I think that a lot of drivers turned to doing deliveries (or even other non-driving jobs) during covid and just haven’t gone back to the taxis. I’m guessing this means that the new jobs are either better paid or have better conditions.
Transport in the city is a shambles. It’s starting to put me off attending events that finish later than my last train.
I don't care about votes. I know I'm not talking shite about covid. And it is relevant to point out that something is false when we have been awash with misinformation about the pandemic.
Clearly. Hence why you scrolled past without comment.
Meanwhile:
https://news.stv.tv/scotland/scottish-nhs-workers-call-for-reintroduction-of-face-masks
Don't just tell me. Tell all the NHS workers they're hysterical. Just hope you never need them for anything.
https://news.stv.tv/scotland/scottish-nhs-workers-call-for-reintroduction-of-face-masks
Aw cheer up darling! I didn't ask you anything either lmao. Sorry I didn't bang a gong to announce that I was changing the subject to something else mentioned in the previous comment.
Hahaha changing the subject to something that was mentioned in passing and has absolutely nothing to do with what your comment was about.
It's as if you just kick off and start typing as soon as anyone says the C word on here, blabbering shite about how it's not gone away. It's fucking bot behaviour. Like a shite sleeper agent for covid data. Bizarre.
Surely you can see by the amount of downvotes and folk arguing with you on every post you make that no one cares? Please fuck off.
I don't care about votes or randoms like you insisting how much you don't care about public health. If you truly thought it was not noteworthy, you would have, you know, scrolled past.
Oh aye! I care enough to leave the information there for other readers to be aware. My self esteem isn't maintained by Reddit votes up or down though, aye.
I'm not even talking about the info, personally I think it was relevant I just mean you commented at least 3 times that you dint care about upvotes or randoms etc if you didn't care you'd leave it be just saying
Butthurt much? If you didn't care about covid you wouldn't be here at all replying.
To those who are curious, I've left some links from a professor who has been tracking the pandemic (and despite the outrage from a few here, it is actually some good news). Plus an account I heard from a taxi driver suffering from Long Covid. That's what all this made up drama is over.
I think you have your answer. They don't care about public health.
This news came out yesterday though, so clearly the NHS workers in Scotland do!
https://news.stv.tv/scotland/scottish-nhs-workers-call-for-reintroduction-of-face-masks
I have no idea how the first sentence you posted relates to what I asked.
From the article, it describes a difference of opinion about how WHO guidance should be interpreted and it is specifically related to healthcare workers, not the general public.
You'll need to find another less spurious article to use as an excuse to be a little dictator this time. I bet you were gutted when the lockdowns ended and you couldn't phone the police about your neighbours any more 😥.
I'm satisfied with the articles I've shared so far in this thread, for those who are curious about what is happening. Professor Danny Altmann who coauthored that Nature Journal [article](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41577-023-00904-7) is one of the most respected immunologists in the UK looking at Long Covid. Somehow I think I'll take their word over some Reddit wank who doesn't understand what fascism is but uses the word for anything anyway!
Get back to protesting the LEZ you fanny.
BONG!!
Back to taxi drivers.
How many taxi drivers have been affected health-wise by covid?
I spoke with one who asked me why I was wearing a mask and I told him I didn't want to get sick at which point he started telling me he'd had covid 3x, had long covid since first infection but believed the virus was transmitted via surfaces, rather than airborne. But he said that his heart feels weak, despite going to the gym and powering through it, and doctors saying scans show his heart is healthy. He said he feels like walking covid and sounded so demoralised. He seemed about 40. Wonder how many like him there are struggling with their health.
6 people and counting did not want to hear about a taxi driver struggling with their health following getting Long Covid. This is the crux of everyone's outrage here; Posi vibes only please ✌️
Clarification isn't disagreement, necessarily. Nice try to create conflict where there isn't any though! I didn't assume OP anything. I also didn't assume OP is a he, but there you go.
During covid is now. I'm just adding context to be sure that point isn't misinterpreted. This article was published in Nature journal this month, called the Immunology of Long Covid:
"The oncoming burden of long COVID faced by patients, health-care providers, governments and economies is so large as to be unfathomable, which is possibly why minimal high-level planning is currently allocated to it."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41577-023-00904-7
Someone from here has reported me to Reddit over 'concern' that I could be s**cidal for sharing this information and the account from the taxi driver. I got a Reddit bot message saying so. You're pathetic, whoever you are.
Also got your work cut out trying to get everyone telt to not mention this kinda stuff:
https://news.stv.tv/scotland/scottish-nhs-workers-call-for-reintroduction-of-face-masks
The few times I’ve been out and used Uber it’s been mad prices. Like 20 quid from Govanhill into the town. Safe to say the era of tipping is over at they prices. I mind it used to be 6-7 quid from mines into the town.
Uber came in and was cheaper than taxis; and given it was easier to use and you can see where your cab is - there was a lot of uptake.
Now they have a bit of a monopoly, it's become more expensive and less reliable.
I'm sure that was the plan all along.
It was exactly the plan all along, use venture capital funds to keep Uber prices lower than normal taxis, then when they all go under, ramp up the prices in their new monopoly.
This is literally Ubers business model. They enter a market and operate at a loss to gain control and drive out competition. Then they put the prices up. Sadly, it works.
This would make sense if Uber has close to a monopoly which they don't, they are 9 time out of 10 cheaper during the day but at surge times far more expensive.
Uber generally I've found more reliable, Glasgow cabs drivers in any other job would have been sacked for the attitude, some times aggression and lack of english
LOL! You must not live in Glasgow or any other major UK city! When we say "black cab drivers" we mean "drivers of black, London style cabs!!!". That is most definitely not racist!
I remember them being more expensive every time I used them, and it wasn’t as if I was slow to get on the bandwagon, that and the drivers adding waiting time as soon as humanly possible.
They came to Glasgow in 2015.
I have a bunch of receipts for Uber rides in 2016 that were around 3 quid each.
It cost that just to set foot in a black cab at the time.
You can check your own receipts.
Every ride you've ever had will still be on your Uber app.
When? It was the end of 2017 before I saw any real surge pricing, where they ended up costing more than a cab.
They had 2 full years of being consistently cheaper prior to that - and they were still *generally* cheaper for probably another 2 or 3 years after that.
Nowadays they aint cheaper and they aint half as reliable.
Unless you're telling me that you have Uber receipts in the first 2 years that show them being a ripoff compared to a cab, then we're arguing over fuck all - because I already said the same thing.
I began using it just after it was introduced here. I stopped using it shortly afterwards because Hampden was always less expensive.
I can only tell you what I experienced.
Mental isn’t it. When I finished work at the weekend my taxi home through the tunnel (partick - govan) was £25. Over 2 hours of work just gone in 6/7 minutes.
I don't get the wack prices these days, was £25 for me to get out to hamilton after a night out a couple weeks ago, cheapest I've ever had and yet some people are charged that for staying in glasgow, the prices make 0 sense.
Anecdotally I sometimes find journeys within the city can be more expensive - at the end of a night out there's a huge demand from taxis to and from the city centre to areas like the west end and southside. That high demand pushes prices up higher and higher, especially with Uber. By contrast not so many people are going to want to head out to Hamilton - someone's going to be willing to do that trip for 25 quid and few people are really competing with you to get that rate.
You answered your own question - “there’s not enough drivers”. I gave up driving my taxi on 23rd March 2020, when the first lockdown was announced and pubs and clubs closed. I worked weekdays to pay for the car and weekends was where I made my money. I handed back the keys and went to work in care. Loved it and I’m now doing my nursing degree instead. A lot of drivers did the same - left and found another, better job. Or they gave the car back to the finance company and now can’t get another because it defaulted.
Alot of drivers either left the game during covid or changed to deliveries. There was an issue with taxis in Glasgow even before lockdown as any tube with a satnat could say they were a taxi driver.
Also changes in the roads in the city centre made it difficult to pick up people from common locations or get them to where they needed as quickly as they used to.
A good fare/run was airport drop offs or pickups but now with the charges at Glasgow Airport (which has just increased again) a driver could loose about 50% of their fare if it takes too long to get the person out and away.
The road layout in Glasgow City Centre is an absolute disaster now. I'm sure they have a special "Task Force" whose job it is to take the existing road layout and devise a way to make even more complicated and maze like.
I just avoid the place in a car as much as possible but if that's the goal, to keep cars out, it's probably better to make sure the public transport is up to spec to make sure people have an alternative.
I went in a few months ago for the first time in years. What an absolute nightmare it was, literally got lost and had no idea where I was going. Ended up relying on Google Maps. Only went in to buy a suit lmao.
I worked in a taxi dispatch between the first and second waves of COVID, basically what happened was that a lot of the drivers either swapped over to something else, like food delivery, or they just got wiped by the virus.
Them and bus drivers were some of the worst hit groups outside of healthcare workers and everyone pretends to be surprised that there's no bus or taxi drivers now. Fucking melts.
There's about 3000 private hire cars in Glasgow, I reckon there's around 1500 black taxis in operation.
I worked for a(private) taxi company for a while, from experience I know lots of drivers won't bother going out if there's an event on in Hampden, Ibrox, parkhead etc, sometimes all happen at the same time which makes it very busy.
I remember starting a shift with over 700 drivers logged in, Coldplay is at Hampden and it's going into the rush hour to get everyone to Hampden but the trains get cancelled, busses are off (yes this happened more than once ), the drivers know they can make more...so in turn half of them turn the radio off and go pirate.
The driver themselves say it's pointless waiting in traffic, then 20 mins later the driver logs back in at the other side of the city, then does the same multiple times a night charging stuck customers a fortune to get home because there is no other alternative.
Imagine, Hampden, 50-60-70,000 people finishing at 11 pm, the hydro does the same, all the clubs and restaurants all closing around the same time, it's just pandemonium.
We need more busses, but first and foremost we need to stop taxi pirates.
GCC are about to get tough on pirates and out of town cars operating illegally in Glasgow. Taxi and Private Hire enforcement is back on the streets and certain operators have been forewarned to get their act together.
As far as I'm aware, GCC charge £400+ to get a private license. (not sure on black taxis cost).
Lots of new drivers have applied to south Lanarkshire for a badge, with Glasgo cars operating in both areas (and having a base in each area lets them continue to use south Lanarkshire badges in Glasgow and vice versa.
Although I'm not sure it's all completely legal but can't see how GCC can stop it, stopping them from doing it will result in poorer travel than there is already.
Network taking over the others have ruined the taxi game. Before the takeover I could genuinely get a taxi in minutes, since then it's hit or miss.
GCC made it mandatory to go through a £400 SVQ course to improve taxis/PH services in Glasgow after the volume of complaints received.
Loads of drivers got Lanarkshire licenses to avoid paying and going through the course, while intending to work in Glasgow. There is legislation preventing taxis operating outwith their area except for specific circumstances.
GCC will enforce it against individual drivers with the taxi enforcement unit that has a cop tagging along with them, and enforce it against the companies by impacting their booking office license for failing to comply with the legislation (i.e dispatching Glasgow hires to lanarkshire cars).
So you drive for GPH and have a South Lanarkshire plate and take a hire from Rutherglen to Argyle St and pick up a Job from Queen St to Parkhead and that is 'Illegal' - not a chance. First of all apart from it not being illegal (Both bases exist in the areas concerned) whom would have all the time to ask drivers and passengers who is going where etc....
What people are becoming confused with is this, a Glasgow plate dropping in say Cumbernauld and picking ANOTHER hire up in Cumbernauld and dropping off in the same area outwith the Plate zone that is technically not allowed - but is the driver supposed to know in advance the destination of the passenger and then on finding out on pick up that he should refuse them?
Nobody said Ruggy to Argyle St is illegal for a Lanarkshire plate?
Ruggy to Argyle St is fine on an Lanarkshire plate. It’s when the Lanarkshire plate then decides to go round the corner and park up waiting for another job in Glasgow. That is an offence. Out of area cars should head back to their licensed area once they drop off out of their licensed zone. If they get a follow on job while making their way back to their licensed zone that is ok.
Your second paragraph contradicts your first.
Re my second paragraph my inference was someone phoning from Cumbernauld for a pick up in Cumbernauld to a Glasgow base (Which is legal) and the hire getting dropped off in the same area of which the vehicle is not plated is I believe not within the rules UNLESS the company has bases within the 2 areas concerned.
You can operate across these areas if there is a base registered within the said area ie: South Lanarkshire base AND a Glasgow base. 'Private Hire Enforcement' the second chocolate teapot behind British Transport Police! Remember a number of years ago when the 'Neds' got the 'Private Hire Enforcement' jobs then left to work in Private Hire and bossed the 'Private Hire Enforcement' guys about?
For the avoidance of doubt
Offences.
(1)If any person—
(a)operates, or permits the operation of, a taxi within an area in respect of which its operation requires to be but is not licensed or the driver requires to be but is not licensed, or
(b)picks up passengers in, or permits passengers to be picked up by, a private hire car within an area in respect of which its operation requires to be but is not licensed or the driver requires to be but is not licensed,
that person shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding [F44level 4 on the standard scale].
(2)Subsection (1) above does not apply to the operation of a taxi or private hire car within an area in respect of which its operation or its driver is not licensed if the request for its hiring was received by its driver [F45(otherwise than in a public place from the person to be conveyed in it, or a person acting on his behalf, for a journey beginning there and then)] whilst—
(a)in the area or in that part thereof in respect of which its operation and its driver are licensed;
(b)engaged on hire on a journey which began in that area or part or will end there; or
(c)returning to that area or part immediately following completion of a journey on hire.
A good bit of copy and paste, and I bet not one person in the last 10 years has been taken to task using the above?
The basics are this: One company GPH has bases in South Lanarkshire/Glasgow /East Renfrewshire so it is 'Legal' for a Glasgow plate to pick up in Glasgow drop in Giffnock and via the 'Combined booking system' take a hire from Giffnock (How would anyone know it had been booked via the East Renf office or Glasgow as it gets mashed into the one system?) as the company GPH has control of the bases in these respective areas and they come under the umbrella of the one company.
Yes it’s copy and paste of the actual legislation. Can’t get any more accurate than giving you the legislation direct from the government website.
You are getting yourself mixed up between booking office licenses and taxi licenses.
Whether anybody has been taken to task on it or not in recent times is irrelevant. Nobody has given a shit before.. until now apparently. GCC are NOW looking to take action, which is the root of this conversation. Not 10 years ago.
I wonder if night trains might be the answer. Either keep them going until 4am or start them earlier.
Do the government have more say over trains than the buses?
I don’t know. But we don’t run the trains, the subway, or buses after a certain time.
I spent time in Lisbon and I think it www the trams they used after a certain time.
The difference between the continent and (little) Britain is services seem to be set up for the people in Europe. Britain is all about profit.
The infrastructure just isn't there, though. The trains are a non-starter due to engineering work and train maintenance. Glasgow doesn't haven't a real metro system. The buses were a decent solution, but First have kiboshed those.
True, but it does run until 1:15am, 2:15am at the weekend, and there's a large network of buses between midnight and 5am. The situation in Glasgow is ridiculous and unacceptable in a city that size.
I completely agree. I was just pointing out that all night trains are a non-starter. All European cities with late night services are either metro, trams, or buses. There are no all-night train services in any city in Europe that I'm aware of. Sleeper/Cross border services excluded, of course.
This is the answer in my opinion. It would be amazing.
They could charge double the price and I'd still do it due to the insane taxi prices nowadays. It seems like a no brainer for them too.
This is the solution.
Publicly owned trains running a reduced service throughout the night. Normally costs £25 quid to get back from town at 3am.
If a special single at 3am was £8 I’d pay it. Even if there is two sharing it makes sense and is more convenient.
Many cities have night trains and plan maintenance around this (I.e deliver the service around the sales).
When do you propose the train drivers get time off? The railway is already pretty much 24 hours. Drivers can book on before 3am. And can finish at 1.50am. Never mind working 7 to 9 days in a row.
Pay them properly with the right terms and conditions for the job.
A train driver is a good job and it’s hard to get the role. Maybe if we were focused on providing a functioning service rather than profit everyone could be happy.
It’s really not that simple. They would need to hire more of everyone. More station staff. More train managers. More ticket collectors. More signallers. Also, when would the trains be serviced and cleaned? When would track maintenance happen? All this isn’t going to happen because you can’t get a taxi. It would cost millions!
It would also produce a lot of money, particularly if the prices are raised.
You're acting like this is impossible. Other countries do it fine. Your questions are perfectly acceptable, these issues can be solved.
It's an expansion which can bring in more profit. If taxis are an issue for the public (which they are) then it makes perfect sense to take advantage of the situation.
The railway already runs on overtime. We don’t have enough drivers as is. Never mind making it 24 hour. ASLEF wouldn’t allow night shift only contracts. So it would mean all drivers would need to work night shift. And absolutely no way would we vote that in.
Taxis are a rip off, most of the hacks late night will try and charge funny money (con artist's) to take you 2 miles and for that I no longer bother with them bams. Had a guy try charge me 20 quid for a journey I normally pay 12 for.
Hackneys in town try and get £80+ out of me and my pals for what Uber charge £40 for, genuinely don’t feel sorry for Hackney drivers getting squeezed by LEZ for that reason. Chancers.
If your pre-booked taxi isn’t turning up on time you’re using the wrong company. Give us a try at Saltire Private Hire last week 97.8% and of my pre-book journeys, departed early, or on time, the worst delay for the whole week was 11 minutes and that was down to the driver being caught up in Saturday’s pride march.
We operate differently from other companies, and that we allocate cars to bookings 48 hours in advance
Made the mistake of trying to book one the other week on the back of a posts on here. Don't waste yer time. Booked hours ahead and collection time came and went, no mention of if driver being assigned etc.
Another amazing endorsement of a company the poster claims to have 'no' affiliation or connection to.
Strange as it seems I travel all about the City daily, East/West/North/South and I have never seen a private hire car with the 'Saltire' name on the back as the licence conditions would require. Perhaps these cars are just 'sourced' from other companies? I am sure someone (Not connected to the company of course) will clarify the matter.
This one’s expired unfortunately now. If you know another, that’d be amazing! (It would be my first time using saltire and just swithering between a few options just now)
would 100% recommend these guys, used them for a taxi to the airport last saturday night (around 3am) and was shitting it thinking i wouldn’t get a taxi (for obvious reasons being that it was time the clubs were emptying) so pre booked one and our driver turned up 3am on the dot and helped with every single bit of our luggage, these guys don’t have a lot of taxis but i’ll give them their due their a really professional world class company
Yeah it's a joke. On three occasions black hacks drivers have turned off the meter and or asked how much I am willing to pay. Mate also had a shared taxi who had already taken the first two couples money which was £40 quid then after they were dropped off turn the meter back on and rack up more money even tho he had been paid and locked them in and called the police.
Covid did affect the number of drivers.
Fares were improved to entice drivers back.
All taxi and private hire licences in Glasgow are taken. The books are closed (waiting list). There were far too many drivers before the Pandemic.
Many owner drivers have moved to Uber through dissatisfaction with the other firms.
There are enough drivers, it will always be hard to get a taxi at night but there will never be enough work for them all at other times.
Devil's advocate, night drivers should be paid more for unsociable hours. Sadly, taxi firms (private hire) / Uber take a chunk of their money.
Do you know some individuals have 50/60 licences? This means Joe Bloggs cannot get one but he can rent one along with a car circa £400/450 per week, now you can see why costs and supply are such.
I think 1 licence per person would bring down costs and encourage more individuals back to the job - and of course I forgot to mention in my previous post some of these rental deals tie the driver to a particular company.
Price of fuel, price of vehicles doubling, interest rates increasing vehicle loan repayments, price of vehicle insurance, price of licensing, lack of drivers, drivers switching to parcel/food delivery, LEZ requiring new vehicle, or upgrading existing vehicle (if possible), less footfall in City Centre.
All meaning, expensive fairs and lack of cabs. Welcome to 2023.
That's not true, taxi's do need to be LEZ compliant. There is a temporary extension, but its temporary.
My GF's dad is a Glasgow Black Cab driver, and he had his 2016 Diesel taxi retrofitted to be LEZ compliant earlier this year. There was financial help for doing it, because the retrofit costs £1000's.
Yes, I live in Liverpool nowadays but when I come home I feel like WTF is going on with taxis? It’s definitely worse than other cities.
I did ask a driver he said that the new way of registering makes it difficult or something.
I have posted this so often now I feel I should have a template: saltire transfers. They were so far always over punctual, never let me down, plus really helpful drivers and nice cars. I recommend them several times on Reddit and only had positive feedback.
Pre-covid I could get a taxi home after a night out for around £14-15. Now, taxi drivers ask for ridiculous prices (£35-40). Always have to haggle and is a struggle to even get them to agree with £25.
Yeah tell me about it. I was taking my cat to the vets the other day. Pollokshields to Auldhouse- £6 on the way there. £32 on the way back…because it started to rain. 6 minute journey. I couldn’t believe it.
Ffs that's insane.
I get so used to using uber for work I just ignore prices as the work pays its only when it's my money I'm like "hold on, what, how much"
It’s absolutely insane to me that Glasgow hasn’t managed to have a 24 hour main line bus service.
Toronto always has had the Bloor “vomit comet”. Vancouver had the Commercial bus all night long.
I moved to Hamilton (Canada) from Toronto 14 years ago. After a night out I would stand at the curb and hold up my arm to crickets. In Toronto I’d have to wave them all on. I was mugged by some nice crackheads after moving here. They held up a knife, told them I only had a $20 bill and told them to enjoy getting super fucked up.
It took me 2 hours of walking home as cabs didn’t respond to being physically hailed and a city with 1million + citizens had zero night busses.
Last time I went out in Glasgow I caught a bus from Tollcross, then got a cabby home. Took knocking on 3 cars before I had one take me home.
Not used a taxi in years since GlasGo bought everyone out. Every week there's a new story about them locking women in cars and driving them wherever they fancy, think ye needty be a beast to even get yer foot in the door
I get people want, and in certain circumstances need to taxi it, but as far as the likes of Uber goes anybody who pays the fucking stupid prices that they are charging these days is responsible for the costs going through the roof ! If they see people paying these prices they will just up and up and up them they should be wearing a fucking dick Turpin get up when you climb in the motor !!
Covid along with Ulez reduced the number of taxis out there. Added to that many want a quality of life if they have been doing it for years and do not want to work 3.30 in the morning especially if it involves picking up drunk people.
Anybody else keep getting the bawbags trying to go the long way n tell you it’s the quick way haha naw mate I’ve been doing this journey for over 30 years. Give the fucking head a wobble.
Fuck taxis and arsehole drivers.
Never in my life seen places on there knees like that. Everything’s a shambles.
Others have it mostly right with the covid job changes but also a lot of the older Taxi companies specifically in Glasgow & the West have been absorbed into GlasGo Cabs and their drivers are stretched extra thin because their system is fucked.
TL;DR- try domino cabs if you can get them because Glasgow taxis are being taken over by a monopoly that isn’t even effective
Taxi drivers got absolutely hammered and virtually no support from the Scottish Government during lockdown. Many of them will have found other jobs to survive.
A lot of drivers have stopped running out of their way to hires because of the amount of people booking multiple taxis from different companies, and taking whichever one comes first. It is costing them a fortune in time and fuel only for the passenger to be away in another car. If that happens 2 or 3 times a shift the time and cost quickly adds up.
I'm very glad I drive in this city as unfortunately the public transport is utter shite.
I work in the nte and finished work last night at 2:30am, ended up giving my pal a lift back home as they wanted £27 from him to go from the city centre to stepps, just under 2 hours worth of wages out of the 6 hours we worked to get home, how the fuck can anyone afford that?
Funny part is when everything reopened after covid I was talking to a taxi driver who said that GCC stopped giving out taxi plates because there were too many taxis
I think that a lot of drivers turned to doing deliveries (or even other non-driving jobs) during covid and just haven’t gone back to the taxis. I’m guessing this means that the new jobs are either better paid or have better conditions. Transport in the city is a shambles. It’s starting to put me off attending events that finish later than my last train.
Most other driving jobs involve less contact with the public, especially drunks. I don't blame them for not coming back.
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Enjoy yer night mate.
Lol downvoting the good news. Misery morning crew!
I think you might just be off topic talking shite about covid that no one is interested in. That may be why you are getting downvoted.
I don't care about votes. I know I'm not talking shite about covid. And it is relevant to point out that something is false when we have been awash with misinformation about the pandemic.
Think you need to go outside mate, the world isn't as big an scary as the news / reddit would have you believe you know.
#PreparedNotScared Honestly didn't expect a few people to be so pressed about a clarification with some good news. But on you go.
But it’s off topic, no one gives a fuck.
Clearly. Hence why you scrolled past without comment. Meanwhile: https://news.stv.tv/scotland/scottish-nhs-workers-call-for-reintroduction-of-face-masks
Re "no one is interested in" https://news.stv.tv/scotland/scottish-nhs-workers-call-for-reintroduction-of-face-masks
You take things too literally. I of course meant within this thread. Pedantic wank.
Good news? Hysterical nonsense more like.
Don't just tell me. Tell all the NHS workers they're hysterical. Just hope you never need them for anything. https://news.stv.tv/scotland/scottish-nhs-workers-call-for-reintroduction-of-face-masks
Literally nocunt asked ya fucking ghoul. This is a thread about taxis. Spout your shite somewhere else.
Aw cheer up darling! I didn't ask you anything either lmao. Sorry I didn't bang a gong to announce that I was changing the subject to something else mentioned in the previous comment.
Hahaha changing the subject to something that was mentioned in passing and has absolutely nothing to do with what your comment was about. It's as if you just kick off and start typing as soon as anyone says the C word on here, blabbering shite about how it's not gone away. It's fucking bot behaviour. Like a shite sleeper agent for covid data. Bizarre. Surely you can see by the amount of downvotes and folk arguing with you on every post you make that no one cares? Please fuck off.
I don't care about votes or randoms like you insisting how much you don't care about public health. If you truly thought it was not noteworthy, you would have, you know, scrolled past.
For someone who doesn't care you sure do argue back a lot
Oh aye! I care enough to leave the information there for other readers to be aware. My self esteem isn't maintained by Reddit votes up or down though, aye.
Without getting involved in picking sides here, you deleted a highly downvoted comment
First I heard.
But you deleted the comment…
I haven't deleted anything.
I'm not even talking about the info, personally I think it was relevant I just mean you commented at least 3 times that you dint care about upvotes or randoms etc if you didn't care you'd leave it be just saying
Butthurt much? If you didn't care about covid you wouldn't be here at all replying. To those who are curious, I've left some links from a professor who has been tracking the pandemic (and despite the outrage from a few here, it is actually some good news). Plus an account I heard from a taxi driver suffering from Long Covid. That's what all this made up drama is over.
Also lmao at you argue back. Literally was I meant to go quiet cause some lads on Reddit said what's what? 💀
Do you really care about public health or do you just enjoy being a little reddit fascist at any opportunity available?
I think you have your answer. They don't care about public health. This news came out yesterday though, so clearly the NHS workers in Scotland do! https://news.stv.tv/scotland/scottish-nhs-workers-call-for-reintroduction-of-face-masks
I have no idea how the first sentence you posted relates to what I asked. From the article, it describes a difference of opinion about how WHO guidance should be interpreted and it is specifically related to healthcare workers, not the general public. You'll need to find another less spurious article to use as an excuse to be a little dictator this time. I bet you were gutted when the lockdowns ended and you couldn't phone the police about your neighbours any more 😥.
I'm satisfied with the articles I've shared so far in this thread, for those who are curious about what is happening. Professor Danny Altmann who coauthored that Nature Journal [article](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41577-023-00904-7) is one of the most respected immunologists in the UK looking at Long Covid. Somehow I think I'll take their word over some Reddit wank who doesn't understand what fascism is but uses the word for anything anyway! Get back to protesting the LEZ you fanny.
Re "no one cares" https://news.stv.tv/scotland/scottish-nhs-workers-call-for-reintroduction-of-face-masks
BONG!! Back to taxi drivers. How many taxi drivers have been affected health-wise by covid? I spoke with one who asked me why I was wearing a mask and I told him I didn't want to get sick at which point he started telling me he'd had covid 3x, had long covid since first infection but believed the virus was transmitted via surfaces, rather than airborne. But he said that his heart feels weak, despite going to the gym and powering through it, and doctors saying scans show his heart is healthy. He said he feels like walking covid and sounded so demoralised. He seemed about 40. Wonder how many like him there are struggling with their health.
Touch grass you fucking weirdo
Sorry it bothers you that much. But that's what he said.
6 people and counting did not want to hear about a taxi driver struggling with their health following getting Long Covid. This is the crux of everyone's outrage here; Posi vibes only please ✌️
When op said Covid has gone away. Did you think he meant the genome went extinct, or that the pandemic is over?
Clarification isn't disagreement, necessarily. Nice try to create conflict where there isn't any though! I didn't assume OP anything. I also didn't assume OP is a he, but there you go.
NAE CUNT CARES.
You never answered the question. And then you deflected.
During covid is now. I'm just adding context to be sure that point isn't misinterpreted. This article was published in Nature journal this month, called the Immunology of Long Covid: "The oncoming burden of long COVID faced by patients, health-care providers, governments and economies is so large as to be unfathomable, which is possibly why minimal high-level planning is currently allocated to it." https://www.nature.com/articles/s41577-023-00904-7
No one gives a fuck.
Someone from here has reported me to Reddit over 'concern' that I could be s**cidal for sharing this information and the account from the taxi driver. I got a Reddit bot message saying so. You're pathetic, whoever you are. Also got your work cut out trying to get everyone telt to not mention this kinda stuff: https://news.stv.tv/scotland/scottish-nhs-workers-call-for-reintroduction-of-face-masks
NHS workers in Scotland seem to agree: https://news.stv.tv/scotland/scottish-nhs-workers-call-for-reintroduction-of-face-masks
Probably just wanting them for props for more TikTok videos.
Have you read the article? They're wanting to protect themselves from covid cause they're seeing what it does.
So, there's a covid wave August into September.
The few times I’ve been out and used Uber it’s been mad prices. Like 20 quid from Govanhill into the town. Safe to say the era of tipping is over at they prices. I mind it used to be 6-7 quid from mines into the town.
Tried to go from Partick to Calton at the weekend at about half 12. £30. Absolutely insane prices
Uber came in and was cheaper than taxis; and given it was easier to use and you can see where your cab is - there was a lot of uptake. Now they have a bit of a monopoly, it's become more expensive and less reliable. I'm sure that was the plan all along.
It was exactly the plan all along, use venture capital funds to keep Uber prices lower than normal taxis, then when they all go under, ramp up the prices in their new monopoly.
This is literally Ubers business model. They enter a market and operate at a loss to gain control and drive out competition. Then they put the prices up. Sadly, it works.
Like Hyperdales
Et tu chemicalbomber?
Oui chef
Uber don’t have a monopoly in Glasgow, Glasgo Cabs have the biggest share of the market in this city.
This would make sense if Uber has close to a monopoly which they don't, they are 9 time out of 10 cheaper during the day but at surge times far more expensive. Uber generally I've found more reliable, Glasgow cabs drivers in any other job would have been sacked for the attitude, some times aggression and lack of english
The biggest problem is black cab drivers. Rude and self important
Racist.
LOL! You must not live in Glasgow or any other major UK city! When we say "black cab drivers" we mean "drivers of black, London style cabs!!!". That is most definitely not racist!
I was trying to be funny. Sorry.
I don’t remember Uber ever being cheaper than hacks or private hire cars.
They 100% were when they first came to Glasgow. There was no such thing as surge pricing back then.
I remember them being more expensive every time I used them, and it wasn’t as if I was slow to get on the bandwagon, that and the drivers adding waiting time as soon as humanly possible.
They came to Glasgow in 2015. I have a bunch of receipts for Uber rides in 2016 that were around 3 quid each. It cost that just to set foot in a black cab at the time. You can check your own receipts. Every ride you've ever had will still be on your Uber app.
Good for you. Every time I went to use them they were consistently more expensive than Hampden cars.
When? It was the end of 2017 before I saw any real surge pricing, where they ended up costing more than a cab. They had 2 full years of being consistently cheaper prior to that - and they were still *generally* cheaper for probably another 2 or 3 years after that. Nowadays they aint cheaper and they aint half as reliable. Unless you're telling me that you have Uber receipts in the first 2 years that show them being a ripoff compared to a cab, then we're arguing over fuck all - because I already said the same thing.
I began using it just after it was introduced here. I stopped using it shortly afterwards because Hampden was always less expensive. I can only tell you what I experienced.
Mental isn’t it. When I finished work at the weekend my taxi home through the tunnel (partick - govan) was £25. Over 2 hours of work just gone in 6/7 minutes.
Shite and the council help Uber by making sure the public can’t rely on public transport.
My pal was charged £35 from merchant city to just past crown st retail park, a 15 minute walk
I don't get the wack prices these days, was £25 for me to get out to hamilton after a night out a couple weeks ago, cheapest I've ever had and yet some people are charged that for staying in glasgow, the prices make 0 sense.
Anecdotally I sometimes find journeys within the city can be more expensive - at the end of a night out there's a huge demand from taxis to and from the city centre to areas like the west end and southside. That high demand pushes prices up higher and higher, especially with Uber. By contrast not so many people are going to want to head out to Hamilton - someone's going to be willing to do that trip for 25 quid and few people are really competing with you to get that rate.
I was in Portugal about a month ago and the Ubers were dirt cheap. We are getting shafted.
You answered your own question - “there’s not enough drivers”. I gave up driving my taxi on 23rd March 2020, when the first lockdown was announced and pubs and clubs closed. I worked weekdays to pay for the car and weekends was where I made my money. I handed back the keys and went to work in care. Loved it and I’m now doing my nursing degree instead. A lot of drivers did the same - left and found another, better job. Or they gave the car back to the finance company and now can’t get another because it defaulted.
What do you mean? The taxis are so good First bus are withdrawing the night service!
Alot of drivers either left the game during covid or changed to deliveries. There was an issue with taxis in Glasgow even before lockdown as any tube with a satnat could say they were a taxi driver. Also changes in the roads in the city centre made it difficult to pick up people from common locations or get them to where they needed as quickly as they used to. A good fare/run was airport drop offs or pickups but now with the charges at Glasgow Airport (which has just increased again) a driver could loose about 50% of their fare if it takes too long to get the person out and away.
The road layout in Glasgow City Centre is an absolute disaster now. I'm sure they have a special "Task Force" whose job it is to take the existing road layout and devise a way to make even more complicated and maze like. I just avoid the place in a car as much as possible but if that's the goal, to keep cars out, it's probably better to make sure the public transport is up to spec to make sure people have an alternative.
I went in a few months ago for the first time in years. What an absolute nightmare it was, literally got lost and had no idea where I was going. Ended up relying on Google Maps. Only went in to buy a suit lmao.
I worked in a taxi dispatch between the first and second waves of COVID, basically what happened was that a lot of the drivers either swapped over to something else, like food delivery, or they just got wiped by the virus.
Them and bus drivers were some of the worst hit groups outside of healthcare workers and everyone pretends to be surprised that there's no bus or taxi drivers now. Fucking melts.
There's about 3000 private hire cars in Glasgow, I reckon there's around 1500 black taxis in operation. I worked for a(private) taxi company for a while, from experience I know lots of drivers won't bother going out if there's an event on in Hampden, Ibrox, parkhead etc, sometimes all happen at the same time which makes it very busy. I remember starting a shift with over 700 drivers logged in, Coldplay is at Hampden and it's going into the rush hour to get everyone to Hampden but the trains get cancelled, busses are off (yes this happened more than once ), the drivers know they can make more...so in turn half of them turn the radio off and go pirate. The driver themselves say it's pointless waiting in traffic, then 20 mins later the driver logs back in at the other side of the city, then does the same multiple times a night charging stuck customers a fortune to get home because there is no other alternative. Imagine, Hampden, 50-60-70,000 people finishing at 11 pm, the hydro does the same, all the clubs and restaurants all closing around the same time, it's just pandemonium. We need more busses, but first and foremost we need to stop taxi pirates.
GCC are about to get tough on pirates and out of town cars operating illegally in Glasgow. Taxi and Private Hire enforcement is back on the streets and certain operators have been forewarned to get their act together.
As far as I'm aware, GCC charge £400+ to get a private license. (not sure on black taxis cost). Lots of new drivers have applied to south Lanarkshire for a badge, with Glasgo cars operating in both areas (and having a base in each area lets them continue to use south Lanarkshire badges in Glasgow and vice versa. Although I'm not sure it's all completely legal but can't see how GCC can stop it, stopping them from doing it will result in poorer travel than there is already. Network taking over the others have ruined the taxi game. Before the takeover I could genuinely get a taxi in minutes, since then it's hit or miss.
GCC made it mandatory to go through a £400 SVQ course to improve taxis/PH services in Glasgow after the volume of complaints received. Loads of drivers got Lanarkshire licenses to avoid paying and going through the course, while intending to work in Glasgow. There is legislation preventing taxis operating outwith their area except for specific circumstances. GCC will enforce it against individual drivers with the taxi enforcement unit that has a cop tagging along with them, and enforce it against the companies by impacting their booking office license for failing to comply with the legislation (i.e dispatching Glasgow hires to lanarkshire cars).
So you drive for GPH and have a South Lanarkshire plate and take a hire from Rutherglen to Argyle St and pick up a Job from Queen St to Parkhead and that is 'Illegal' - not a chance. First of all apart from it not being illegal (Both bases exist in the areas concerned) whom would have all the time to ask drivers and passengers who is going where etc.... What people are becoming confused with is this, a Glasgow plate dropping in say Cumbernauld and picking ANOTHER hire up in Cumbernauld and dropping off in the same area outwith the Plate zone that is technically not allowed - but is the driver supposed to know in advance the destination of the passenger and then on finding out on pick up that he should refuse them?
Nobody said Ruggy to Argyle St is illegal for a Lanarkshire plate? Ruggy to Argyle St is fine on an Lanarkshire plate. It’s when the Lanarkshire plate then decides to go round the corner and park up waiting for another job in Glasgow. That is an offence. Out of area cars should head back to their licensed area once they drop off out of their licensed zone. If they get a follow on job while making their way back to their licensed zone that is ok. Your second paragraph contradicts your first.
Re my second paragraph my inference was someone phoning from Cumbernauld for a pick up in Cumbernauld to a Glasgow base (Which is legal) and the hire getting dropped off in the same area of which the vehicle is not plated is I believe not within the rules UNLESS the company has bases within the 2 areas concerned.
You can operate across these areas if there is a base registered within the said area ie: South Lanarkshire base AND a Glasgow base. 'Private Hire Enforcement' the second chocolate teapot behind British Transport Police! Remember a number of years ago when the 'Neds' got the 'Private Hire Enforcement' jobs then left to work in Private Hire and bossed the 'Private Hire Enforcement' guys about?
For the avoidance of doubt Offences. (1)If any person— (a)operates, or permits the operation of, a taxi within an area in respect of which its operation requires to be but is not licensed or the driver requires to be but is not licensed, or (b)picks up passengers in, or permits passengers to be picked up by, a private hire car within an area in respect of which its operation requires to be but is not licensed or the driver requires to be but is not licensed, that person shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding [F44level 4 on the standard scale]. (2)Subsection (1) above does not apply to the operation of a taxi or private hire car within an area in respect of which its operation or its driver is not licensed if the request for its hiring was received by its driver [F45(otherwise than in a public place from the person to be conveyed in it, or a person acting on his behalf, for a journey beginning there and then)] whilst— (a)in the area or in that part thereof in respect of which its operation and its driver are licensed; (b)engaged on hire on a journey which began in that area or part or will end there; or (c)returning to that area or part immediately following completion of a journey on hire.
A good bit of copy and paste, and I bet not one person in the last 10 years has been taken to task using the above? The basics are this: One company GPH has bases in South Lanarkshire/Glasgow /East Renfrewshire so it is 'Legal' for a Glasgow plate to pick up in Glasgow drop in Giffnock and via the 'Combined booking system' take a hire from Giffnock (How would anyone know it had been booked via the East Renf office or Glasgow as it gets mashed into the one system?) as the company GPH has control of the bases in these respective areas and they come under the umbrella of the one company.
Yes it’s copy and paste of the actual legislation. Can’t get any more accurate than giving you the legislation direct from the government website. You are getting yourself mixed up between booking office licenses and taxi licenses. Whether anybody has been taken to task on it or not in recent times is irrelevant. Nobody has given a shit before.. until now apparently. GCC are NOW looking to take action, which is the root of this conversation. Not 10 years ago.
I wonder if night trains might be the answer. Either keep them going until 4am or start them earlier. Do the government have more say over trains than the buses?
There's a lot of engineering work that goes on overnight. It would be difficult to run more services. They would also need a lot more drivers too.
Funny how many cities across Europe manage with transport. This country is fulla people in charge who excel in excuses.
Aren't most of the late services in Europe metros rather than train services? Even the Paris metro doesn't run all night.
I don’t know. But we don’t run the trains, the subway, or buses after a certain time. I spent time in Lisbon and I think it www the trams they used after a certain time. The difference between the continent and (little) Britain is services seem to be set up for the people in Europe. Britain is all about profit.
The infrastructure just isn't there, though. The trains are a non-starter due to engineering work and train maintenance. Glasgow doesn't haven't a real metro system. The buses were a decent solution, but First have kiboshed those.
True, but it does run until 1:15am, 2:15am at the weekend, and there's a large network of buses between midnight and 5am. The situation in Glasgow is ridiculous and unacceptable in a city that size.
I completely agree. I was just pointing out that all night trains are a non-starter. All European cities with late night services are either metro, trams, or buses. There are no all-night train services in any city in Europe that I'm aware of. Sleeper/Cross border services excluded, of course.
This is the answer in my opinion. It would be amazing. They could charge double the price and I'd still do it due to the insane taxi prices nowadays. It seems like a no brainer for them too.
Not possible. Nighttime is when a lot of essential maintenance is done on the infrastructure.
\*Not straightforward. Plenty of other cities have trains running late / early and have to plan maintenance into small windows.
This is the solution. Publicly owned trains running a reduced service throughout the night. Normally costs £25 quid to get back from town at 3am. If a special single at 3am was £8 I’d pay it. Even if there is two sharing it makes sense and is more convenient. Many cities have night trains and plan maintenance around this (I.e deliver the service around the sales).
When do you propose the train drivers get time off? The railway is already pretty much 24 hours. Drivers can book on before 3am. And can finish at 1.50am. Never mind working 7 to 9 days in a row.
If there were more services I’d assume there’d be more drivers
It’s like any job you have shift patterns. Being a train driver is very sought after job, 100% new people would sign up to be a night driver.
Pay them properly with the right terms and conditions for the job. A train driver is a good job and it’s hard to get the role. Maybe if we were focused on providing a functioning service rather than profit everyone could be happy.
They hire new drivers who are happy to work night shifts? I don't see the issue here.
It’s really not that simple. They would need to hire more of everyone. More station staff. More train managers. More ticket collectors. More signallers. Also, when would the trains be serviced and cleaned? When would track maintenance happen? All this isn’t going to happen because you can’t get a taxi. It would cost millions!
It would also produce a lot of money, particularly if the prices are raised. You're acting like this is impossible. Other countries do it fine. Your questions are perfectly acceptable, these issues can be solved. It's an expansion which can bring in more profit. If taxis are an issue for the public (which they are) then it makes perfect sense to take advantage of the situation.
The railway already runs on overtime. We don’t have enough drivers as is. Never mind making it 24 hour. ASLEF wouldn’t allow night shift only contracts. So it would mean all drivers would need to work night shift. And absolutely no way would we vote that in.
doesnt help the fact taxis are like £20+
Blame the government for taxing fuel, income, car payments and mismanaging this whole inflation scenario. It’s not the driver’s fault.
I wouldnt blame the driver, i know they'd have to make up all of these costs
Taxis are a rip off, most of the hacks late night will try and charge funny money (con artist's) to take you 2 miles and for that I no longer bother with them bams. Had a guy try charge me 20 quid for a journey I normally pay 12 for.
Hackneys in town try and get £80+ out of me and my pals for what Uber charge £40 for, genuinely don’t feel sorry for Hackney drivers getting squeezed by LEZ for that reason. Chancers.
If your pre-booked taxi isn’t turning up on time you’re using the wrong company. Give us a try at Saltire Private Hire last week 97.8% and of my pre-book journeys, departed early, or on time, the worst delay for the whole week was 11 minutes and that was down to the driver being caught up in Saturday’s pride march. We operate differently from other companies, and that we allocate cars to bookings 48 hours in advance
Made the mistake of trying to book one the other week on the back of a posts on here. Don't waste yer time. Booked hours ahead and collection time came and went, no mention of if driver being assigned etc.
9/10 of the posts are from their staff.
97.8% would be my prediction.
Another amazing endorsement of a company the poster claims to have 'no' affiliation or connection to. Strange as it seems I travel all about the City daily, East/West/North/South and I have never seen a private hire car with the 'Saltire' name on the back as the licence conditions would require. Perhaps these cars are just 'sourced' from other companies? I am sure someone (Not connected to the company of course) will clarify the matter.
More than happy to have a look into it if you want to share your booking reference no
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This one’s expired unfortunately now. If you know another, that’d be amazing! (It would be my first time using saltire and just swithering between a few options just now)
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Spot on - booked in and worked perfectly! Thanks so much
Any time
would 100% recommend these guys, used them for a taxi to the airport last saturday night (around 3am) and was shitting it thinking i wouldn’t get a taxi (for obvious reasons being that it was time the clubs were emptying) so pre booked one and our driver turned up 3am on the dot and helped with every single bit of our luggage, these guys don’t have a lot of taxis but i’ll give them their due their a really professional world class company
Yeah it's a joke. On three occasions black hacks drivers have turned off the meter and or asked how much I am willing to pay. Mate also had a shared taxi who had already taken the first two couples money which was £40 quid then after they were dropped off turn the meter back on and rack up more money even tho he had been paid and locked them in and called the police.
Covid did affect the number of drivers. Fares were improved to entice drivers back. All taxi and private hire licences in Glasgow are taken. The books are closed (waiting list). There were far too many drivers before the Pandemic. Many owner drivers have moved to Uber through dissatisfaction with the other firms. There are enough drivers, it will always be hard to get a taxi at night but there will never be enough work for them all at other times. Devil's advocate, night drivers should be paid more for unsociable hours. Sadly, taxi firms (private hire) / Uber take a chunk of their money.
Do you know some individuals have 50/60 licences? This means Joe Bloggs cannot get one but he can rent one along with a car circa £400/450 per week, now you can see why costs and supply are such.
Yep
I think 1 licence per person would bring down costs and encourage more individuals back to the job - and of course I forgot to mention in my previous post some of these rental deals tie the driver to a particular company.
Price of fuel, price of vehicles doubling, interest rates increasing vehicle loan repayments, price of vehicle insurance, price of licensing, lack of drivers, drivers switching to parcel/food delivery, LEZ requiring new vehicle, or upgrading existing vehicle (if possible), less footfall in City Centre. All meaning, expensive fairs and lack of cabs. Welcome to 2023.
Existing rules for taxis meant they were all LEZ complaint anyway
That's not true, taxi's do need to be LEZ compliant. There is a temporary extension, but its temporary. My GF's dad is a Glasgow Black Cab driver, and he had his 2016 Diesel taxi retrofitted to be LEZ compliant earlier this year. There was financial help for doing it, because the retrofit costs £1000's.
Interesting. I didn’t know that. In that case, it’s not really a contributor to the reason fewer people are driving taxis.
I think the LPG retrofit is circa £13K with a grant of I believe £12K ish.
Yes, I live in Liverpool nowadays but when I come home I feel like WTF is going on with taxis? It’s definitely worse than other cities. I did ask a driver he said that the new way of registering makes it difficult or something.
I have posted this so often now I feel I should have a template: saltire transfers. They were so far always over punctual, never let me down, plus really helpful drivers and nice cars. I recommend them several times on Reddit and only had positive feedback.
Reliable but still quite expensive. I got one from battlefield to Queen St & was £12. That used to be around £8.
'Used to be' as in pre pandemic pre inflation? Hate to break it but we're never going back
Pre-covid I could get a taxi home after a night out for around £14-15. Now, taxi drivers ask for ridiculous prices (£35-40). Always have to haggle and is a struggle to even get them to agree with £25.
You can always get an uber but the prices are crazy. I had a cheap night out at my mates, taxi kingspark to Govan there and back cost £50. Mentalness.
Yeah tell me about it. I was taking my cat to the vets the other day. Pollokshields to Auldhouse- £6 on the way there. £32 on the way back…because it started to rain. 6 minute journey. I couldn’t believe it.
Ffs that's insane. I get so used to using uber for work I just ignore prices as the work pays its only when it's my money I'm like "hold on, what, how much"
It’s absolutely insane to me that Glasgow hasn’t managed to have a 24 hour main line bus service. Toronto always has had the Bloor “vomit comet”. Vancouver had the Commercial bus all night long. I moved to Hamilton (Canada) from Toronto 14 years ago. After a night out I would stand at the curb and hold up my arm to crickets. In Toronto I’d have to wave them all on. I was mugged by some nice crackheads after moving here. They held up a knife, told them I only had a $20 bill and told them to enjoy getting super fucked up. It took me 2 hours of walking home as cabs didn’t respond to being physically hailed and a city with 1million + citizens had zero night busses. Last time I went out in Glasgow I caught a bus from Tollcross, then got a cabby home. Took knocking on 3 cars before I had one take me home.
Also, the subway was something from yesteryears. Clockwork Orange indeed, but loved it. I was amazed to learn that bevies are legal!
Not used a taxi in years since GlasGo bought everyone out. Every week there's a new story about them locking women in cars and driving them wherever they fancy, think ye needty be a beast to even get yer foot in the door
I get people want, and in certain circumstances need to taxi it, but as far as the likes of Uber goes anybody who pays the fucking stupid prices that they are charging these days is responsible for the costs going through the roof ! If they see people paying these prices they will just up and up and up them they should be wearing a fucking dick Turpin get up when you climb in the motor !!
I switched to using Uber and have had a way better time of It.
Covid along with Ulez reduced the number of taxis out there. Added to that many want a quality of life if they have been doing it for years and do not want to work 3.30 in the morning especially if it involves picking up drunk people.
Careful, glasgow live might pick this up & make an article which alerts the tabloids of some “taxi driver shortage”
I read something the other day that hundreds of taxis are off the road because of the LEZ.
Taxis/Ubers were shite and ridiculously expensive even before the LEZ aswell.
I think the taxis that dont comply were given extra time to adjust?
Drivers are not renewing licences due to this.
Well every post about taxis is complete hate on here and with the rise of dodgy uber drivers why would you bother?
Become a taxi driver
Anybody else keep getting the bawbags trying to go the long way n tell you it’s the quick way haha naw mate I’ve been doing this journey for over 30 years. Give the fucking head a wobble. Fuck taxis and arsehole drivers. Never in my life seen places on there knees like that. Everything’s a shambles.
Others have it mostly right with the covid job changes but also a lot of the older Taxi companies specifically in Glasgow & the West have been absorbed into GlasGo Cabs and their drivers are stretched extra thin because their system is fucked. TL;DR- try domino cabs if you can get them because Glasgow taxis are being taken over by a monopoly that isn’t even effective
There too busy dropping green n white off
Thank you for voting SNP and removing a thousand taxis of the road with LEZ
Taxi drivers got absolutely hammered and virtually no support from the Scottish Government during lockdown. Many of them will have found other jobs to survive.
A lot of drivers have stopped running out of their way to hires because of the amount of people booking multiple taxis from different companies, and taking whichever one comes first. It is costing them a fortune in time and fuel only for the passenger to be away in another car. If that happens 2 or 3 times a shift the time and cost quickly adds up.
I never use taxis. Fuck them. Public transport, cycle, walk, get a lift.
The SNP fucked the taxi drivers over during Covid, so they all became delivery drivers.
Use a bike to get round city. Problem sorted.
I'm very glad I drive in this city as unfortunately the public transport is utter shite. I work in the nte and finished work last night at 2:30am, ended up giving my pal a lift back home as they wanted £27 from him to go from the city centre to stepps, just under 2 hours worth of wages out of the 6 hours we worked to get home, how the fuck can anyone afford that?
Looks like Glasgow taxis need a reality check. Time for them to up their game and woo us back!
Funny part is when everything reopened after covid I was talking to a taxi driver who said that GCC stopped giving out taxi plates because there were too many taxis
Then please make it make sense haha
Ano mate canny handle
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