On 07/10/2015 19:53, tim..... wrote:

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On 06/10/2015 17:30, tim..... wrote:

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On 05/10/2015 18:47, tim..... wrote:

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On 04/10/2015 14:50, Neil Williams wrote:
On 2015-10-04 13:14:08 +0000, JNugent said:

Buses are still available, if not always convenient. A taxi is
not a
bus.

The hybrid matatu/jitney model works reasonably well in many
countries.

A public transport operator is free to apply for the necessary
permissions to make that work.

Your preferences are not a reason to abolish protection for
taxi-passengers.

Who's proposing to abolish your ability to hire a taxi to yourself?
What
is being proposed is allowing people who wish to to take a shared
taxi.
Those who do not wish to can continue to take one to themselves,
obviously at a fare commensurate to that.

As I have already said, several times: that is already allowed.

It's just that the passenger decides on the sharing, not the
driver or
operator.

No, the passenger has to (somehow) find the other passages, that's not
the same thing at all (and completely impractical for out of London
destinations)

It could be done via an app on mobile phones. There are already
similar ways of locating people in an area with similar interests.

But don't make the mistake of assuming that your requirements are the
same as everyone else's.

What like you have do you mean?

assuming that nobody wants the option of making an ad hoc paring with
someone else in the queue, just because you don't want to

(not for the first time) what a hypocrite you are

You must be desperate if you're resorting to that nonsense.

It's not nonsense.

You accused me of suggesting that everybody wanted something just
because I wanted it (which, in fact, I did not do)

No, I did not.

I urged you to bear in mind that the fact that you want something does
not mean that everyone wants it.

As far as I was concerned, it might have been a point you'd never even
considered, let alone pronounced on.

and then you say that I can't have something just because you don't want
it (on the basis that everybody wants it that way, just because you do)
And you can't see that that's hypocritical

I support the operation of the law and I oppose attempts to undermine it.

If it pleases you to imagine that I am the only person taking that
stance, carry on.