Local Hackney Pilot News Today

An overhaul of current taxi regulations needs to happen urgently to address the critical lack of taxi and hackney cabs available in rural Ireland, a Fine Gael Senator has said.

A SCHEME launched last January by the National Transport Authority (NTA) to improve and increase taxi services in rural areas like West Cork has had a poor uptake.The Local Hackney Pilot grant-aided programme was to address the chronic shortage of taxis, not just in rural areas b

By Joe Barrett Hackney cars are needed in parts of Laois to allow local communities and businesses to thrive. That was the assertion of cllr Conor Bergin at the…

A Sligo Councillor is hopeful rural areas in county Sligo will be included in the Local Hackney Pilot Scheme. The scheme is a grant-aided pilot programme

A Government pilot hackney scheme aimed at providing a part-time local hackney service in rural areas was announced recently for Elphin. The Local Hackney Pilot…

Ballinalee is one of twenty-one rural locations included in a one year pilot programme for a localised, specially licenced hackney service to help improve trans...

Uber needs to be introduced as soon as possible in order to prevent more restaurant and pub closures in rural Ireland.

The Minister for Transport, Eamon Ryan TD, alongside the National Transport Authority (NTA) has today launched a one year pilot programme for a localised, speci...

A new subsidised local hackney service is to be provided in Freshford in County Kilkenny where no current full-time service exists. Freshford in County Kilkenny...