Councillors have agreed to increase taxi fares for Hackney carriages in Merthyr Tydfil. A request was received from members of the Hackney carriage trade to increase the current Merthyr Tydfil Council rate of fares but despite the proposed increase being 50p for the first mile (or part thereof), cabinet agreed to increase it by 30p instead at its meeting on Wednesday, July 6.
The last taxi tariff increase was in March 2020 and this latest increase will come into force from August 1. Figures from the Private Hire and Taxi Monthly magazine show that based upon a two-mile journey, the current national average fare on tariff one is £6.24.
Council officers have used figures from the league table for May 2022 for all Welsh authorities and a comparison of the two mile tariff across Wales shows that based upon a two mile journey, the current Welsh average fare on tariff one is £5.78. Merthyr Tydfil’s current two mile fare on tariff one is £5.50 and the new tariff is £6.
