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Speaker 1: A bit of bat grove over the weekend around taxis

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Speaker 1: and fairs being ripped off. So person jumps into cab

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Speaker 1: post Coldplay gets charged one hundred and sixty dollars apparently

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Speaker 1: for a ten k trip. The company in question is

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Speaker 1: a place called Crown Cabs. Apparently they've got a reputation.

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Speaker 1: Multiple complaints have been made over the Small Passenger Service

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Speaker 1: Association Executive director Warren quirkers with us. Warren, very good

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Speaker 1: morning to you. Mind. These are these ubers, as are

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Speaker 1: cabs as opposed to Ubers.

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Speaker 2: Well fit to bear what we have now following the

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Speaker 2: amendments of the Land Transport that in twenty seventeen as

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Speaker 2: food types of providers of the service. You have your

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Speaker 2: traditional taxes who are affiliated to taxi companies, the ripped

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Speaker 2: all brands that you see. You have the ride share

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Speaker 2: element of course Ubers and the light and then you

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Speaker 2: have what we call independent taxi operators, some of those

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Speaker 2: independents who are back and forth between the rideshare platforms

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Speaker 2: and driving as independents.

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Speaker 1: So the problem would be you're coming out of Coldplay,

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Speaker 1: you're desperate for a cab. One guy in a very

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Speaker 1: old Japanese import comes by happens to be an independent operator.

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Speaker 1: You drop in the back next time, you know, next

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Speaker 1: thing you know, it's one hundred and sixty bucks. Is

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Speaker 1: that how that works?

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Speaker 2: Well, that's how it does work, and it's not how

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Speaker 2: it's supposed to work. So the rule around price in

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Speaker 2: now is that the fairst should be agreed to prior

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Speaker 2: to the trip to Mensine. And this is what we

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Speaker 2: find is not happened in most chases like this and

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Speaker 2: in other cases what we're saying now is are an

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Speaker 2: intressive tats and mercers or phone app mess which a

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Speaker 2: set at extraordinary high prices.

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Speaker 1: Ah, that was my next question. If you if you

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Speaker 1: get into a cab and and you don't check, of

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Speaker 1: course because no one does. But if it's set at

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Speaker 1: you know, six hundred dollars a kilometer and that's a

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Speaker 1: set rate, and you're you didn't check it, then that

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Speaker 1: is that on you or not.

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Speaker 2: As long as it's advertised, as long as there is

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Speaker 2: a first schedule in the in the tat sun. That

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Speaker 2: is quite lere'sure top I for wrote like that, and

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Speaker 2: this is where we believe a legislation as a native

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Speaker 2: which at the moments around.

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Speaker 1: Us need to tidy it up. Warren appreciate time very much.

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Speaker 1: Warren Quirk Wher's the small Passenger. A Small Passengers Service

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Speaker 1: Association executive director who knew we had a small passenger services?

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Speaker 2: Do you reckon?

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Speaker 1: I'd classify as a small passenger or a medium sized

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Speaker 1: one or a large one largish yeah. For more from

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