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Taxi commission adverts

  • 01-08-2007 4:45pm
    #1
    Terrontress
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,918 ✭✭✭


    Has anyone heard those new adverts for the taxi commission? They say "with the new fare structure and receipts with every journey, there's never been a better time to take a taxi".
    Is the new fare structure the one which put the prices up for everything except for carrying luggage and airport journeys?
    I'd say there has never been a worse time to take a taxi!


Comments

  • #2
    meanmachine3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 551 ✭✭✭meanmachine3


    scumbags


  • #3
    Dub13
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,254 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dub13


    meanmachine3 wrote:
    scumbags


    Thanks for that....:(


  • #4
    meanmachine3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 551 ✭✭✭meanmachine3


    unfortunatley dub13 thats what i think of them reason being is that they are governed by the same set of laws as an ordinary driver but i have never seen a taxi driver obey any rules of the road examples are.
    (1)doing u-turns, streets such as dame street, dorest street.
    (2)going straight where there are either left or right hand turns only , westmoreland street being my main example, left hand lane is for turning onto burgh quay and yet they go straight driving on the meridan in o'connell bridge cutting everyone else up.
    (3) same as above this lane is also a single lane, it doesn't matter how wide it is they are all single lanes, yet they seem to make 2 lanes out of one where ever they can.
    (4) bus stops, all taxi drivers seem to think a bus stop is a taxi rank, that they can just set down there and yet when a bus driver beeps him/her they give the bus driver the two fingers.
    need i go on. there is only one law for taxi drivers and that is "no law"
    thats why i said scumbags.


  • #5
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,580 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    meanmachine3 wrote:
    meridan
    'Median'.


  • #6
    Dub13
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,254 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dub13


    meanmachine3,I agree that the standard of taxi driving in this country is appalling.I think we need a clamp down on them big time.

    A lot of people call taxi drivers 'professional drivers' they are not but we still need a higher standard then we are getting at the moment.


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  • #7
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,243 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    Dub13 wrote:
    meanmachine3,I agree that the standard of taxi driving in this country is appalling.I think we need a clamp down on them big time.


    I'm not a fan of taxi drivers but I think that statement applies to every one.


  • #8
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,041 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Dub13 wrote:
    A lot of people call taxi drivers 'professional drivers' they are not
    It depends on your definition of 'professional'. To many people a 'professional driver' is a person who earns a living by driving.


  • #9
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 18,004 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    As a pedestrian of this city, I've found taxis to be far and away the worst offenders for trying to race through red lights as pedestrians are crossing the road...

    But on to other concepts: How difficult would it be to implement a system like they do in London, where all Taxi drivers must take tough tests relating to the entire layout of Dublin and are very qualified in what they do?


  • #10
    Dub13
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,254 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dub13


    Wishbone Ash wrote:
    It depends on your definition of 'professional'. To many people a 'professional driver' is a person who earns a living by driving.


    Thats true but the legal definition of a 'professional driver' is someone who is tested above the normal class B license.To drive a taxi you just get tested on your knowledge of the local area nothing more.

    In my eyes van & taxi drivers drive for a living were HGV,Bus drivers are 'professional drivers' and the two should not be confused.


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