On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 06:43:13PM +0100, Mizter T wrote:
On 25/04/2016 14:52, d wrote:
David Cantrell wrote:
On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 06:13:47PM +0100, JNugent wrote:
There's always been a good case for the advance booking period for a
so-called "private hire car" to be at least twenty-four hours.
No there hasn't.
Imagine, for example, that you are in an industrial estate in Peckham.
There are no black cabs cruising the industrial estate looking for
passengers.
How do you get home?
Bus or train?
Yep, David's managed to come up with a rather odd way to put forward the
argument against Mr Nugent's much odder and totally unworkable proposition.
You are aware, I trust, that some people prefer sometimes to use a cab?
Sometimes because of laziness, sometimes because it's just the most
efficient way to travel.
Consider Peckham to Poplar, for example. Going by car is the fastest
method. Or Peckham to Thornton Heath, the bus is a joke taking nearly an
hour, and the train is only competitive with cabs if you're starting
next to a station and finishing next to a station.
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