Regulator ‘only hope’ of tackling rogue taxi drivers

ROGUE taxi drivers who pose a threat to customers will remain an ugly fact of life until the Minister for Transport appoints a regulator.

This was the view yesterday of Vincent Kearns, National Taxi Drivers Union, who criticised Minister Seamus Brennan for failing to appoint the promised taxi regulator two-and-a-half years after the service was de-regulated.

Commenting on taxi drivers who threatened woman, over-charged or engaged in other forms of anti-social behaviour, he said: “The only hope we have of lessening such problems is to have Minister Brennan place a moratorium on taxi licences until a regulator is appointed.”