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In message , at 23:05:11 on Mon, 17
Apr 2017, Neil Williams remarked: On 2017-04-17 06:51:56 +0000, Roland Perry said: Just seen proposals from my District Council to reform the rules, which are in response to *local* considerations, including: Enhancing the existing dress code. I would consider that a commercial matter for the operator and not something a local authority should be getting involved in for private hire. The licencing authority doesn't want tourists arriving at the station to be greeted by a load of scruffs in beaten up taxis. DBS check annually rather than every three years. A pointless and expensive waste of time. Can't they just use the update service, which essentially gives a continuous check at a far lower cost? That sounds like a useful contribution to the consultation. Driver medicals every three years. (The current system asks for a medical on application then nothing until the age of 45. Then every five years until the age of 65 when it switches to annual medicals.) People don't get sick in Cambridge more than elsewhere. That is not a local consideration at all. It's not Cambridge, and it's not about the flu - rather degeneration because of age, which happens everywhere. Allowing novelty vehicles like fire engines, army vehicles and tuk tuk rickshaws to register. [This appears to reverse a decision in 2008 that all taxis should be painted a standard colour, for easy recognition, and has certain tensions with the dress code - surely a novelty vehicle would really need a novelty uniform] That's a niche case, really. Recognition of a private hire vehicle has become moot, because almost everyone will be informed in some way of the registration number of their allocated vehicle prior to its arrival. Only if you telephone for one using a landline would this not occur, which is heading dangerously towards the proverbial goats these days. Cambridge only got Uber a few months ago. I've just asked for a quote to get from here to Cambridge, and Uber says £32-44 "no cars available". The fare by regular minicab is £38 (fixed). The further one goes, the more the fares diverge. eg To Sansted, Uber quotes £72-£97, whereas local firms charge variously £55-£70. -- Roland Perry |
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wrote: In message , at 09:53:14 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? In Cambridge, I gather a few hire cars are signed up to Uber but the established firms seem to have the market pretty well sewn up. Within the city they The Uber ones? No. Hire cars licensed by the city council AIUI. I am assuming that Uber is relying on existing operators' cars. Perhaps so, because they have to be licenced by someone. But would a car licenced to a council far away be allowed to be an Uber in Cambridge, and to use their app rather than charging on the meter? After all, the latter would almost completely destroy their proposition. I must admit I don't entirely understand how the Uber proposition fits with UK Hire Car licensing law. local hire car operators seem to manage though. go by the meter. -- Colin Rosenstiel |
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