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Call Sign Sept 12 September 2012 KKaarreenn mmoottoorrccyycclleess rroouunndd EEuurrooppee ttoo hheellpp tthhee MMSSSS Call Sign September 2012 Page 2 NASH’S NUMBERS From Alan Nash (A95) After a terrible time workwise during the Olympics, we need to know where the work may be this month and try and make up for August. This is a table of some “What’s on” in September, but see the bottom of page for more info... “What’s On September 2012” (Compact list: See base of page for how to get more) Only 54 events listed above, but for a comprehensive list of over 350 events including the Paralympics, visit www.nashsnumbers.co.uk and click the “MyFav Taxi” button, which will load the MyFav Taxi page with over 70 iconic link buttons to useful taxi related information including the “What’s On in September “ button. Call Sign September 2012 Page 3 from the editor’s desk Looking back at the Olympics... when everyone says yes and not just a few who Well that’s it for another 84 years – the main part want to charge ridiculously low prices to where of the Olympics are over and our hopes for some they live in case they happen to be going home at extra July and August work courtesy of the Games the time. Quoting £30 to Luton because you live must have fallen on deaf ears! The Olympic Route there would be stupid, but reasonable prices may Networks proved to be successful because they bring back some longer trips. killed London’s business and leisure outlets stone dead, with most folk deciding to take note of the New taxis Mayor and keep well away from the capital. By the There are several new cabs on the horizon and it time David Cameron had backtracked telling the concerns me. The Nissan NV 200 looks like it world that London was, after all, open for busi - could be a winner with its 50mph diesel usage – ness, it was too late! although I’m not too sure about the passenger’s But against all that, the Games themselves were panoramic roof with the number of pigeons we absolutely brilliant and probably deserved the pass in London! However, its fuel consumption title many have placed on them as the best and cleaner emissions, plus a probable lower Olympics ever. And the excellent BBC TV cover - price than its two rivals could give it an edge. But age – especially of the road events that caused what if the Mayor says it is still a 15-year subject taxis so many problems – will probably bring in a for eventual disintegration? host of future tourists. Athletes running through Then there’s the electric Metrocab that has the City and places such as Leadenhall Market bly involves closing Copacabana Beach to tourists been touted for some time next year? That proba - together with cyclists shooting through the Surrey and making it an ORN!!! bly will escape any time limit as will the Hydrogen TX4, scheduled for final testing prior to release in countryside, made London look absolutely beau - GetTaxi and cut prices... 2013. And of course we have the diesel TX4 and tiful and hopefully that will draw people in. Call Sign the Vito. That doesn’t mean that LOCOG are forgiven for knows from your letters and emails that Hailo My concern is that there are some months treating taxis as second class citizens and quite a number of you are on and doing cut- when just 80 or 90 new taxis are sold and all honestly, had it not been for John Mason and priced taxi work. I also understand that some - times you do what you have to do to eke out a liv - those manufacturers are not going to survive in those working under him acting on our behalf, such a small market. The Vito is also sold to mini - we’d have had virtually nothing – especially so far ing and whilst I personally dislike working cheap in London when what we offer is a five star taxi cabs, so Mercedes won’t worry, but the others are as ranking facilities were concerned. all 100% taxis. The resulting war could see some And another thing, I was very disappointed to service, I do not condemn anyone who feels that Hailo is a useful tool whilst conditions are so of them going under and eventually we will find get a PCN for doing a U-turn at (what I believe ourselves back with just the one or two taxi man - Park Lane quiet. I just hope that when business finally picks was) Brook Gate. The details said: ufacturers. (NBND) no U-turn to Park Lane (SBND) up, any damage to the trade will not be irrepara - and that I But, and that is something of a big but, if the failed to comply with a prohibition on certain types ble. But I was shocked at the recent message sent to Mayor is so concerned about emissions and is of vehicles . That meant a taxi and an ORN. I was happy to spend money all over the show, perhaps GetTaxi drivers under the guise of fighting pri - more disappointed because the PCN hasn’t come he could subsidise all new taxis by around £5000? vate hire - pay £10 for airport trips from hotels! from Westminster, whom we expect to be picked Then the number of drivers wanting to renew on by, it comes from TfL and a camera operator There are some drivers out there who have been would jump through the roof. Compared to the has used CCTV to nick a licensed taxi doing its doing that for years, but I have always assumed money it would save, the outlay would be mini - job. I believed that as we had been given permis - them to be in a minority. Yes, we have lost account mal. But I’m not holding my breath! sion to turn right along that stretch – again thanks airport trips because our prices are expensive to work by LTPH - that also meant the U-turn facil - compared to many private hire companies who Inside this issue ity. Of course, as the PCN fails to say exactly at are able to subsidise those trips via their cash ride Laurence Kelvin (W88) has expressed a view on which junction this appalling act took place, TfL’s prices, which are much closer to taxi fares. the Olympics inside this issue that is somewhat PCN department are just wasting everyone’s time. GetTaxi’s answer to fighting PH is to deduct £10 different to most others that have appeared in the But I have the time if they have! from their agreed fixed price fare (plus £1 that mag. We also have a rather astonishing response Boris was very quick to use taxis in the Beijing you pay to GetTaxi to buy a cash ride) and they from TfL as to why one company was given a thir - closing ceremony, while a Fairway was turned will give it to a hotel doorman / concierge on your ty year contract to carry out maintenance to the into the star of London’s brilliant opening cere - behalf. He, in turn, will give the driver a fixed Limehouse Link (as reported in the August Call mony when it ferried James Bond to Buck House price airport trip that the driver will have paid £11 Sign ). The letter, sent to DaC’s John Addis – not to mention the Spice Girls at the closure! for. (K97) , could well send the Plain English Society Posh and co didn’t stand on buses; in fact there The example I was shown involved a trip from over the edge! Ok, it isn’t as bad as the piece from wasn’t one on show (I want to buy the one that Chelsea to Terminal 5 at Heathrow. The usual a professor of English at the University of Chicago Baby Spice stood on)! fixed price on GetTaxi is £64, so after your £11 who famously told pupils: “If for a while the ruse Yes, the London Olympics as a show were bril - deduction, you are left with £53 - always assum - of desire is calculable for the uses of discipline, soon liant, but that doesn’t excuse LOCOG kicking us ing that’s what the driver charges the passenger. the repetition of guilt, justification, pseudo-scientif - around and forcing us to drive around in a dan - Ok, £53 isn’t terrible in the current climate and ic theories, superstition, spurious authorities and gerous manner by constantly having to look for let’s be honest - many of our LAP prices are too classifications can be seen as the desperate effort to various signs to see where we could and couldn’t high. But who would you want to benefit by a cut "normalise" formally the disturbance of a discourse go. Instead we should have been concentrating priced trip to the flyers – GetTaxi, a hotel door - of splitting that violates the rational, enlightened on the road ahead! man or the passenger? Well, from where I’m sit - claims of its enunciatory modality.” But TfL’s The 2016 Games have already been won by Rio ting, this scheme offers no incentive to the pas - Limehouse Link explanation still drove us batty! and ROCOG is already in action there having senger to use licensed taxis again; it just lines the And of course, there’s much more... begun its tenure at London’s Somerset House on pockets of greedy doormen or hotel concierge Fuel prices our Games penultimate day – and good luck to and earns more £1 LAPs for GetTaxi.
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