the engine and add greater strain. The detractors blame LTI… so do I; they should have gone for the V12 8 mpg version I wanted.
The tide is turning, except in Carlisle obviously
Since the last issue of the magazine was published a number of local authorities have decided to re-regulate taxi numbers, whilst I want to congratulate those involved in the different areas with one hand, both the taxi trade and the councils concerned, I cannot help but think the damage has already been done. I haven’t exactly been over
in the past. Deregulation there seemed to bring with it an element that
fault. Taxi numbers virtually doubled in 4 years, from over 400 vehicles in 2004 to over 800 vehicles in 2008. The situation became so bad even the police, who normally want as many cabs on the road as possible to rid our streets of drunken yobs, actually thought the situation was beginning to get dangerous, in a manner echoing Liverpool in the early 1980s they supported a limit being re-imposed. Obviously with virtually double the amount of cabs on the road, and being in the midst of a
in terms of earnings, but the most important thing is, it will not hopefully
department sent out a questionnaire to Hackney Proprietors, three questions were asked and these were;
1. Do you consider that a taxi demand survey should be carried out in Carlisle?
2. Are you willing to pay an additional fee to cover this survey each year?
3. If the regulatory panel indicate that they would be unlikely to limit hackney carriage licences whatever the result of the demand survey, would you still want a demand survey carried out?
Not exactly the most taxing of questions, I trust you will agree. Well, 213 questionnaires were sent out to Hackney Proprietors, the council even enclosed stamp addressed envelopes, yet despite this only 121 replies were received. That’s right, 92 plate holders are so concerned about the lack of trade and lack of rank space, they didn’t bother answering the questionnaire thus suggesting they were against a demand survey
be bothered to answer the questionnaire, 73 were in favour of a survey.
wanted a survey even if the regulatory committee indicated they were unlikely to limit numbers whatever the result of the survey.
It’s quite weird this, I mean, a colleague of mine actually pushed the boat out during mid October last year and got 88 signatures on a petition asking the council to limit numbers; during the period between signing the petition and the questionnaire, a number of people must have
taxis over-ranking and don’t follow the route, as described in the last
station plans suggesting both a new road layout and changes to vehicles
park on rail property, or alternatively sit on a virtually redundant daytime stand. I did once write that cab drivers were genetically proven to be
Nazis - A Warning from History
Chaos and Consent …Some of you are bound to be aware that the sub heading above was a documentary based upon the Nazis and the Second World War. Episode one of the series explained how it: “was
possible that a cultured nation at the heart of Europe ever allowed Hitler and the Nazi party to come to power”. The co-editor and myself recently
discussed how something like Nazi Germany ever came into being, how was it possible, like the documentary states, that a nation like Germany, which for all its faults was supposedly civilised, could allow such horrible acts, ordered by the Nazis, to come into being. Let’s face some pretty
have happened if it were not for regular people doing regular jobs. The trains ran on time to death-camps, were these trains, along with the
Somehow I don’t think so, I think they went home on an evening and
The level of bureaucracy needed to build death-camps, prepare and wage war, at the same time as secretly developing new planes, tanks etc whilst still needing a certain degree of administration to generally run a country must have been staggering - a civil service approaching biblical proportions. The paperwork alone and the mechanism to put in place such could arguably only happen in a country with such a devout
after many hours travelling Jezza was completely bushed, he was faced
he was staying. Jezza told the guard the name of the hotel. The security guard asked for the number of the property, Jezza didn’t know, the guard repeated the question with the emphasis on: ‘the form needs a number’,
through and went to his hotel. He maintains the US is like that. People promoted way above the level of their intelligence. You have all bound to have come across a similar attitude when dealing with certain companies.
does actually exist... “Computer says no...” This naturally leads me on to the pen-pushers at local authority level. I tend to think local authorities work in a similar certain manner. You must be a window-licking imbecile
longer see you as a name, you are merely a number, a licence number, they need the street number of the hotel, and they need the computer to say yes. They have procedures in place - they have policies. Heaven forbid if you want them to step outside the policy, because that’s not in the book, the use words such as common sense and discretion are foreign, because those words aren’t in the rule book. What’s in the book is procedure, what to do if an application for a renewal is a day late; to them it is no longer a renewal but a new application, you must present a vehicle that meets the criteria. If a driver suffers from diabetes or suchlike, and this is also in the book, you cannot, despite driving for years, even with a nice note from the doctor, drive a licensed vehicle.
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