Fairfield St/Baring St Rank.

The following pictures were taken today 13 August at 10.30am.

The cabs trying to feed onto the Fairfield St rank are forced to stand in the middle of the road.This happens because of the line of cars parked there all day long.

So what you may ask.

 The difference here is that we have paid Manchester Council £23 grand to mark out the rank and the road, to stop this happening. The rank was agreed in the last financial year and the money was taken from our account at that time.

We are now four and a half months into the next year and still nothing has been done. The money has not been returned.

Taxi Reserve
		2011/12	2012/13	Total
Transfer to Reserves
	Security Costs	68,961	78,848	147,809
	Special Event Budget	20,000		20,000
	Surplus on Taxi CC	49,906	320,092	369,998
		138,867	398,940	537,807
Transfer from Reserves
	Special Event Budget	0	20,000	20,000
	Fairfield St. Taxi Rank	0	23,000	23,000
		0	43,000	43,000
	Balance	138,867	355,940	494,807

I suggest that if a commercial organisation had took £23k from somebody and failed to start work Manchester Trading Standards would be taking action against the culprits.

Who helps us when the culprits are the Council themselves. ?

This matter, and others, must be ventilated in the High Court, as soon as possible.

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Taxi firm criticised by rape charity for using picture of a vulnerable-looking woman in its advertising campaign

  The 200,000 promotional postcards say 'Should have used Data Cars'

Lewisham firm insists it merely shows a woman caught out by weather

Rape Crisis: It's a really unfortunate and misguided piece of advertising

 
Anti-rape campaigners today slammed adverts for a minicab firm featuring a vulnerable-looking woman caught in a downpour.

The use of the image on 200,000 promotional postcards which say ‘Should have used Data Cars’ has attracted criticism - but the company insists it merely shows a woman caught out by the weather.

Les Chapman, manager of Data Cars in Lewisham, south-east London, said his inspiration for the campaign came from seeing his teenage daughters coming home from a night out looking drenched.


But Rape Crisis said the advertising was ‘a really unfortunate and misguided piece of advertising’.

Katie Russell from the charity said: ‘The best case scenario, giving the company the benefit of the doubt, is that they're not aware of the associations that the image on this postcard conjures.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2391992/Data-Cars-ad-campaigns-use-vulnerable-woman-image-criticised-rape-charity.html#ixzz2bsmELVuh