Editorials
Fall on Your Sword Time?
The much debated Equality Bill received Royal Assent on the 8th April and is now
although most of the provisions that pertain to the taxi trade are contained within the
say challenge to an authority that pursues a limited numbers policy. The new Act places a requirement on a Local Authority to
Wheelchair Accessible Vehicles (WAVs). So
what percentage is envisaged and until that
drivers and taxi owners in local authorities that maintain a limited numbers policy and
seriously about the future and have plans in place when the percentage is announced.
both 100% Wav and limited look away now -
realise that some hard choices will have to be made. Take for example an area that has
be WAV. You only need a grasp of primary school arithmetic to work out that there needs
requirements of the new Act. This means that 40 saloon car taxi proprietors would have to buy a WAV - and quickly. We take the view that the trade in these areas should act
by holding a ballot or asking for volunteers
have to sell the car and buy a WAV.
We have spoken to a number on drivers in areas that are both limited and have mixed
by failing to comply with the minimum requirement of 50% the limited policy will
80 vehicles would hit the streets almost immediately. We would suggest that drivers and owners in the affected areas start making
Besides swapping the Skoda or Ford Galaxy for a TX4 or one of the many alternative
both of us have never driven anything else. For that matter an 80% increase in the taxi
end of the world - it will just seem that way.
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And speaking of limited numbers... Most regular readers of the magazine will be aware that the editorial team are pro limited numbers policy-vehemently so. This is largely because of our collective experiences taxi driving in an authority that had maintained a limited
of the free-for-all that is delimitation. We have
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