Horse trading

[john m]

 According to somebody I know .Ross has been asked to look again at rideshare for rural Ireland in return for support for his drink driving bill .A lot of FG TDs are not in favour and there is concern that if Ross,s bill gets defeated and FG TD s didnt support a Government bill that there will be a vote of no confidence in the government .Ross has big problems with Cranny and Moran from his own party who dont support his bill .Could be fun and games soon Government will be defeated this evening by a FF bill on restoring pensions .

[john m]

Dep of Transport statement ..Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Mr Shane Ross TD, today met with key stakeholders* representing rural Ireland and transport groups to discuss ways of addressing transport in rural Ireland in order to enhance social life and combat rural isolation.

Minister Ross said;

“We all know that there are more alternatives to using one’s own car in urban than in rural areas.  Some possible solutions are car-sharing, vintner-provided transport, or wider rural transport solutions, but there are challenges for all of these options.  If solving the problem was easy it would have been done long ago, but I am heartened to hear some possible, and in some cases innovative, ideas from stakeholders today. These will be followed up with a view to analysing how effective they may be in tackling the problem.”

 

[mercenary for hire]

Uber is dead they're gonna   keep trying until they run out of money.Don't believe a word ya post anymore.

[john m]

Uber is dead they're gonna   keep trying until they run out of money.Don't believe a word ya post anymore.

UBER is far from dead .It will be floated on the NYSE in 2019 ,in a few months it will get its licence back in London and use that bit of good PR to relaunch Europe wide .If I had money I would buy shares in UBER .

[mercenary for hire]

You've no money to invest because you keep believing in nonsense.This is the shit that killed the other forum.I'm out..

[john m]

You've no money to invest because you keep believing in nonsense.This is the shit that killed the other forum.I'm out..

SEEYA BYEEEEEEEEEE

[john m]

dont say you were not warned ....https://www.rte.ie/news/2017/1018/913397-drink-driving/

[Taxi driver42]

Rideshare coming to a county pub near u
Not the old county though its a dub pub

Block the streets again

[john m]

what im hearing publicans will be allowed to apply for a rural hack licence without meeting the present requirements they will be allowed apply in their own name or nominate a local .

[john m]

Here is what was explained to me about the rural pubs .Publicans want to sell drink not drive taxies but they are worried if they give a lift home to a customer and have an accident can they be sued or their business be sued as you would need to be a customer of the pub ie bought drink to get a lift so what insurance covers you for the journey is it the car insurance or the pub insurance .As you had to make a purchase to get a lift is that lift considered to have been paid for by your purchase .

 If a publican purchases a separate van or car to drive his customers home does he need a hack or taxi licence ?What insurance ,road tax or capital depreciation can he claim .

Most publicans dont want to be bothered with driving customers home they want somebody else to do it but there are not enough taxies in rural Ireland or busses .The issue seems to be more  about liability than connectivity .

[Belker]

Just a thought, could Mr Ross encourage Mytaxi to expand it's coverage to include all of Eire ?

[john m]

I think the problem is some rural pubs are just too rural it wouldnt be worth a taxies while to cover them .If they change the rules so a publican can apply for a rural hack licence then they solve the insurance problem as the pub car is a licenced hack ,but what will the publican do with the car the rest of the time as its licenced will he work it and take the bit of work there is from the local taximan if there is one .

 Its more to do with insurance than anything else but TDs would like to see more public transport for their voters ,loosening up the rules for rural hacks to allow them even if there was a local taxi might be the thin edge of the wedge .A lot of TDs seem very concerned about rural transport after closing time but dont seem to be bothered how Mrs Burbridge will get down to Spar for milk and her lottery ticket and pension .Be interesting to see what Ross will do about rural transport now that drink driving will be an automatic ban ....There is always the chance the bill will pass there will be an election and it wont get signed into law .

[mercenary for hire]

The rural hack licence was designed for publicans.Drink drive ban is already there.Anything over a pint will put you over the limit.This is a non story.If you choose to live in the middle of nowhere you're not gonna have a Wetherspoons with a que of taxis outside.Tough shit.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

Publican hack..... 8 seater ? He`ll be fucked if he has 20 pax to drop home . West County Hotel supplied a mini bus service for locals in the 90`s.

[john m]

The rural hack licence was designed for publicans.Drink drive ban is already there.Anything over a pint will put you over the limit.This is a non story.If you choose to live in the middle of nowhere you're not gonna have a Wetherspoons with a que of taxis outside.Tough shit.

I think the story is TD s trying to look concerned and the Publicans who let them hold clinics in the Lounge free of charge are looking to see if they can get any few quid out of it .Watch Rosses mate Canny dont be surprised to see him leaving the Alliance and going back to FF.