kite Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 its exactly the same,theres never any spare taxis and they all drive on cos they all full. i got a taxi to paramount city last weekend from passion bar (by sea terminal) and it cost £6.50!!! later I got one the other way and it was £8.70!!! ok there was 4 of us,but it was still a 2 min journery! nice work if u can get it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lonan3 Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 When it's past midnight, you're on your own and freezing your arse off you're prepared to do an awful lot to grab the Holy Grail of a cab actually stopping for you. However I stopped doing this 10 years ago. What's it like these days? On Friday nights, if you happen to be in the vicinity, you'll see anything from 10 to 18 taxis queued up outside Colours from about 1am onwards. On Saturday it's a bit busier - so only about 4 to 8. So few people are out and about nowadays - since Centurion made it sound like a battlefield - that you only need to twitch to have half a dozen cabs stopping! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheesemonster2005 Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 On Friday nights, if you happen to be in the vicinity, you'll see anything from 10 to 18 taxis queued up outside Colours from about 1am onwards.On Saturday it's a bit busier - so only about 4 to 8. So few people are out and about nowadays - since Centurion made it sound like a battlefield - that you only need to twitch to have half a dozen cabs stopping! I had no probklems with taxis when back home at Christmas. I got one a few times from outside the casino and never had to wait. The price was too high (7GBP to North Onchan) but I'd expect that considering the fact that few licenses are issued because the traxi drivers don't want more competition. The taxis were my saviour - it was only 1am yet there were no buses running at all in Douglas or Onchan - just like it was in the 1960s I expect! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manxchatterbox Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 whilst Summerland is being demolished and the prom from Onchan Head to the bottom of Summerhill is closed a new congestion charge in conjunction with a park and ride scheme administered by the DoT will relieve the traffic pressure on Summerhill.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheesemonster2005 Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 whilst Summerland is being demolished and the prom from Onchan Head to the bottom of Summerhill is closed a new congestion charge in conjunction with a park and ride scheme administered by the DoT will relieve the traffic pressure on Summerhill.... Is that true? A congestion charge for the city centre of Douglas would be a great idea. Best method yet to encourage more people to use public transport whilst at the same time providing funds direct for these services. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manxchatterbox Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 induction type/wireless loops to be embedded in the roads coming into Douglas...all cards to be fitted with a transponder prior to the renewal of annual licence..and everytime the vehicle travels over the induction loop between the hours of 08:00 and 09:00 am the vehicle owner gets billed £10....whereas the park and ride service during that time is only £3......easy...well done the guy in the DoT who thought of that (?) ps ..apols if mishatkes in speklling as getting distracted by some titties on BBC2... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahc Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 I think this is bollocks. Prove me wrong. Source please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manxchatterbox Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 ...using the same sort of technology that was used last year on TT bikes to track them and their speeds... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahc Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 Source please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manxchatterbox Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 already being coloured in on the plan are the Drinkwater meadow at the QB between the New Castletown Road and the Peel Road to be a car park and bus terminal ( the QB to be the DoT Park and Ride admin centre) ...same with the meadow field alongside the Nunnery....the field along Ballanard Road...and the field on the top side of Blackberry Lane.... "and as for the source, if I tell you I'll have to shoot you" as James Bond or someone like him said. ...seems like a non-political determination to get to grips with Douglas traffic congestion..and effectively encourange more use of public transport... and with private sector mini-bus taxis' able to pick up those who for some reason don't like travelling on a 50 seater bus... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manxchatterbox Posted January 18, 2006 Share Posted January 18, 2006 From memory Oxford has a reasonably good park and ride system and Cambridge excludes traffic from the twon centre too...and the congestion charge is now working in London... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manxchatterbox Posted January 18, 2006 Share Posted January 18, 2006 ..and with a population of 120,000 that's surely the only way the traffic can be sensibly managed.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted January 18, 2006 Share Posted January 18, 2006 Sounds horrible. What traffic pressure on Summerhill anyway? Or do you mean the 5 minute queue that builds up for half an hour 5 days a week? The only way to encourage people to use public transport is to improve the bus service. I stayed in town after work for a drink last night, only to find that there are no buses home between 6.40pm and 9.05pm! Oh and with buses costings working out so expensive that it's cheaper to take the car if there's more than one of you to share it, what do they expect? As for the congestion charge, I'd just park in Onchan to avoid it, I usually park the far end of the prom all day to avoid disk zones/paying to park - works a treat, and it's a nice short walk into work that way. I hope it's bullshit though, it sounds crap. Building car parks on the only fields left near town, it would only encourage people to shop out of town too if they couldn't drive into town without paying. already being coloured in on the plan are the Drinkwater meadow at the QBas if the drinkwaters would sell that for a car park! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karellen Posted January 18, 2006 Share Posted January 18, 2006 Park and ride will never work in Douglas. It has been tried and failed before. For god's sake, its impossible to queue anywhere in Douglas for more than 3 minutes even at the height of "rush hour". There is no congestion. Mass public transport on the island is a dream. Public transport is marginalised by the car owning majority. Perhaps it works in London with a mass transit underground system moving tens of thousands of people an hour from all points of the compass, but the island's population is too small and geographically too thinly spread and so it will remain in the margins. The majority aspire to car ownership and want to use their cars. What Douglas needs is more and better parking facilities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirdick Posted January 18, 2006 Share Posted January 18, 2006 I usually park the far end of the prom all day to avoid disk zones/paying to park - works a treat, and it's a nice short walk into work that way. Me too, I don't see why people are so determined to park right outside their place of work, nipping out to change their disc every couple of hours and fearing they might get a parking ticket. Or paying a stupid amount for all day parking right in the middle of town. Is it that difficult to have a relaxing 10 minute walk to work in the morning? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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