On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 08:57:47AM -0800, MIG wrote:

Last time I used the Hotel de Posh, it had it's own driveway where
they could pull in.

Many Hotels des Posheaux do, or at least have a designated taxi drop-off
area, but that designated area is the same place that taxis hang around
(perfectly legitimately) to pick people up, so a driver dropping a
passenger may have to stop outside the designated area.

And there's bound to be a few exceptions which don't have anything. And
then there's the eleventy zillion places people want to go to and from
that aren't hotels and certainly don't have a driveway. Restaurants,
for example.

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On Mar 2, 12:40*pm, David Cantrell wrote:

And there's bound to be a few exceptions which don't have anything. *And
then there's the eleventy zillion places people want to go to and from
that aren't hotels and certainly don't have a driveway. *Restaurants,
for example.

Which people might also wish to park their car outside, but they can't
because traffic flow is more important.

If stopping and loading are not permitted, this should be for all
vehicles.

Neil

On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 06:13:48AM -0800, Neil Williams wrote:
On Mar 2, 12:40=A0pm, David Cantrell wrote:
And there's bound to be a few exceptions which don't have anything. And
then there's the eleventy zillion places people want to go to and from
that aren't hotels and certainly don't have a driveway. =A0Restaurants,
for example.
Which people might also wish to park their car outside, but they can't
because traffic flow is more important.
If stopping and loading are not permitted, this should be for all
vehicles.

Yeah, that's great in theory. In practice, there's a huge difference
between a large lorry stopping for 20 minutes to unload several
days worth of goods, and a cab stopping for a minute or two. Even
having several cabs do that causes far less disruption.

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On Mar 3, 12:16*pm, David Cantrell wrote:

Yeah, that's great in theory. *In practice, there's a huge difference
between a large lorry stopping for 20 minutes to unload several
days worth of goods, and a cab stopping for a minute or two. *Even
having several cabs do that causes far less disruption.

It can still cause a lot of disruption. And a car driver isn't
allowed to stop to drop off (though they may still do it anyway),
which takes a fraction of the time it takes to complete the
transaction and leave a taxi.

Neil