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not resolvedQuestion.
Are private hire cars allowed to use the bus lanes / greenways? The signs say bus / bicycle / taxi.
A private hire car is not a taxi - and I take exception to how badly they are normally driven. Should I start taking down licence numbers and sending them into the relevant department?
Yes they are and no I wouldn't waste yer time.
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"Thank you for your e mail received on 25 August 2010.
I can advise that taxi's can drop off passengers on greenways and bus lanes but cannot drive during restricted times.
I hope this answers your query."
I specifically asked about private hire vehicles, I presume she too mixed them up with taxis. Now I'm doubly confused!
The council are very good at not answering questions.
I put in a FOI request about the Meadows cycling debacle to be told that "anywhere that a path existed prior to the passing of the Land Reform Act, the path is not covered by the act".
I replied with a follow-up question on the basis that their interpretation would surprise pretty much anyone involved in access, but got no response (probably because the requirements of FOI were discharged against the first communication only)?
Have 20 working days passed since your follow-up question, Dave? No public organisation can arbitrarily decide not to answer a FOI request put to it. If the deadline has passed without a response, there is only the option that the information was already due to be published within that time period, but the organisation also has to state this in the response. And of course, failure to publish by the agreed stated date would constitute refusal of disclosure.
If the deadline has passed, you are also entitled to request a review of the handling of your FOI request -- normally this is to request the release of certain information which you asked for but was withheld (and the original answer should state this and why, with respect to the FOI Scotland Act) if you feel there are grounds, but a review request may also be directed at the handling process itself. You could additionally later ask to see the review report and its findings, and this would constitute an entirely new FOI request with an entirely new 20 working day time limit. In theory, under the right circumstances you could perpetuate the process ad nauseum.
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