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Roland Perry · April 18th 17, 04:05 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In message , at 09:53:14
on Tue, 18 Apr 2017, remarked:

The licencing authority doesn't want tourists arriving at the
station
to be greeted by a load of scruffs in beaten up taxis.

The train company, more likely. They control access to the station
forecourt. It's not part of the public highway.

No, it's the council.

On what basis do you make that mendacious claim?

Reading between the lines of the article in the Ely Standard.

In Cambridge, I gather a few hire cars are signed up to Uber but the
established firms seem to have the market pretty well sewn up. Within
the city they

The Uber ones?

No. Hire cars licensed by the city council AIUI. I am assuming that Uber is
relying on existing operators' cars.

Perhaps so, because they have to be licenced by someone.

But would a car licenced to a council far away be allowed to be an Uber
in Cambridge, and to use their app rather than charging on the meter?

After all, the latter would almost completely destroy their proposition.

go by the meter.

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Roland Perry