Mr O’Brien, a former Liberal spokesman for Disability Services, also raised the possibility of revision of the Taxi User Subsidy Scheme.

“I will be looking to boost accessibility, in consultation with the taxi industry, the disabilities community and seniors’ organisations,” he said.

Well, as a person with a disabilty who relies on the Subsidy scheme, and living in the outer metropolitan area is the fact that unless you have a roster of drivers you can book direct, it is almost impossible to get a Multipurpose Taxi by booking through a Taxi Company, a point illustrated when I went to a function in Ellenbrook (at Jaye Radisich’s Electorate Office opening for the record) from Middle Swan and I had booked the cab on a Monday to pick me up at 3pm on the Friday Afternoon, the cab diddn’t arrive until 5pm, and the return was worst, I rang for a cab at 7.20pm and despite ringing every 30 minutes from a nearby business (I didn’t own a mobile at the time), the cab never turned up, I would’ve been left stranded, if not for the kindness of a lady buying a Pizza from the local Dominoes store.

It seems that all the MPT’s were in Northbridge, where they make more money on a Friday & Saturday Night carry drinking groups, instead of carrying people with disabilities.

Jaye raised the matter with the Transport minister and in her letter, Black & White Taxis pointed out that they rang the contact number (the electorate office), but got no reply – staff have conifirmed that there were no messages on the answering service.

In short, the problem won’t be solved until the DPI mandates that MPT drivers give priority to Special Needs passengers first, and that they only “normal work” if there is no MPT work available.

http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,24206619-2761,00.html

Thank you. I think your reply is reasonable given the circumstances, but you can probably understand why I feel marooned by the main parties and the Greens on environmental sustainability.

Does that mean that you will not even attempt to address any other point I may raise? Like the discussion above on the Greens policies?</blockquote

Andrew,

I am ignoring you completely.

Does that mean that you will not even attempt to address any other point I may raise? Like the discussion above on the Greens policies?

I am not a Green, so one of the Greens might want to have a try at answering your quesitons.

My basic point is that I am concerned about environmental sustainability and I don’t believe that either of the two main parties have been able to deliver on it. I also believe that the party which is mostly interested in it, is most probably not going to be able to deliver on it for two reasons: (1) they are unlikely to gain government and (2) even if they did, it is fairly doubtful that their policy package would deliver on economic sustainability.

See William’s post here

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William Bowe Says:
August 19th, 2008 at 1:03 pm

Can we move on now please.

I will no longer respond to ANY of your posts.