"JNugent" wrote in message
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On 07/10/2015 20:00, tim..... wrote:
"JNugent" wrote:
On 06/10/2015 17:40, tim..... wrote:
"JNugent" wrote:
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.
So why have you spent the last 4 days saying that the law forbidding
this operation is a good law and should be kept?
You have a vivid imagination. I have said NO SUCH THING.
There is no law forbidding passengers -
I accept you said that as allowed. But it's pretty useless for most people
or a bona fide third party - from getting together to hire a shared taxi
and I have not suggested or state that there is (look above at the quoted
material if you want evidence of that).
But you said that this was forbidden, in the case where the this party was
the "rank" operator.
What the law says is that the driver or operator may not do the arranging.
but it not all right for me to use this method in London,
The Newark Method?
The only thing that stops you using it in London is that the airports
don't provide the service.
That is not what has been said here - if not by you by others.
tim