business and you could make a living out of it."

Mr [edited by admin] said Selby District Council had "made the decision regardless of whose livelihoods it was wrecking".

However, the licensing officer at Selby District Council, Tim Grogan, said: "People not having to stand at ranks waiting for taxis in bad weather - that's why we deregulated.

"We have doubled the number of hackney carriages we have got and the waiting times are less now.

"It might be the case that drivers have to work more hours but people have to work smarter and harder.

"The public is being provided with a better service.

"I can't dictate market forces - what we have done is increase the number of taxis and there are less people complaining to me that there are not any taxis."

Mr Grogan said that drivers had been selling taxi licence plates on the black market and that deregulation was brought in to stop this profiteering.

He said Selby District Council had consulted drivers prior to deregulation.

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Wait a minute, the NTA, TGWU, Taxi Trades Group, TaxiTalk magazine, some elements of the GMBU and every other restricted vested interest have all said that derestriction does not work in favour of the public.

So who is right? Mr [edited by admin] or the vested interest groups?

No matter what we might think of derestriction it is obvious to me that the winners are undoubtedly the public and those persons wishing to own and drive their own vehicle.

I think that’s a powerful argument which many authorities will eventually take on board regardless of what we feel about the subject.

Since the publication of the OFT report, derestriction "propaganda" has been an absent ally of the restricted taxi trade.

Instead of following the NTA policy instigated by Wayne Casey of rubbishing the OFT report regardless of its content, the taxi Trade might have been better served following the principles of TDO and telling it like it is?

Having a fall back position as Mr Casey puts it, of rubbishing the content of a report for the single reason that it doesn't fit in with his own and NTA members ideology of restriction, is undoubtedly a childish approach to a serious situation.

The result of the Taxi Trade having poor leadership can perhaps be summed up in three little words. "National Taxi Association".

Regards

JD

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Or just one.... Apathy ....

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

APATHY:

1. Lack of interest or concern, especially regarding matters of general importance or appeal; indifference.
2. Lack of emotion or feeling; impassiveness.

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[Latin apatha, from Greek apatheia, from apaths, without feeling : a-, without; see a-1 + pathos, feeling; see kwent(h)- in Indo-European roots.]

I used to be apathetic, but these days I just can't be bothered

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now try looking this one up :-
d*ckhead (noun)

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This smells suspiciously like ELL Tell or captain calamity cab

Even further north than you I suspect Skippy - try Edinburgh

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TDO you cannot mean, the extremely infamous Jim Taylor

with deregulation on everybody's mind in York including those owners and drivers who have the added value of a station rank permit and another year to go with the franchise contract

may i remind you that it was not long ago that other outside parties were interested in working York stn, they went along to the Council and asked for x number of plates, only to be told by the Council, sorry they are restricted

so what could happen next if deregulation goes ahead, could firms like Taxibank, Frazer Eagle, First, Virgin or any other interested company now ask the council, we want 100 plates +, we will put on brand new WA motors, not a problem, we can bring in 200 trained Polish drivers,

so stn drivers, even your job is not safe

In an open tendering situation anything can happen and in many cases, it does?

Regards

JD

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JD, regarding York's councils decision to make all taxis black, is there any case law that the owners could use to fight this?????as it seems a complete waist of money having to replace or respray perfectly good cabs