Taxi! Taxi!
A recent FOI request has revealed that Wirral councillors in 2013/14 spent £2,877 on taxi journeys. Of this amount Rock Ferry's three labour councillors spent a whopping £893 (31%). Where are they travelling to and from with such urgency that warrants this abnormally high use of taxi's? Definitely not around Rock Ferry as to sight one of them is as rare as spotting a street cleaner!
Do these councillors not think that in times of severe austerity cuts (which they voted for) they should be using public transport or better still get on a bike? In my view there is no valid reason not to, particularly as two of them have free public transport by using their Merseytravel passes. Yet again, they are totally out of touch with how the rest of us are struggling to make ends meet each and every day!
The former Chief Exec of WBC Graham Burgess recently stated "We need to spend less on ourselves and more on services” so I wonder what the £2,877.35 spent on taxi journeys for councillors could have been spent on instead?
