Vicki Dunne's mad taxi plan

My knowledge is limited but the best solution is to get Taxis Combined to run things like they do in the rest of Australia. Lack of drivers and cars need to be suplemented from Sydney because as usual Canberra lacks sufficient resources to provide an adequate level of service. I have a cousin well versed in these matters who could act as a concultant if required.

Presumably the brilliant plan is to make the peak taxi licences cheaper than the full ones. Given that the majority of money is probably made in peak time, I wouldn’t be surprised if all of the current drivers were lining up to swap to the peak licences…

Yeah – I thought 132227 was “Dial a frustration-induced tic.”

What ??? We have a TAXI service here?

They got around that in Dublin by offering the refund of the licence value as a tax rebate.

This required the cabbies to declare their income to get the rebate, ended up not costing very much at all.

But we are nowhere near as clever as the irish.

keeping the cost of a regular taxi licence high (for revenue purposes)

Not just for revenue purposes – think of the compensation that would be payable if the Government suddenly devalued all of the existing taxi plates, which operators have probably financed with debt on the anticipation of them increasing in value.