I don’t agree at all with you and I think it is you who needs to examine this obvious problem you have with taxi drivers and whats it’s doing to your vision. There are bad taxi drivers but they don’t stand out any more on our streets than any bad driver. I am kept awake at night by idiots doing doughnuts at a near by junction from my home. I am reading about the thousands of idiots that were last year caught drink driving. I am reading about the countless deaths and accidents on our roads and Not even one case involved a taxi driver. You conclusion from these facts is that Taxi drivers are the dangerous drivers. I remember a few years ago visiting Dublin and outside a Garda Station, Garda members had parked, double parked and left hand brakes of, so that other’s could push the cars forward when they needed to get there own out.
Look just read your paper who is being prosecuted for these offences. Try deal with you personal problems with taxi drivers in your own time.

Hooray \o/

It was a good idea at the time, so Niall - many thanks again.

Would you consider taking over the site yourself?

Having low insurace claims against taxis does not necesarily mean the statistics also imply that they are good drivers. Take any city or town around the country and count the amout of breaches of the rules of the road by the vast majority of taxis at any particular time on any particular day, never mind the other notorious antics of U turns across continious white lines,  allowing passengers in and out of vehicles in the middle of street, and restricting the ability of other road users to pass safely  as the taxi comes to a halt and the driver decides to have his mid day snack. With one finger out the window , its F*** you, i’ll stop where I so damn well please.
Give you an example, its pointless, the practice is rampant right acroos the country. This does not mean that all taxi drivers are bad drivers, unfortunately from years of observation it appears that  the percentage of compliant drivers is in the low bracket.
Wipe your eyes, take a walk around any city or town throughout the country and then finally admit, as public service vehicle operatotrs their stardards of compliance with the rules of the road is something that the RSA has continiusly failed to address at the expemse of everyone else. Enforcing the new learner driver permit regulations as means of making sure people are qualified to drive on our roads is but a joke if the same learner drivers are to mimic the driving standards of the taxi industry. If I was a learner driver   I’d do my very best to get  a full licence , a PSV licence and then throw the rule book as far out of the window as I possibly could. I would then become part of the roof top illumination drivers who in the total interest of business, apply the rules of the road,when and only when the situatuion works in their favour.
I’m not knocking the taxi industry, i’m questioning the inability or unwillingness of the RSA and the representative bodies within the taxi industry to wake up to a fact that appears to be evident to the vast majority of people, including motorists. 
Behaviour breets behaviour