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[email protected] · February 7th 17, 10:52 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , d () wrote:

On Mon, 06 Feb 2017 18:09:55 -0600
wrote:
In article , d () wrote:

On Mon, 6 Feb 2017 14:57:47 +0000
Basil Jet wrote:
On 2017\02\06 09:31, d wrote:

I tend to agree. There could be some incentive for having a
wheelchair friendly taxi - being allowed to work longer hours or tax
breaks perhaps - but forcing all cabbies to drive around in these
overpriced mechanical antiques seems ridiculous.

Cabbies currently have no limit on their hours.

Fair enough, but flip it around then - if the cabbie wants to buy an
ordinary car with no disabled access then their hours per day are
limited.

Under what legal provision would you achieve that?

Are laws cast in stone? No. Where there's a will etc ...

Anyway, there are already laws about the max hours truckers and bus
drivers can do , it could easily be extended to cab drivers.

The record on updating taxi law isn't good. Much of it still dates back to
1847.

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Colin Rosenstiel