Talk Hearts Daily News Thread

[Del-icious]

It does seem it’s not police Scotlands fault but just get it done one way or another for the bairns

What they gonny do if they don’t do what they’re told, phone the polis? They ‘ur the polis

[Johnny]

TAXI OUTING CANCELLED

Since 1947, let that sink in,
An annual event, we Cabbies ( pasted & present) have poured MUCH time and effort into this event for local children, fundraising / raffles / charity golf events, the last one being 20 days ago.

Now, in the blink of an eye, by some Pen Pusher it’s all off… 15 days prior to the Event…..

Report :

We have just had a planning meeting with the City of Edinburgh Council and Police Scotland and we were informed of a new policy from the National Police Chief's Council which states that events such as ours can no longer be supported by the Police motorcyclists. Police Scotland have offered static traffic control along Princes Street, the Royal Mile and then through Holyrood Park to Meadowbank, but the rest of the journey would need to be conducted in general traffic obeying all of the traffic lights and junctions along the route. This could mean that, due to the congestion within the city, it could take several hours for the whole convoy to complete the entire route.

Given that all of the children taking part in the Outing all have some form of additional needs, I not prepared to subject them to the uncertainty of the journey, potentially having to sit for 20-30 minutes waiting on the rest of the convoy catching up.

The comfort and safety of the families taking part is the ONLY priority and therefore the Committee has decided that we have no choice but to cancel at least this year's Outing but, if the policy remains the same, then there will be no more Outing, which is a very sorry state of affairs given that we have been undertaking the Outing since 1947.



The following are the MPs and MSPs who cover the area of the Outing. Their constituents will be directly affected by this policy as will the thousands who line the route and join in with this amazing event. If you feel the urge, please contact them and ask if they can secure an exemption from the National Police Chief's Council's policy for our Outing, otherwise there will never be another Edinburgh Taxi Outing.

Dr Scott Arthur scott.arthur.mp@parliament.uk



Tracy Gilbert tracy.gilbert.mp@parliament.uk



Christine Jardine christine.jardine.mp@parliament.uk



Chris Murray chris.murray.mp@parliament.uk



Ian Murray ian.murray.mp@parliament.uk



You can find contact details for your MSP here.

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[Shteve]

See that edinburgh taxi outing where they dress the cabs up and the kids shoot water pistols out the back has been cancelled because they can't get the police escort for it. 

So shan like, another thing that was just nice for folk finnish   It's run since the 50s or something, wild they can't get a bit of resource to escort the cars through the city for a few hours on one day.  Seems to be some national policy change that means police scotland are forbidden from facilitating it

They'd need to pull the motors off the greggs/McDonald's run and they're not prepared to go that far.