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Dartford taxi fares expected to increase and double on Christmas Day (From This Is Local London)
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Dartford taxi fares expected to increase and double on Christmas Day
10:34am Thursday 18th October 2012 in News By Alan Woods
The flag rate is expected to rise by 20p.
TAXI fares in Dartford may increase by 20p next month and double on Christmas and New Year’s Day if drivers get their way.
Drivers are proposing to increase the flag rate – the fee paid when people initially hire a taxi for the first mile – from £2.20 to £2.40.
In an application to Dartford Council, drivers are also applying for double fares to be chargeable on Christmas Day and New Years Day.
The application has been put forward after just one taxi driver was available in Dartford on Christmas Day last year.
Back then, rates could only be charged at the usual night fare plus an additional £4 paid to drivers over the Christmas period.
If the application to increase the cost of all fares by 20p is given the nod by Dartford Council’s cabinet next Thursday (October 25), it will be the first increase since 2009.
Drivers say rising fuel and insurance costs and falling passenger numbers are the reasons behind their application to increase fares.
But before the extra cost is passed on to punters, the council is recommending an online and media consultation with the intention being for new fares to come in from November 19.
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1:23pm Thu 18 Oct 12
Dartbored
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1:28pm Thu 18 Oct 12
Brian Sewer3 wrote:Could we possibly have this in English? Many thanks
I know a lot of black cab drivers m8s just like us we all know the score why the mini cab try 2 rip of the black cab trade m8s good luck 2 the black cab trade
Tom_Perfect
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2:01pm Thu 18 Oct 12
Dartbored wrote:Eligible to me. A hackney carriage driver peeved off with minicab companies.
Brian Sewer3 wrote:Could we possibly have this in English? Many thanks
I know a lot of black cab drivers m8s just like us we all know the score why the mini cab try 2 rip of the black cab trade m8s good luck 2 the black cab trade
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Lukeyboy wrote: Lord, Erastus Theobald Piggott is amongst us....I can feel his presence....I wish he was, I miss the old guy. There will only EVER be one, our very own world champion Lord Erastus Theobald Piggott. OBE, VD and scar.
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12:14pm Thu 18 Oct 12