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GREEN MEANS GO. ECO BACKING FROM COUNCIL FOR
SMART TAXI IDEA IN PETERBOROUGH
Eco-friendly council chiefs plan to slash red tape to allow a one passenger-only taxi to operate in Peterbor- ough.
The move comes after bosses of Green Leaf Cars applied to have their environmentally- friendly Smart Cars - which carry only a driver and one pas- senger - licensed to be used as private hire vehicles.
The eco-friendly firm, which has been oper- ating in the city for a couple of months using a hybrid Toyota Prius, hopes to attract passengers to the smaller taxis by being able to introduce a smaller fare.
But before they can
take to the road, Peter- borough City Council will have to change licensing regulations to allow the Smart Fortwo to be used as a taxi.
Current regulations say a PHV should have five doors and an engine size of 1300cc, while the Smart has just 799cc. However, it will travel about 85 miles on a gallon of fuel and has carbon dioxide emissions of only 87 grams per kilo- metre.
The application would see the Smart used for single passenger journeys only, but there would be enough room in the car for luggage or a wheelchair.
Owner of Green Leaf Cars, Tod Howard, with a Smart Car
Tod Howard, owner of the firm, said he hoped the cars would be on the road by the end of the summer. Mr Howard told the
Peterborough Evening Telegraph: “We are the first company to run a hybrid vehicle in Peter- borough, and we will be the first to run a
Smart if we are suc- cessful in our application. “We have had a great reaction from people since introducing the Prius, and we are sure the Smart will get a similar reaction. We have chosen Peterborough be- cause of its environ- mental capital aspirations. “We work very hard to be as environmental- ly friendly as possible. We were looking at possibly using electric vehi- cles in our fleet, but there are not enough charging points avail- able.
“Often you see dozens of taxis waiting in the city, and it is not very
green - we hope that in the future more firms will switch to cars like a Smart.”
Ian Robinson, the city council’s taxi enforce- ment regulatory offi- cer, said: “Statistics from the National Trav- el Survey suggest that depending on the time or day, around 40 per cent of all taxi and pri- vate hire journeys involve a single pas- senger.
“Using a Smart car for these single passen- ger journeys is better for the environment than a larger vehicle, and supports our ambition to be as clean and green as possible in every sin- gle aspect of our work.”
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