Yet another taxi-driver's outburst
08/07/11
In
the St
Andrews Citizen Stuart
Winton expresses his extreme scepticism about the
idea of a railway to St Andrews, doubting that it
would make a difference to traffic in Cupar and St
Andrews or that car-drivers would switch to rail.
Unfortunately the letter degenerates into an
extremely personalised attack upon your convenor.
Like Ms Batchelor's letter last week and Mr Beech's
the week before I will not be dignifying it with a
response. Mr Winton has sent me a long e-mail about
the intricacies of the taxi-business (thankfully, he
was considerate enough not to inflict it upon the
readers of the Citizen)
which is no doubt very interesting but really quite
irrelevant to the Starlink campaign. He would do
better to send his complaints about taxi-licensing to
Fife Council, who could do something about them,
rather than to me. The local taxi service has of
course evolved over the years to fit the existing
market, that is, without a railway to St Andrews. No
doubt it will be able to do so again once trains are
again running into the Home of Golf.