MIG wrote:
On Feb 3, 4:58 pm, "John Rowland"
wrote:

MIG wrote:


Hailing taxis and having them dart over to the kerb is dangerous and
illegal in any case, regardless of any bus lanes.

It's not dangerous if the driver doesn't do it dangerously. As for it being
illegal ... what *are* you talking about? Are you thinking of minicabs?


I believe that minicabs can be hired by telephone or from the office,
while taxis can, in addition, be picked up at an authorised taxi rank.

I'm not aware of any kind of taxi that can legally be hailed in the
street, unless the rules have changed in the last few years.

Then you are simply ignorant of the law on taxis.

There. That's settled. And so quickly.

We all know that people do it, and turning a blind eye to it is all
very well,

Street hails for licensed taxis are *completely* lawful. "Blind eye"
doesn't come into it.

but changing the rules around bus lanes to accommodate it
is a different matter.

What you seem to suggest *would be* "changing the rules". Taxis are
operating according the "the rules" as they have been since at least
as far back as the nineteenth century.