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[CBBB]

We do not want any of your remnants of Colonial Rule in Pafos, so we are pleased to be excluded from the network

In any case the taxi drivers would have blown up the lines if they came here!

The taxi drivers need to get their cosy little monopoly broken up by force. Is there still no bus service to and from the airport? If not, why not?

There is now.

Nice one. Does that apply to Larnaca as well? And how come this situation went on for so long, any ideas?

Too many stupid Brits will to pay the taxis!

[EricSeans]

We do not want any of your remnants of Colonial Rule in Pafos, so we are pleased to be excluded from the network

In any case the taxi drivers would have blown up the lines if they came here!

The taxi drivers need to get their cosy little monopoly broken up by force. Is there still no bus service to and from the airport? If not, why not?

There is now.

Nice one. Does that apply to Larnaca as well? And how come this situation went on for so long, any ideas?

I wonder how quickly other countries would 'recover' if they lost administration of 40% of their territory?

Surely they didn't leave all the buses behind?

What I was meaning was why did no bus service operate to and from the airport/s for decades, to the huge inconvenience of the travelling public and tourists but to the massive advantage of a handful of taxi drivers? On the surface it looks as though something dodgy was going on.

[Oracle]

We do not want any of your remnants of Colonial Rule in Pafos, so we are pleased to be excluded from the network

In any case the taxi drivers would have blown up the lines if they came here!

The taxi drivers need to get their cosy little monopoly broken up by force. Is there still no bus service to and from the airport? If not, why not?

There is now.

Nice one. Does that apply to Larnaca as well? And how come this situation went on for so long, any ideas?

I wonder how quickly other countries would 'recover' if they lost administration of 40% of their territory?

Surely they didn't leave all the buses behind?

What I was meaning was why did no bus service operate to and from the airport/s for decades, to the huge inconvenience of the travelling public and tourists but to the massive advantage of a handful of taxi drivers? On the surface it looks as though something dodgy was going on.

Maybe we had to (re) build the airports and recover some revenue before the next stage ...

[EricSeans]

We do not want any of your remnants of Colonial Rule in Pafos, so we are pleased to be excluded from the network

In any case the taxi drivers would have blown up the lines if they came here!

The taxi drivers need to get their cosy little monopoly broken up by force. Is there still no bus service to and from the airport? If not, why not?

There is now.

Nice one. Does that apply to Larnaca as well? And how come this situation went on for so long, any ideas?

Too many stupid Brits will to pay the taxis!

You're probably right. But that leaves the sensible foreigners to think they've arrived on an island of legalised robbery. Doesn't leave a good impression with tourists and we all need them. The first time I came across this scandal I went to a taxi driver at the back of the rank and gave him six quid to take me to town. The going rate was about 15-20.

[Tim Drayton]

We do not want any of your remnants of Colonial Rule in Pafos, so we are pleased to be excluded from the network

In any case the taxi drivers would have blown up the lines if they came here!

The taxi drivers need to get their cosy little monopoly broken up by force. Is there still no bus service to and from the airport? If not, why not?

There is now.

Nice one. Does that apply to Larnaca as well? And how come this situation went on for so long, any ideas?

Sorry, there is a crossed wire. There is a bus service from Larnaca airport, but not the dreaded "P" place.

[EricSeans]

We do not want any of your remnants of Colonial Rule in Pafos, so we are pleased to be excluded from the network

In any case the taxi drivers would have blown up the lines if they came here!

The taxi drivers need to get their cosy little monopoly broken up by force. Is there still no bus service to and from the airport? If not, why not?

There is now.

Nice one. Does that apply to Larnaca as well? And how come this situation went on for so long, any ideas?

I wonder how quickly other countries would 'recover' if they lost administration of 40% of their territory?

Surely they didn't leave all the buses behind?

What I was meaning was why did no bus service operate to and from the airport/s for decades, to the huge inconvenience of the travelling public and tourists but to the massive advantage of a handful of taxi drivers? On the surface it looks as though something dodgy was going on.

Maybe we had to (re) build the airports and recover some revenue before the next stage ...

Indeed, but I'm talking about this scam operating up to and including the last five years or so. Are the cabbies in Cyprus like the Teamsters?

[EricSeans]

We do not want any of your remnants of Colonial Rule in Pafos, so we are pleased to be excluded from the network

In any case the taxi drivers would have blown up the lines if they came here!

The taxi drivers need to get their cosy little monopoly broken up by force. Is there still no bus service to and from the airport? If not, why not?

There is now.

Nice one. Does that apply to Larnaca as well? And how come this situation went on for so long, any ideas?

Sorry, there is a crossed wire. There is a bus service from Larnaca airport, but not the dreaded "P" place.

Thanks for that. Now you mention it I did take a dolmus from Nicosia to LCA years ago and I think there was a PSV bus that operated crazy hours so the cabbies got much of the tourists.

But when I asked the taxi drivers at PFO about a bus service it was like tumbleweed time.

[Beer Belly]

We do not want any of your remnants of Colonial Rule in Pafos, so we are pleased to be excluded from the network

In any case the taxi drivers would have blown up the lines if they came here!

The taxi drivers need to get their cosy little monopoly broken up by force. Is there still no bus service to and from the airport? If not, why not?

There is now.

Nice one. Does that apply to Larnaca as well? And how come this situation went on for so long, any ideas?

Too many stupid Brits will to pay the taxis!

You're probably right. But that leaves the sensible foreigners to think they've arrived on an island of legalised robbery. Doesn't leave a good impression with tourists and we all need them. The first time I came across this scandal I went to a taxi driver at the back of the rank and gave him six quid to take me to town. The going rate was about 15-20.

Well said The stupid Brits are now voting with their feet, what a shame for the rip off merchants, they can only go to cabaret once a week now. Their wives and girlfriends do not know what is happening as they come home so often.

[Oracle]

We do not want any of your remnants of Colonial Rule in Pafos, so we are pleased to be excluded from the network

In any case the taxi drivers would have blown up the lines if they came here!

The taxi drivers need to get their cosy little monopoly broken up by force. Is there still no bus service to and from the airport? If not, why not?

There is now.

Nice one. Does that apply to Larnaca as well? And how come this situation went on for so long, any ideas?

Too many stupid Brits will to pay the taxis!

You're probably right. But that leaves the sensible foreigners to think they've arrived on an island of legalised robbery. Doesn't leave a good impression with tourists and we all need them. The first time I came across this scandal I went to a taxi driver at the back of the rank and gave him six quid to take me to town. The going rate was about 15-20.

Well said The stupid Brits are now voting with their feet, what a shame for the rip off merchants, they can only go to cabaret once a week now. Their wives and girlfriends do not know what is happening as they come home so often.

Yes, they have voted with their feet!

From today's Google-news:

An increase in holidaymakers from Britain and Germany helped Cyprus tourist arrivals grow by 14.8 percent in March from a year earlier -

Arrivals were 103,803 against 90,434 in March 2009.

For the first quarter ending in March the number of arrivals rose by 5.6 percent from 194,127 last year to 205,006.

[beverley10]

So which Cypriot family with no experience of railways are going to be ripping off europe on this money spinner?
I will do it for nothing! It is not neccesary,too expensive and doesn't carry your shopping to your door,much the same as the bus serv ice,so forgive me for not being green,stupid or in favour of wasting money on another white elephant if I stick to my car which is cheaper,more convenient and doesn't rip the heart out of the countryside for such a ridiculously small area covered.