New Taxi App Launched For Dublin Customers

Ireland's first home-grown taxi app, 'Lynk', is being launched across Dublin city today (February 9).

Developed by Global Taxi's tech team, Lynk employs over 170 people in Ireland through its 24-hour customer service team and administration.

Lynk kicks off with 2,500 drivers on the fleet, making it the largest taxi firm in the country.


Further features of the app include the facility to make bookings in advance of any required journey, while customers can also make multiple bookings at the same time.

Lynk will also automatically search for another driver in the event that the original driver has to cancel.

The firm has a service team that can take queries 24 hours a day, every day of the year.

The Lynk app, which is available on the App Store and Play store, comes with €25 credit pre-loaded into every new account, providing €5 off the first five taxi rides.

Noel Ebbs, the founder and MD of Lynk, said that the service will be run by Irish people for communities and businesses in Dublin.

He added: “Lynk aims to operate in the top end of the taxi market, all the while supporting Irish jobs and feeding back into the Irish economy. We believe that a taxi service is a community service, a local service.

“Our space in the market is very clear. It's the domain of the legal, Garda-vetted, professional driver that we all know and trust, providing a service to the people of Dublin with drivers they know they can rely on.”

Lynk will be distributing €500,000 worth of credit vouchers and Lynk-themed treats throughout the week across a number of locations, including Grand Canal Dock, Clontarf, Heuston, Connolly and Pearse Street DART stations.

They will also be at IFSC, The Red Cow, Dundrum, Stephens Green, Tallaght and St James' LUAS stops. (February 2015)

http://www.bizplus.ie/news/5134?
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Guernsey

A new taxi licence plate has been introduced for disabled people in Guernsey.

An additional category of licence has been created for vehicles specifically designed for the needs of people with a disability.

The States of Guernsey announced the plans as part of the new Integrated Transport Strategy.

The environment department is encouraging new and existing taxi drivers to apply for the plates.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-guernsey-31288163?

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Taxi driver narrowly survives a wooden stake thrown through his windscreen

You’ve got to be all levels of idiot to think it’s a good idea to throw large objects from a bridge like this.

A stake of wood narrowly avoided impaling a taxi driver and his two passengers when it was thrown at his car, piercing the windscreen.

A taxi driver narrowly avoided being impaled by a large wooden stake which was thrown through the vehicle’s windscreen from a bridge.

Father-of-three Mohammed Banaris said: ‘As I went past the bridge, bang, the piece of wood came straight through my windscreen.

‘There was a man and woman in the back of the cab and we were all covered in shattered glass.

http://metro.co.uk/2015/02/09/taxi-driver-narrowly-survives-a-wooden-stake-thrown-through-his-windscreen-5055265/?