Overtaking on a Pedestrian Crossing
Discussion
7db said:
vonhosen said:
7db said:
Why isn't a taxi a public service vehicle?
PSV is not defined within the The Zebra, Pelican and Puffin Pedestrian Crossings Regulations.Elsewhere it's a motor vehicle (other than a tramcar) which-
(a) being a vehicle adapted to carry more than eight passengers, is used for carrying passengers for hire or reward; or
(b) being a vehicle not so adapted, is used for carrying passengers for hire or reward at separate fares in the course of a business of carrying passengers.
BUT
Note Transport Act 1985
11.
Advance booking of taxis and hire cars at separate fares.
(1) Where the conditions mentioned in subsection (2) below are met, a licensed taxi or licensed hire car may be used for the carriage of passengers for hire or reward at separate fares without thereby—
(a)
becoming a public service vehicle for the purposes of the 1981 Act or any related enactment;
blah blah blah
Get Karter said:
vonhosen said:
7db said:
vonhosen said:
Get Karter said:
vonhosen said:
Yes you could have passed him.
It would be an offence to pass the 'moving' 'motor vehicle' nearest the crossing.
OR
The lead stationary 'vehicle' according precedence to a pedestrian using the crossing.
Thanks for that. I will know next time.It would be an offence to pass the 'moving' 'motor vehicle' nearest the crossing.
OR
The lead stationary 'vehicle' according precedence to a pedestrian using the crossing.
Edited by vonhosen on Monday 15th October 19:36
Was the taxi driver in the wrong to stop on zig zags....I know the Police book anyone parking on them. Surely stopping to pick up a fare causes the same 'visibility' problems as a parked car?
It's like residential areas where there are double yellow lines on corners to aid junction visibility/space, but cars with disabled badges can park on them all day.
Never understood the logic tbh. I guess they are laws created by committees.
As for stopping before the crossing the authorities most likely thought the danger is sufficient to forbid all vehicles from doing so.
The section of the Transport Act 1985 you quote refers to advanced bookings. If you pick passengers up off the street (as a Hackney taxi does) and you carry more than one passenger paying separate fares at at time (not when a group split a fare up between them when they get dropped off at different places) then you need a PSV licence.
Hackney taxi operators are entitled to special PSV licences should they decide to work a local bus service.
You can be driving a 'taxi', not acting as a local bus service and be a PSV vehicle so long as you have a PSV licence.In this case you would be able to stop on the zig zags along with the proper buses.
Hackney taxi operators are entitled to special PSV licences should they decide to work a local bus service.
You can be driving a 'taxi', not acting as a local bus service and be a PSV vehicle so long as you have a PSV licence.In this case you would be able to stop on the zig zags along with the proper buses.
Edited by Zeeky on Saturday 20th October 16:46
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