Again, another instance of don’t let a good story get in the way of the truth.
The Manchester Evening News posted a story with the headline:
Local 'knowledge test' for taxi drivers set to be scrapped in the Greater Manchester borough of Bury.
Drivers will no longer be required to answer 15 questions about road names and have to complete 2 journeys.
The reason given by the council is that with new technology, drivers don’t need to know the knowledge.
They of course went with a photo of a line of Hackney TX4s and Vitos, used word such as, 'Taxi Drivers and Taxi Licence'…..
Yet reading through the article, it becomes quite apparent that they are actually referring to a Private Hire Licence, which they mention towards the end of the article.
The council say that owing to cross boarder hiring, and drivers flooding the area with minicabs and drivers licensed in other boroughs, their revenue from licenses has fallen to an all time low!
Therefore they are scrapping the 'knowledge test', better known to us as the topographic test.
See article, click this link:
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This is just another instance of lazy journalism, where the author hasn’t done enough research into an issue they obviously have no knowledge of.
Wonder if I called the author (Chris Gee) a part time minicab driver instead of a reporter (and say "well they’re all the same to me")….wether he would be insulted?
Chris Gee is apparently advertising himself as 'the Manchester Evening New's democracy, reporter'. ๐
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