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Taken from the Daily Express today...........

IMMIGRANTS were last night banned from becoming taxi drivers unless they can pass an English test.

Council chiefs are insisting all new cabbies have a good grasp of the language before they are allowed on the road.

The move in Manchester follows complaints from customers. Under a 12-month pilot scheme, applicants will sit a 15-minute oral test.

Is someone waking up at last???

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old golfer

qui !..........Great idea you wont get a job here unless you can speak Spanish as a Taxi driver....

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kez1000

Its been going on for years here - had a night out with one of my customers in London and got a pirate taxi, he spoke no english and it was a 'white-knuckle' ride for sure.

geedee

Hopefully, it's about time

Rolzysmum

We've noticed this too - a lot of foreign taxi and bus drivers now. We have had a couple of cabs where we didn't think the driver understood very much and got by with a lot of smiling and nodding.
I think the bus drivers do have more of a command of the language.

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kizi

The Taxi driver if he know's the geography of the area, and has passed that particular test which is a requirement for obtaining a Taxi Driver's license,then surely he/she only needs to understand the Destination the passenger want's to go to,ie,"Downing St" some British born Taxi Driver's in the UK might as well not speak English,for on many occassions after giving them the destination I wanted to go to, they just dont even reply,also not a thank you for the tip..(if I did not tip them..maybe they would utter a comment then)When in other non English speaking Countries..I do not find a problem with their Taxi Driver's,they understand the Destination you give them and off you go,if you are looking for conversation..that is another matter,what about the conversational aspect concerning Taxi Driver's in Tenerife,a lot of them do not speak
English...yes they are Canarian and it is their land,the point I am trying to make is that English people do not on balance seem to have a problem dealing with a non English speaking Taxi Driver's while they are here,or anywhere else in the World..(I did say on balance)

KirstyJay

Hopefully they will follow suit with everything else...

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