Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

So what do you think?

  • 13-01-2009 5:05am
    #1
    Spook_ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,896 ✭✭✭✭


    Noticed that the TR has put out a listing of vehicles suitable fo use as taxis/hackneys, well what do the great unwashed public think,? I'll tell you I was amazed at some of the cars that actualy failed the new critera, Volvo S60 and the Peugeot 407 among them....

    http://www.taxiregulator.ie/files/Model_Report_Database_05-01-09_PDF.pdf


Comments

  • #2
    Terrontress
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,918 ✭✭✭Terrontress


    Some of the cars neither pass nor fail such as the VW Phaeton. I'd have thought that would be the ideal taxi. Large, comfortable, well built and not as expensive as its Mercedes counterpart.


  • #3
    Berty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,154 ✭✭✭✭Berty


    We should take this list to the ranks, confiscate the ****e parked in the them and demand they all drive 2009 S-Class mercs.

    I see the 1988 toyota corolla thats driving in Limerick does not feature on the list. I always refuse this taxi and get in the taxi behind.

    No rear seat belts, no air bags, no abs, NO FARE from me.

    Also the grim reaper dodger driving it leaves no room for mistake.


  • #4
    Danbo!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,942 ✭✭✭Danbo!


    Terrontress wrote: »
    Some of the cars neither pass nor fail such as the VW Phaeton. I'd have thought that would be the ideal taxi. Large, comfortable, well built and not as expensive as its Mercedes counterpart.

    Doesn't have "shoulder width" box filled in. Probably couldn't find one to measure.


  • #5
    CreepingDeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,015 ✭✭✭CreepingDeath


    Spook_ie wrote: »
    well what do the great unwashed public think,?

    Surely if you're going to address the great unwashed public you should've posted to the "Dublin County North" forum ?


  • #6
    Dardania
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,612 ✭✭✭Dardania


    Berty wrote: »
    We should take this list to the ranks, confiscate the ****e parked in the them and demand they all drive 2009 S-Class mercs.

    I see the 1988 toyota corolla thats driving in Limerick does not feature on the list. I always refuse this taxi and get in the taxi behind.

    No rear seat belts, no air bags, no abs, NO FARE from me.

    Also the grim reaper dodger driving it leaves no room for mistake.

    You're citing the absence of safety feautures as a turn off for this car - personally I think the fact that this car has probably seen massive mileage since 1988 and is still goiong says alot that if it wasn't hit in the last 20years you're probably alright in it...

    Imagine how many arses have been across its back seats!?


  • Advertisement
  • #7
    Spook_ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,896 ✭✭✭✭Spook_ie


    Terrontress wrote: »
    Some of the cars neither pass nor fail such as the VW Phaeton. I'd have thought that would be the ideal taxi. Large, comfortable, well built and not as expensive as its Mercedes counterpart.


    Welcome to the modern day world of taxiing in Dublin, driven by a TRs office that doesn't know it's arse from it's shoulder.....:)


  • #8
    Spook_ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,896 ✭✭✭✭Spook_ie


    CreepingDeath wrote: »
    Surely if you're going to address the great unwashed public you should've posted to the "Dublin County North" forum ?


    Nah, AH fits the bill much better .......... :) God help us if they ever get broadband smellycom to work...


  • #9
    shenanigans1982
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,467 ✭✭✭shenanigans1982


    Spook_ie wrote: »
    Welcome to the modern day world of taxiing in Dublin, driven by a know-it-all that doesn't know it's arse from it's shoulder.....:)

    FYP


  • #10
    Spook_ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,896 ✭✭✭✭Spook_ie


    shenanigans1982 wrote: »
    FYP

    Nah you didn't fix it at all, 'cos it wasn't broken in the first place....:)


  • #11
    joeperry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 527 ✭✭✭joeperry


    Yaaay my car passes ,so if i need to become a scumbag it'll be cheap and easy.


  • Advertisement
  • #12
    Senna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    Just scanned through it, but why would a subura Forester fail on Luggage capacity? not saying its a good taxi, but failing on the only strength it has??


  • #13
    Spook_ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,896 ✭✭✭✭Spook_ie


    joeperry wrote: »
    Yaaay my car passes ,so if i need to become a scumbag it'll be cheap and easy.

    Yep you'd qualify, even without the car :) of course that's based on the assumption being represented in your post that all taxi drivers are scumbags..

    BTW a 1998 BMW 5 Series wouldn't actualy pass out as a taxi by reason of age ...sorry


Advertisement