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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
05:49:31 on Tue, 18 Apr 2017, remarked:
In Cambridge there are other issues, like admission to restricted city
centre areas. So probably not an issue in East Cambs.

The City cab trade never fails to point out there are more
out-of-area vehicles than City ones on the streets. I'm not sure
whether that's not merely an artefact of Panther (fleet ~500) being
based at a cheaper site near Waterbeach, just outside the City limits.

That's an artifice of Hire Car licensing law. They can benefit from
slacker regulation in South Cambs with the same operational rights in any
area.

Ah-ha! So Neils plan for countrywide harmonised regs would scupper
that - at the risk of watering down the rules inside the City. Unless
of course the rule is set to the highest anywhere for each aspect.

That's the least of it. Cambridge treats hire cars as public transport and
allows them in bus lanes and into restricted city centre areas. London
doesn't allow minicabs (as they call them) in bus lanes. I've no idea about
other restrictions in London or the rules elsewhere.

Panther has offices inside and outside the city.

Of course, despite being north of the City, that's in South Cambs!

East Cambs doesn't start until the A10 crosses the Great Ouse, north
[yes, I know!] of Chittering.

You're looking in the wrong direction.

I was looking north (to Panther's depot and beyond).

You can look in any direction. As long as an operator has a office in a
district it can have a licence from that district.

Going east from Cambridge you only have to get to between Stow-cum-Quy
and Lode to enter East Cambridgeshire.

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Colin Rosenstiel