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Victorian taxi market reforms

I attended a meeting today on proposed reforms for the Victorian taxi industry prepared by former ACCC guru Allen Fels with a major input by David Cousins. Opening the PDF version of the Fels Draft Report (here) at least gives you a helpful contents  page to what is a long document. There is an executive [...]

The uneasy case for deregulating taxis

Increased user charges on vehicles and increases in carbon-based fuel prices might have long-term effects of reducing private car ownership and use – there are tentative signs that this has already happened in the US in response to the recent oil price boom.  This might encourage some commuters [...]