Are there too many taxi's in accrington?
 

i was drivin home from work at around half 2 three and the queue of hackney cabs went all up the taxi rank - past the library on both sides and spilling over into cannon st - i was just astonished at the line up

fairly there was a few cars that were parked up but not many

should there - or is there - a quota that the council sets for the amount of taxi's? just a huge ridiculous amount of cabs...

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far too many... also what really winds me up is " how much do you normally pay" all cabs should have clocks in then you know where you stand ( or sit)

I have yet to pay the same fare when going home....

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I think if you took all the taxis off the road which are not road worthy there would substancially (sp) less of them driving about...and I have never before in my life ever haggled a taxi price like you do down here...
me - so how much is that ?
driver ' much do you normally pay ?'
me - bout £4..
driver ' call it £4.50
me - £3.50
driver - £3.75
me..err ok...??
..I wouldnt dream of doing it in glasgow as I would either get locked in a drove to the police station or given a punch on the chin for being a cheeky beggar !....

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mind you last time I was in Glasgow there were loads of cabs... and I thought really cheap: but it was a few years ago:

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That really bugs me too.

'How much is that please?

'What do you normally pay boss?'

'A pound.'

Silence.

'It'll be three fifty then boss.'


All cabs/taxis should have meters in my opinion.

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arent all taxi's meant to be less than 3 yrs old or something?

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Our taxis are supposed to be 3 years old or under but that rule differs from council to council, i dont tink blackburn taxis have an age limit

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some of the drivers are ( but not all there are some good ones):p

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It's not to bad in town you can get one for between £2.50-£3.00 a pal of mine get's one to Haslingden for a fiver, what realy bugs me is if they know and the usualy do know, there is no, or a poor bus sevice to the destination ie; Royal Blackburn Hospital and similar places they really screw you, the best thing to do is ask the boss for a price. As for the age do the taxis over 3 years old not have to have an extended MOT, (taxi test)?

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I'd rather have loads of taxis than none at all. In Glasgow it was murder, sometimes literally, to get a cab after a night out.

At least we never have to wait long to get one.:)

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It would be interesting to know what percentage of these cash fares from non metered cabs are declared for tax and National insurance purposes and also how many of these drivers are drawing other state benefits

:rolleyes: :rolleyes:

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there are so many in accy you cant be sure when you get into them if they are actually licensed vehicles

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3 easy steps.....

Yellow plate on the back

license badge round drivers neck ( with picture on)

and company name badges on side of car.

If you're ever un-sure, take driver name and number and don't get in.

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Sometimes find that its getting to convenint to get a cab instead of a short walk to the bus stop or walking anywhere for that matter.A bit expensive too.Yesterday,on my Saturday afternoon trawl round Accys pubs i forked out £9 on taxis.Thats my only gripe with Taxis,and its good to see these spot checks taking place to take unsafe cabs off the road.

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there still is but glasgow is a huge city with over 600,00 folk in it...and all cabs have meters in them thus making sure you know what your paying...and you know what your getting into..
and garinda...it always pays to book a taxi..theres nothing worse standing in a taxi rank at 3 am waiting in a line with 100 drunks in front of you..

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yeah i know that slinks but to someone who's drunk on there way home they wouldnt have a clue

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I think we have a lot of taxis in Accy but surely there must be a need for them otherwise it wouldn't be cost effective for the drivers. I would rather them all be metered cause I hate it when they say "your usual" when you dont know what that is.

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Are you sure all them taxis are from Accrington? They might be from Blackburn or Rossendale or Burnley and they've brought a fare over so they stay on taxi rank to get a fare back?

By the way i thought all taxis had to have meters?

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I know, thats why I bought a flat in the West End, as it was staggering distance home from the city centre, and I had some very interesting conversations with the working girls along the way, some of whom I became quite friendly with.:D

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try living in Germany
My son paid 14 Euro for the first taxi ride home and paid 6-8 euro since then.
live and learn

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hackney cabs have to be metered. private hire dont, at least that used to be the case when i was a macs driver.;)

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IIRC don't cars have to be under 3 YO when they are first registered as a taxi but can continue as long as they pass the Taxi MOT.

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ooooooooh...lad-de-da:D ..I
"I bought a flat in the west end"...dont you know, by the way:D :D :D snooty git !!..where bouts in the leafy west end did you buy it mate ?
if I won the lottery I would buy one there and have it as a crash pad...
and I dont wanna know about your sordid interventions with the (ahem) working girls...and do you not miss it up there..the west ends great for a wander and a beer,or jump on the underground into 'ra toon' cracking little shops down byres road etc..and please don tell me you had that kid on pretencious west end accent that the snobs from there put on..:D
I am from the totally opposite end of the city and the scale of things...the dreaded east end of glasgow !!:eek: ...so dont mess right !!;) :cool:

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I lived just near Kelvinbridge in the West End. New apartment, bought off plan. Two beds, two bathrooms, top floor. Great views of the city on one side, and the University on the other. Best of all it was walking distance from the city centre clubs, and Byres Road/Ashton Lane for trendy wendy bars and shops.

My non-descript English accent was never a problem, even with my East End gangster mates.:D

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thought long and hard about the title of this thread and the answer is NO. not on bloody new years eve there aint.;)

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thats when they all take a night off cashy..pmsl give em a break lol!!!!:D

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I don't know about too many taxis but we definitely have too many take-away/kebab shops. Whilst walking through town on Saturday night, I noticed that most of these kebab shops were empty of customers. Surely the people of Hyndburn aren't scoffing kebabs every night. how do these shops make a profit, how do they recoup their running costs? I have a theory that some of these places are just fronts for more sinister dealings, money laundering etc...:D

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no lettie its where the stray/ snaffeled pets end up.:D

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do you know lettie you may have a point there....:confused: its the same over here loads of kebab shops, burger bars etc and they,re always open throughout the week (out of season) and i often wondered how they keep going......ummmm cherokee goes off with very suspicious mind now....:)

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Not to sure.. if you are money laundering you would hear the washing machines rumbling.
In the long gone past a few of us would go down to Blackburn..end up in the then Top Hat club.. come out way after time and all the indian resturants would be shut .. but a knock on the door can bring some surprises .. like a small bowl of grub and a card game.... don't forget these places may have closing times but the staff are just finishing the shift.. night is day to them

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I couldn't help but read that a la Paul Merton. :D



All these empty kebab shops are probably doing home deliveries.



If you think Accy is overrun with taxis you want to try Tunisia! It's hilarious in the major towns and tourist areas. If you walk along the pavement a taxi will pull up alongside and the driver ask "Taxi? You want taxi?" - even if it means them crossing over to the wrong side of the road they do it! You say "No thank you, I'm not going far" and they look at you like you're mad and still insist you need a taxi. Try telling hem you are actually out for a walk because you enjoy walking and they're convinced you should be admitted to the local mental asylum. One day in Sousse we'd only just got out of a taxi at the medina as we were going to do a bit of shopping and another taxi immediately drew up and offered to take us somewhere! The driver must have seen us getting out of the previous one!! :D Er, no thank you. We've only just arrived! The only place you're safe from them is inside the medina where cars cannot go - but then you have to fight off the people trying to sell you tortoises or 'very rare' imitation Roman artefacts. :D

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Sounds like just the place I like to avoid, had similar experiences with sellers (not taxis though) in Morocco.

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No, but I do feel the same, haven't been since 78 and I was only a child then but it put me off.

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from max taxi accrington

1 of the chepest taxi firm in accrington

our minimum fare is £1.50

accrington to accrington £1.50
accrington to great harwood £5
accrington to royal blackburn hospital £5
accrington to rishton £4
accrington to blackburn town center £5.50
accrington to oswaltwisle £2
accrington to black dog oswaltwisle £2.50
accrington to stanhill oswaltwisle £3
accrington to knuzden £3.50
accrington to huncourt £2
accrington to huncourt village £2.50
accrington to hapton £4
accrington to burnley £7
accrington to burnley hospital £8
accrington to manchester £20
accrington to manchester airport £25
accrington to preston £18

Max on edgar street accrington next to railway pub,

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i think its good that we have a lot of taxis as it lessens the chance of getting in a cab with that pervert sex offender that got given his taxi licence back by hyndburn council the other year :rolleyes:

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Sorry and no offense intended to Max taxi , but I can remember the days when there were things called Accrington Corporation Buses that served all parts of the the Borough (Hyndburn) for less than 2 shillings (10d)per trip and they ran on a regular 15/20 minute schedule , never heard once of any trouble (last bus Friday/Saturday night) folks knew how to behave or were 'turfed off' and had to walk .
Seems to me looking back (maybe through rose coloured glasses ) you could get off the Ossy bus and jump onto the Haslingden (sp?) bus with a 5 minute connection time in either direction .
The prolification of taxi services in a western society seems to me to be a regressive step backwards to third world standards where community standards have failed .
sorry just my thoughts on the subject :confused: :confused:

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I lived in Clayton for 21yrs and never took one taxi. Spent my bus fare (plus) at the chippy and walked home from Accrington stuffing my face .... and I only fell in the cut twice. And the colors of the Accrington Corporation Transport were the regimental colors of the East Lancashire Regiment, a memorial to the Pals, if memory serves me right ... if it serves me wrong, Retlaw will pick up on it. And almost every stop coincided with a pub .... loved Route No. 1, Forts Arms to the Black Dog: a pint of Thwaites at each end.:drunk: Maybe the glasses weren't rose colored, but they held a pint.

Isn't there a little syntactical redundancy in "regressive step backwards"? Just a little pedantry on a beautiful, drunken, late summer night.;):D

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Bushmills is on sale/special at my new Sikh owned liquer store $17.99 per liter ;) :D

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I hope the £5.50 rates from Blackburn are the same at 3am.. :D

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As a student can you afford it? :p

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its expenses spug expenses.:D seriously my next door neighbour who is a taxi driver, moved his labours oer to manchester a few months ago, citing the fact there was too many taxis in hyndburn n was earning next to nowt, was talking too him last week n he told me it aint great but a damn site better than what he earned here, even with cost of commuting.

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I wonder if as a result of Accy's 'Taxi Wars', which doesn't sound as exciting as Glasgow's 'Ice cream Wars' (a raspberry ripple and a shooter please), when asked how much the fare is at the end of a journey, the driver will reply with the 'How much do you normally pay boss?'

I think I'll try fifty pence next time.

:)

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I got a taxi last tuesday morning to Accy Station. Being the nice man that I am, I exchanged the usual pleasantries with the driver about the weather, etc and then asked him if he'd been busy that morning.

"Pretty quiet", he replied, "but we'll be busier bext week when the school runs start".

"Eh?" I thought to myself. Taxis taking kids to school! What the hell is wrong with walking, or catching the bus? Schools have not changed their location in the Borough over the last 40 years or so and to take a taxi then was unheard of.

Can anyone advise of the extent of this practice? When did this nonsense start? And who is paying for it - please don't tell me the local ratepayer. And is it any wonder that some of the grossly obese kids I now see around the streets of Hyndburn would put our fat yankee cousins to shame.

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I think you will find the school runs are for kids with special needs who quite often attend schools out of town. Taxi firms put a tender in for the contract.

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That is quite understandable, but it was not the impression I got from the driver. Has anyone seen these taxis pull up at the local schools in the morning or at 4PM? If so, how many?

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no i avoid those areas like the plauge at those times, but i do see quite a few bringing home special needs kids in our area.

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I have seen the odd one when picking the grandchildren up but think it is just parents collecting their own children.

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When I want a taxi I need a firm I can rely on, its no good charging half price if they don't turn up because they are to busy, I have and always will use Hyndburn Cars, they have never let me down and I've been using them since I gave over driving 14 years ago

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i agree.. from clayton to steiner street max's charge £2.50 get the bus and its £1.90.. with the unreliabilty of (unaptly named SPOT ON) buses you may as well pay the extra 60pence

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Ah .... good price ..... :D

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Taxi Licensing is corrupt and the taxi wars are political. I could spend hours discussing the corruption.

Whens the next AccyWeb meet? Perhaps we could invite Clr Britcliffe? The Council employ people to monitor this site btw.

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Bloody Hell! For once I find myself agreeing with the esteemed councillor. He can no doubt list his reasons and most of them will tie in with mine. The important thing is that that no one should have resource to use these things while there is alternative public transport available.

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Shocker !

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Am i hearing this right do you mean The council employ people to monitor this Accy web site.

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pmsl..:D..the council don't need to "employ" people to monitor this site or any local web site..Tory grasses do it for free :rolleyes:

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It's also called buying votes

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how can there ever be to many taxi's..at least it keeps em off the streets :D

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Obviously not, or they wouldnt need to employ someone.

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well I took another look at that post and it does say "employ"... cor blimey guv.. we could have an "Accywebagate" on our hands!

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Female logic, totally nonsensical, as usual.

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I would fully understand this topic if it were discussing the taxi drivers in Spain.
The Spanish Drivers have a complete control of the system.
Corruption does not enter the senario.
Good driver you maybe but if you are not a Spanish National and cannot speak fluent Spanish you will not be considered for a licence.

I think the same rules should be applied in the UK.
I have not come across the situation where a British Bus Driver has been offered a position in Spain.
Spain for the Spanish seems to be the order of the day.

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Just for the record Mancie.
Spain is governed by a socialist, protectionist government who shied away from its commitments to its EU partners.

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that seems to be all in order Royboy..but most taxi drivers in Spain have basic English.. like it would be a waste of time getting into a taxi in Accy or anywhere else in Britain only to find the bloke driving can't understand what you are saying... but how many taxi drivers in this country have even basic Spanish?.. not many.

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Drivers in Benidorm have basic English I agree but drivers in the rest of Spain will not understand.
Hey I understand your humour and take it as such, that is not the point.
Granting of licenses to anyone should be controlled the same way as bus licences are controlled.
The London Taxi Driver test comes to mind, or is that too polictical?
I believe thats called 'The Knowledge'?

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would disagree wi that mancie as far as southern spain goes, very few have any command of english.

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Not many Accy taxi drivers have a command of English, either.

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disagree wi that, use em regular most have command of basic english, ya may not like that but its fact.

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to be honest southern spain never crossed mi mind.. I got the impression that Roy was stating that the Spanish taxi drivers need to speak Spanish...but that ain't no good to an English tourist if the cab driver don't speak any English.. and the same thing goes here. I suppose I'm saying that we all take it for granted that people understand English.

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disagree wi that, use em regular most have command of basic english, ya may not like that but its fact.
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So is their spoken English as good as your written English?

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What's the pay like? :D

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You should know.

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irrelavant was comparing to spanish taxi drivers not having any command of english in general.

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I'm wondering if I'm getting underpaid! :D

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Why should the dagos have any command of English? They have their own language, let them stick to it. Let them also stick to their greasy Spanish sardines, and keep their hands off fine English Cod. Let's us on this island, set in a silver sea, kick 'em out of our waters, never to return

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i dont see why they should as far as employment goes Spain has certainly got things better than us.

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A lot do but will not admit it unless it is to their advantage.
I lived next door to a Spanish Police Officer for five years and drank with him most nights.
He would never admit that he could speak English.
One night an English yob tried to steal my car and this officer arrested him.
I was most taken aback when the officer read him the riot act in English.
Never, never underestimate the law in whatever country.
Taxi drivers in Accy are not above the law and if there is corruptiion it should be jumped on and quickly.

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Sounds just like the ethnics over here when it comes to claiming the dole.

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i knew a "Guardia Civil" just like that.:)

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Geez.. you actually believe that? then you are even more naive than I thought. There might be people employed within the council, wthin whose remit it is to guage public opinion, which may include checking Accyweb, alongside the local newspapers...but come on...

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hang on.. is there anyone here that expects a taxi driver in Mongolia to understand English?.. yes,

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I'm saying nowt.:D;)

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this is about taxi's.. not some relvoutionary chocolate biscuit.

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Why are you asking about Mongolia? We live in an English speaking country, surely it is not to much to expect our taxi drivers first language is English? How did they manage to pass the driving test if they can't speak basic English or read road signs for that matter?

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Actually yes i did believe it as it came straight from the horses mouth, may be naive but whats wrong with that,the trouble with this world the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

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Came from the horses mouth but interpeted by you as gospel that someone is actually employed for the sole purpose of Accyweb checking? give me a break.

please explain your comment:
"the trouble with this world the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."

so you are cocksure are you...about what?

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spot on.. and so what are people complianing about when they turn up in Spain and the driver don't speak English... it's all uneven..I don't get up Accy to often but the drivers I've had do speak English..now if they don't know the way to where you want to go it can be a problem.. but that has been a problem since taxis started.

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Are you.

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About what?

I have the ability to know how to the decipher a post and take it for what it really means. If that makes me cocksure and stupid then I hold my hands up.

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employ is a strong word to use..

if i report somthing worthy PB mows my lawn :)

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Same her if and when I use taxis (which is very rare these days) I make sure the firm I use have drivers who speak and understand English. But only the other month we had a thread raised where a taxi driver from Burnley stopped a member in Clayton asking for directions back to Burnley. Which can only lead me to believe that said driver wasn't the holder of the licence. We need to be able to feel safe when we get in a taxi and if the driver doesn't speak English as their first language that is highly unlikely:(

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sod understanding english , most of teh taxis in accy could do with learing what a M.O.T is or at least read a book on how to change a headlight bulb in their chosen language

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Yes you are reading the post correctly - monitoring the posts on Accyweb is part of someone's job.

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if i got caught surfing the net at work i would try saying its part of my job too lol

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Part of someone job, not all

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If they employedsomeone just to check Accyweb as TD thought, then I want that job!

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That makes us all feel so much better.

We can sleep soundly now we know our taxes are being spent wisely.

After all there's nothing else the council could possibly do for us, to make Hyndburn any more perfect than it is all ready.

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do us a favour Garinda..you are the one that has the mind set to recall everything posted on this site and choose when to use that info..I doubt any council would be stupid enough to employ someone to monitor the local website.. but if they happened to be that stupid you would be the prime candidate to employ.. you are a grass.. but then there are people that have gone through life grassing people up and getting away with it... it's a fact of life.

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Strange they should do that, when the majority of (Conservative) councillors don't want to use this local forum, but they do want it monitored.