A ZONAL TAXICAB - FARE EXPERIMENT. A Suggestion of the Woking Authorities.
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MBE clerk to the Woking Urban -1District Council, Mr. Robert Mossop, recently wrote to local motor-cab proprietors intimating that consideration would be given to representation
by residents with regard to the petition from the proprietors that the by-laws of the council might be altered so that the provision of taximeters might not be COM pia Lsory. The local branch of the National Citizens' Union has DOW suggested that there should be zonal fares, or any other possible arrangement which would enable taximeters to be dispensed with, the branch being of opinion that these meters are an undue burden on the cab proprietors in proportion to the small number of passengers carried daily. Nevertheless, the interests of passengers should be borne in mind, so that only a reasonable charge is made for a journey.
Mr. Mossop has informed the licensing committee that he has ascertained that taximeters were not compulsory on cabs in use in the urban districts of Farnham, Weybridge and Walton and the town of Guildford, but by-laws were being considered in some of the districts. He had also obtained information from a taximeter company as to cost of licensing or purchasing taximeters.
The licensing committee favoured the idea of trying zoning instead of recommending the use of taximeters, as it is insisting upon cabs being insured and the double expense entailed in effecting insurance and providing taximeters is very heavy.
The Ministry of Health is to be asked, therefore, if it will allow the suspension for 12 months of the by-lass which insisted upon the provision of taximeters, in order that the experiment of zoning may be tried.