On 06/10/2015 17:40, tim..... wrote:
"JNugent" wrote in message
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On 05/10/2015 20:48, Neil Williams wrote:
On 2015-10-04 22:21:04 +0000, said:
We couldn't find a mechanism to manage this, even from the station
with its legendary taxi queues.
At the station might it have just about worked to put up a sign saying
something like "Why not ask others if they will share your taxi to keep
costs down and keep things moving? Wait here if you'd like to do this."
- leaving it to the passengers to get together to hire a taxi and split
its fare, and thus making it legal?
That might work, though there is a real risk that unlicensed touts
would interpose themselves and start offering "service".
Incidentally, there is a working system at Newark Airport where a
despatcher (employed by the airport) allocates passengers/groups of
passengers to taxis with a flat fare (flat by the vehicle, not per
capita) to specific places. That's places, not addresses. The last
time I used it I paid $45 from the airport to a NJ city on the Hudson.
Oh, so it's all right for you to take advantage of it in the US.
Indeed. And if LHR decided to do the same here, I'd support that -
mainly because it would be lawful, whereas allowing the driver to do it
would not be.
but it not all right for me to use this method in London,
It's *perfectly* alright for you or anyone else to use such a system
(where an independent third party does the matching and pairing).
for no other
reason that because you don't think it should be allowed to be offered.
Oh dear...
You weren't thinking, were you?
I can only repeat:
what a hypocrite!
That must be a self description, because it certainly does not describe
my logical and consistent stance.