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[email protected] · December 3rd 08, 12:29 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(Adrian) wrote:

He also told me that he quite liked the one he'd tried, except for
one thing - he thought that because it didn't look like a taxi,
customers wouldn't hail it.

Yep, I can see that being an issue - those sort of van conversions
are in widespread use elsewhere as minicabs - and just as Joe
Public's been thoroughly trained that in London "Black Cab" = Taxi,
anything else = minicab/not hailable/driven by unininsured perverts
& rapists...

There are lots of converted vans licensed as hackneys in Cambridge, and no
doubt elsewhere, especially where wheelchair accessibility is taken
seriously.

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Colin Rosenstiel