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[email protected] · April 19th 17, 09:14 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at
16:07:44 on Tue, 18 Apr 2017, remarked:

The licencing authority doesn't want tourists arriving at the
station to be greeted by a load of scruffs in beaten up taxis.

The train company, more likely. They control access to the
station forecourt. It's not part of the public highway.

No, it's the council.

On what basis do you make that mendacious claim?

Reading between the lines of the article in the Ely Standard.

I'm not certain about the position in Ely but I am in Cambridge. It's
railway land and I think the Ely station forecourt is too. What did
the article say exactly?

"promotes public safety and a professional taxi service in the
district."

What does that say that implies the station forecourt is not railway
land? Do taxis require a permit to ply for hire at the station? If they
do it confirms it is railway land. Councils don't issue such permits.

That's all an irrelevant sideshow. You claimed it was the railways
who wanted the dress code - I disagree and say it's the council.

No. I said the railway controls access to station forecourts with whatever
conditions they deem appropriate. You mentioned dress code, not me. What
conditions TOCs impose seems to be distinctly non-transparent.

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Colin Rosenstiel