General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

It is still a good point about unscrupulous taxi drivers using the new road to increase fares, but the law says the taxi driver has got to take the shortest route to a destination, not the quickest route, so runs will have to be done along Poolstock and Poolstock Lane.

Scorpion said:

"But if the taxi went down poolstock lane and was stuck in traffic would the fare be more due to waiting?"

It could be more in waiting time or more accurately in 'crawling' time, if it was a bad traffic jam ....

This reminds me of going to Skem or as posh people say Skelmersdale, the quickest route to parts of Skelmersdale is by the M58 motorway, instead of travelling through Orrell Post, Up Holland etc but it costs a few quid more, and Skelmersdale Taxis used to charge a lot less than the Wigan Hackney rate, and their fares were not metered, so they could offer a fixed rate to Wigan, going anyway they choosed, which could be by the motorway, but when a Plastic Mushroom, used to get a Wigan Hackney to Skem, and yoo tried to explain to it that the Wigan taxi fares were metered, and that if you went up the motorway, it would cost them a lot more, and bearing in mind the fare would be more expensive anyway, going the shortest route, it created quite a few arguments ....

I myself do not work in Wigan anymore, so I don't know how the situation is panning out with the new road and taxis