Article: Vic: Taxi driver protection screens to be mandatory: Kosky


AAP General News (Australia)
06-19-2008
Vic: Taxi driver protection screens to be mandatory: Kosky

MELBOURNE, June 19 AAP - Driver safety screens will be mandatory in all Melbourne cabs
operating at night, Transport Minister Lynne Kosky has announced.

Ms Kosky told drivers at a taxi forum today the screens would be compulsory in metropolitan
and regional centres to protect drivers.

The screens must be installed by December 31 but it will be up to individual drivers
to decide if they use them on shifts.

"I've made the decision that we're making it mandatory now that every taxi that operates
in the metropolitan, the outer suburban and the urban taxi zones, to have a driver protection
...

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