Calls to stop local taxis from being licensed outside of Bolton as changes unveiled

Calls to stop local taxis from being licensed outside of Bury as changes unveiled

Mayor of Greater Manchester has called on the Government to stop 'out of the area' taxi licensing as he said England's 'broken taxi system' must be fixed to make private hire vehicle industry in Bolton and across the region the 'safest and most trusted in the country'.

Calls to stop local taxis from being licensed outside of Bolton as changes unveiled

Mayor of Greater Manchester has called on the Government to stop 'out of the area' taxi licensing as he said England's 'broken taxi system' must be…

“A BROKEN SYSTEM”: Greater Manchester to launch taxi campaign against rise in out-of-area licensing

Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham has announced new plans to address the growing issue of out-of-area private hire licensing, which is affecting the city-region’s control over its taxi and private hire network.At a press conference alongside Bury Council Leader and Clean Air lead Cllr Eamonn O’Brien, Burnham revealed that 49% of private hire drivers currently operating in Greater Manchester are licensed by authorities outside the region. One…

The system is broken

On a bright, chilly morning in Cambridge, England, a few weeks ago – as a New Yorker “Talk of the Town” piece might have it – about 150 people gathered at the University of Cambridge’s Computer Laboratory, a place not nearly as exciting as it sounds, for a one-day symposium to celebrate the life and work of Ross Anderson, FRS FRSE FREng and, until his untimely death last year, professor of security engineering at the university. It was an odd mi…