The NoW Card

[Neil]

What was the taxi screw up, I must have missed that?

[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by Mick

I had to go to my doc's today, bus stop nearest is willows lane
Ticket said church to Crown ?
I was not even going into town

What we need to know is how is this information recorded in the ticket machine, IE destination versus fare charged, what is the diference in the fare from Church to Crown as opposed to your journey to the Docs.

[Mick]

Originally Posted by Retlaw

What we need to know is how is this information recorded in the ticket machine, IE destination versus fare charged, what is the diference in the fare from Church to Crown as opposed to your journey to the Docs.

I could not tell you as I use a NoWcard but I think its about £1-25p from the stage "church" which includes Lonsdale St where I get on to town.

[DaveinGermany]

It all sounds like a zone thing (they do that on some of the public transport here) as opposed to a blatant con. If you board at any stop within a certain zone, the price is a fixed rate to any stop within another zone, so the actual boarding/alighting stop is largely immaterial.

Then again, I could be badly wrong.

[Mick]

I think its the same here, but the destination on the ticket "Crown" is know where near the stage I got off at "Willows Lane" I would say its 4-5 stages further on

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Barrie Yates

Surely someone should be investigating this alleged corrupt practice - but hopefully not the HBC employee who screwed up the Taxi Fare increases at considerable cost to the public purse.

One hopes that someone has the responsibility for overseeing local transport.

As an aside - the money lost on the taxi screw up would probably have paid for the subsidised trips to Blackpool etc. - so who pays for a screw up by a jobsworth, well of course it is the poor public.

Every time Barrie, every time, yet I haven't heard to many of our elected power brokers explaining, wonder where they've gone

[Barrie Yates]

Originally Posted by Neil

What was the taxi screw up, I must have missed that?

HBC did not publish changes for a number of years to taxi fares as they are required to do by law. Rather than be taken to court they have agreed to refund a considerable sum (£300K ?) to all the taxi drivers/owners - which is sensible as it means legal fees are not added in to the cost.

Sounds as though some jobsworth failed to carry out his/her responsibility and there was no oversight carried out.

I am sure that if I had caused any of the companies I have worked for to lose that amount because of my negligence I would have received my termination letter.

[JCB]

Originally Posted by Barrie Yates

HBC did not publish changes for a number of years to taxi fares as they are required to do by law. Rather than be taken to court they have agreed to refund a considerable sum (£300K ?) to all the taxi drivers/owners - which is sensible as it means legal fees are not added in to the cost.
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This is a link to LT article about taxi licensing fees

Admin blunder means payouts totalling £210,000 to Hyndburn taxi drivers (From Lancashire Telegraph)

[Mick]

Can we please get back on thread this is about the Bus and the NoW card not the Taxi service thanks

[shillelagh]

ok I was nosying around looking for information on the bus fare increase that came into being this weekend .. cant find nowt on the lcc website as usual .. and I came across this ....

12. Reimbursement rate

The reimbursement rate for services starting within the TCA's area of Lancashire County
Council, Blackburn with Darwen Council and Blackpool Council will be

56% from 1 April
2013 and 55% from 1 April 2014. This rate includes all elements of reimbursement and
additional costs.
Should an operator appeal against this rate in relation to additional costs or otherwise
submit a separate claim for additional costs, then the TCAs reserve the right to recalculate
the reimbursement rate for that operator as it has been applied for whatever
period the TCAs consider to be reasonable and offset any over-payment arising from the
application of reimbursement rate set out herein against the sum due to the operator in

relation to its claim for additional costs.

http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/environ...ransport/1.pdf

[Less]

You think that's important?
Had you got down the Railway early instead of sleeping in, you could have seen Mick's reaction to being charged an extra 20p on his pint!
Price increase? I'd have paid a translator to have told me what those words meant in plain English.

[shillelagh]

don't ask me to translate owt ... I have to get the spugster to translate Scottish ...