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This article seems very limited in scope - it needs to widen scope to all states - and its messiness is very telling Satu Suro 06:50, 19 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The 'plate' issue

It seems to me, that it ought to be mentioned somewhere that the ability to operate a taxi depends on owning the taxi 'plate', which is the right to operate the vehicle as a taxi. These are limited in number, perpetual rights, and tradeable, and have a scarcity value of the order of half a million dollars as an investment, which is quite separate from the cost of actually having a suitable car to use the plate. These used to be popular as an investment for tax avoidable purposes as they could not be taxed as easily as land or stock market investments. The 'plate' owners oppose the issuing of more plates, because it would undermine the value of their investment. The high cost of financing the ownership of these plates, or providing a 'return on investment', to their owners, is a major structural impediment to effective performance of the taxi industry. It seems odd to me, that this is not mentioned anywhere.Eregli bob (talk) 09:21, 26 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Australian Capital Territory - advent of UBER competition - 2015

Canberra Times newspaper's Headline - Uber to launch in Canberra; ACT government to cut taxi licence fees and regulate ride-sharing

Main article is such a dog's breakfast, i am leaving this momentous news as a "Talk" post. 49.195.158.107 (talk) 03:04, 2 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 17 February 2019

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: speedy moved uncontroversially, as the original mover confirmed that this odd page name was a typo. Paintspot Infez (talk) 04:18, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Taxis Australia → Taxis in Australia – This article was originally at Taxicabs in Australia. At some point, @Enthusiast01: moved it to this title, noting (correctly) that "taxicab" is not commonly used in Australia. However, the choice of title has the strange effect of making "Taxis Australia" sound like a business entity (like Hockey Australia) instead of an abstract topic article (like Hockey in Australia, which is a dab page, but you get my point). More importantly, moving it would be consistent with other transport industry topic articles like Rail transport in Australia, Roads in Australia, and so on. Triptothecottage (talk) 02:36, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Move as per nom. What an odd current title. The Drover's Wife (talk) 02:54, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The omission of the “in” was a typo. I couldn’t rename it to corr3ct my error.Enthusiast01 (talk) 03:58, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.