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STOP PRESS… READ ALL ABOUT IT!

Sitting in my taxi on Tuesday and somebody knocks on the window. I roll the window down and instead of a passenger I get a load of political rhetoric from a Scouser of all people. Now I was happy to listen to him but by the same token, I thought he should have listened to me……

Labour Peer proposes amendment to scrap (in part) sec 16 of the 1985 Transport Act

A late amendment to the 2010 Equality Bill was added by Baroness Wilkins on Tuesday 19th January 2010. This amendment, if enacted, could end the discretion that local licensing authorities have in restricting the number of hackney carriages they license.

Report calls for more taxis in Bath

An investigation on behalf of council officials has concluded that more licences should be issued in the city and that extra space should be found for taxis…………

More on Dublin De-Regulation Issues.

Following deregulation in 2000, there are now five times more cabs operating in Ireland, with the number in Dublin up by 450%. According to Kathleen Doyle, the regulator, there were 13,223 taxis in the capital at the end of November

Rank injustice has cab drivers fuming

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TAXI drivers are saying they cannot make a decent living because council chiefs did not plan for an influx of new cabs.
Stoke-on-Trent City Council deregulated hackney carriage [...]

Taxi deregulation brings only regret

Open-entry taxicab deregulation: It sounds great, doesn’t it? How could anyone not like the idea of more competition, of the free market deciding the level of taxicab service in Anchorage?

The Dublin Experience

Since the introduction of deregulation, there are now more taxis than the city can cope with, the transportation and traffic strategic policy committee heard.