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Old October 24th 16, 05:49 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Taxi drivers protest outside TfL
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(Neil Williams) wrote:

On 2016-10-24 08:58:55 +0000, said:

The, as far as I can see, main reason for not using the meter is to
make costs of long journeys outside the city cheaper than they would be
on the meter and predictable at the outset. Imagine the meter rate for
a trip from Cambridge to Heathrow for example!

No, the main reason for not using the meter, in Milton Keynes, is to
defraud drunk passengers by overcharging them.

That's the same reason it is often not used in other countries, too.

For a hackney carriage within the Milton Keynes local authority boundary
that would be illegal.

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