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Dangerous taxis in Dublin

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  • #102
    Chuchote
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    magicbastarder wrote: »
    it's just kinda odd that i could choose to drive into town, or go out on the road and hail a taxi, and make the same journey, but because i've paid someone else to do the driving, i get to use the bus lanes.

    I wonder has anyone made a study of how many passengers are carried on average by taxis (including time spent cruising for fares).


  • #103
    dinky earnshaw
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    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    Totally agree - why should someone who has decided to utilise a private form of transport be permitted to travel on lanes primarily designated for public transport?

    Are you including cyclists in that ?


  • #104
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,221 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    fifth image down.

    http://www.citymetric.com/transport/pictures-do-cars-take-too-much-space-city-streets-483

    that's a genius idea from the cyclists in latvia.


  • #105
    Trond
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    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    Totally agree - why should someone who has decided to utilise a private form of transport be permitted to travel on lanes primarily designated for public transport?

    :rolleyes: they are public transport


  • #106
    Kaisr Sose
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    Deedsie wrote: »
    I never really understood why an out of service bus or an empty bus or minibus gets to use the bus lane.

    Or an empty Taxi...


  • #107
    magicbastarder
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    empty taxis are not allowed use bus lanes, unless they're on the way to pick up a prearranged fare. how many do use the bus lanes when empty and not on the way to pick up a booking is anyone's guess.


  • #108
    cython
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    magicbastarder wrote: »
    empty taxis are not allowed use bus lanes, unless they're on the way to pick up a prearranged fare. how many do use the bus lanes when empty and not on the way to pick up a booking is anyone's guess.

    Wrong, they can also use them if "plying for hire", i.e. looking for a fare that might try to flag them down.


  • #109
    Kaisr Sose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,260 ✭✭✭Kaisr Sose


    The nuts and bolts of it is they use them empty. The law should be changed to say "may use a bus lane "only" when conveying a passenger and at no other time"

    Of course, the policing of that will never happen.


  • #110
    the boss of me
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 706 ✭✭✭the boss of me


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    empty taxis are not allowed use bus lanes, unless they're on the way to pick up a prearranged fare. how many do use the bus lanes when empty and not on the way to pick up a booking is anyone's guess.

    According to the NTA taxis are allowed use bus lanes in the course of their business. This includes carrying pax, on the way to a job or "plying for hire" . They're not allowed use lanes for personal use but that's hard to police.


  • #111
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    empty taxis are not allowed use bus lanes, unless they're on the way to pick up a prearranged fare. how many do use the bus lanes when empty and not on the way to pick up a booking is anyone's guess.

    Urban legend — or perhaps reality — is that taxi drivers keep an envelope in the glove compartment with an 'address' that they're supposedly going to.


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  • #112
    cython
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    Chuchote wrote: »
    Urban legend — or perhaps reality — is that taxi drivers keep an envelope in the glove compartment with an 'address' that they're supposedly going to.

    They're not allowed to use them to carry only goods and not passengers, so unless that is claimed to be the address of a pre-booked fare that happened to be noted on an envelope, having it there is no good to them.


  • #113
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    cython wrote: »
    They're not allowed to use them to carry only goods and not passengers, so unless that is claimed to be the address of a pre-booked fare that happened to be noted on an envelope, having it there is no good to them.

    Yeah, that's what it's supposed to be, in the urban legend.


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