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From: JNugent on 6 Jun 2010 19:20 Dave Plowman wrote: > In article <872g2rFhjsU1(a)mid.individual.net>, > JNugent <JN(a)nonexistentaddress.com> wrote: >>>> You *have* to be joking! >>>> Extending the length of a journey (for a passenger paying a metered >>>> fare) is a specific offence under the London Cab Acts. And quite right >>>> too. Why do you think passengers take taxis in the first place? > >>> I'd suggest you use a cab now and then over the same journey. And see >>> if they always take the same route... > >> That is not the deliberate and unnecessary extension of a journey. Going >> with a paying passenger from point A to point B via point X because the >> driver wishes to to stop there and use the toilet would be an offence. > > Yes, pet. Wriggle away. You really do know nothing about the law, don't you? But you don't you let that stop you preaching about it, of course.
From: Dave Plowman on 6 Jun 2010 19:23 In article <_62dnXDNzc4stpHRnZ2dnUVZ8uCdnZ2d(a)bt.com>, Brimstone <brimstone(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > "Dave Plowman" <dave(a)davesound.co.uk> wrote in message > news:5123592bdbdave(a)davenoise.co.uk... > > In article <872fr0FfhlU2(a)mid.individual.net>, > > JNugent <JN(a)nonexistentaddress.com> wrote: > >> > Given the cab didn't stop outside a house or shop etc door, the > >> > passenger would still have to walk to his final destination. > > > >> You don't know what he wants to do next. > > > > And nor do you. I, however, observed the whole thing while stuck behind > > this selfish driver. > > > What leads you to suppose it was the driver being selfish rather than > the passenger demanding that he stop "this instant"? Because less than a car length either way would have prevented blocking the road. Nor did he do a panic stop. Of course he may not have been deliberately selfish. Just inconsiderate to other road users. -- *A woman drove me to drink and I didn't have the decency to thank her Dave Plowman dave(a)davesound.co.uk London SW 12
From: Derek Geldard on 6 Jun 2010 19:57 On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:23:41 +0100, Dave Plowman <dave(a)davesound.co.uk> wrote: >> What leads you to suppose it was the driver being selfish rather than >> the passenger demanding that he stop "this instant"? > >Because less than a car length either way would have prevented blocking >the road. Nor did he do a panic stop. Of course he may not have been >deliberately selfish. Just inconsiderate to other road users. I.M.E. totally oblivious. Derek
From: Dave Plowman on 7 Jun 2010 05:21 In article <872on3Fvu1U1(a)mid.individual.net>, JNugent <JN(a)nonexistentaddress.com> wrote: > > The bus driver ends his work period at the bus garage. A taxi driver > > at his home. What is the fundamental difference? Except that the bust > > driver has to work to the hours in his contract of employment - a taxi > > driver decides when he starts and finishes work. > By referring to a timetable, a bus driver knows where he will be, and at > what time. The taxi-driver cannot know in advance where he will be. See > if you can work out why that is. A taxi driver can decide where he wants to be. A bus driver not. If that taxi driver decides he needs a break of any kind, he can take it when *he* wants - unlike a bus driver. What is it that makes this so difficult for you to grasp? -- *You! Off my planet! Dave Plowman dave(a)davesound.co.uk London SW 12
From: JNugent on 7 Jun 2010 12:00
Dave Plowman wrote: > In article <872on3Fvu1U1(a)mid.individual.net>, > JNugent <JN(a)nonexistentaddress.com> wrote: >>> The bus driver ends his work period at the bus garage. A taxi driver >>> at his home. What is the fundamental difference? Except that the bust >>> driver has to work to the hours in his contract of employment - a taxi >>> driver decides when he starts and finishes work. > >> By referring to a timetable, a bus driver knows where he will be, and at >> what time. The taxi-driver cannot know in advance where he will be. See >> if you can work out why that is. > > A taxi driver can decide where he wants to be. Bzzzzt! Wrong. He can only do that if he stops working and effectively clocks off from earning a living. Whilst he is working, he cannot know where he will be next. > A bus driver not. If that > taxi driver decides he needs a break of any kind, he can take it when *he* > wants - unlike a bus driver. What is it that makes this so difficult for > you to grasp? It's actually very little to do with bus-drivers, despoite your attempts to narrow the topic in that direction. Bus-drivers (and, where they still exist, bus-conductors) can have a problem with calls of nature (that has been accepted at every stage), but at least the predictable natire of their day's work ameliorates that and some attempt is made to address the problem (with the stop at each end of the route). The problem faced by taxi-drivers in Central London is not the same as that faced by any other group of workers. But we already know your "solution" to the problem is: charge thenm a �60 prking fine for using the toilet. |