Following is a brief outline of PHCA’s tariff proposal; You, the public, and the drivers may comment on-line or give feedback directly to Mark Selley, Steve Baines, Gary Slater or Paul Gunson. If you wish to do so, the closing date is 31 August 2011.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
The flagfalls have been unchanged since 2004.
Council have advised they are not prepared to see yardages reduced any further.
For daytime journeys (T1) the average fare is £4-00, for nightime (T2) it is £6-00 (these are approximate).
On an average week, 5 days, Fri and Sat night, a driver will do approximately 100 jobs of which about 45% have extras.
For jobs with extras, the average number of passengers is 3.
PROPOSAL SUMMARY
Tariff 1, flag increase to £2-20
Tariff 2, flag increase to £3-00
Tariff 3, remains, double Tariff 1.
Extras increase from £0-20 to £0-30 (roughly equates an extra £9-00 pw). The public will be informed that extras are NOT to be applied for shopping bags and boxes, or suitcases unless carried outside the passenger compartment.
Preston City Council have advised that calendar controlled taxi-meters will be introduced with the next tariff increase. To offset the impact, particularily for rail drivers, we will propose an ATI (automatic tariff increase) on tariff 1. After travelling 2.5 miles, the yardage incremental will increase. Although drivers may see a slight reduction on short out of town journeys, they will gain on longer journeys.
Mark Selley
Seems reasonable to me. No rise in 7 years? About time you got one then.
I’ve no problem with modest rises from time to time -we all need to make a decent living. I get a taxi most days and what winds me up more than anything is the additional fare Shen I go home to penwortham. If the price goes up again then I for one will probably defect to the radio cabs. Sorry!