Island on the road to taxi harmony

Friday 17th March 2006, 12:00AM GMT.

DIFFERENCES between taxis and cabs are likely to be scrapped as part of a forthcoming revolution on the industry to end the current ‘inefficient shambles’.

Meanwhile, Transport Minister Guy de Faye has vowed to halt practices which allow drivers with what are effectively States-owned licence plates to make tens of thousands of pounds by renting them out to others.

One cab driver, Sean Crick, said that he had paid about £90,000 over the last decade to rent a plate.

Deputy de Faye said that the current system was a ‘complete and utter inefficient shambles’.

A consultation process was now under way to find a new system.

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