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[email protected] · April 18th 17, 02:53 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at 10:18:38 on Tue, 18
Apr 2017, Neil Williams remarked:

... get older...
I think we probably do.

You get older quicker than everywhere else in the country? Seems
unlikely. People are people, and I see no reason for any local
standard on such things.

The Cambridge City medical requirement differs too, it goes annual at
the age of 60, with others required at 25, 30, 35 and 40, as well as
every five years from 45 onwards.

Obviously there must be a lot of suspected decrepit 25-40yr old
drivers there! Let alone 60-65 requiring an annual test nit currently
required in East Cambs.

Indeed, as I said, I see no reason for local standards on private hire
cars *at all*. National licencing would work perfectly well and would
adapt much better to new services like Uber.

Very few people would agree with you. Especially the local councils
who insist on local variations (and the cabbies who would resist
anything additional to the currently in force local requirement).

In Cambridge there are other issues, like admission to restricted
city centre areas. So probably not an issue in East Cambs.
Enforcement is typically by camera and registration plate anyway.
Bollards, mate.

Assuming that referred to raising bollards rather than being a
euphemism, those are done by registration number too, not car colour.

Nope. In Cambridge it's by transponder.

More "was" than "is" now. The only transponder-operated gates left only work
for buses.

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Colin Rosenstiel