The driver, who wants to stay anonymous, has been a cabbie in Plymouth since 2003 and says the lack of taxi drivers is similar to the lorry driver issue.
Last week, Plymouth City Council revealed plans to help increase the number of drivers in the city as well as make taxis safer and greener.
They involved scrapping the cap on the number of hackney carriages Plymouth can have on the streets.
The cap stands at 346 drivers, but the number of taxi drivers in the city has fallen to 315 in the past two years, with Covid-19 playing a huge part in that.
The proposals also aim to encourage cabbies and operators to go green, with a phased approach to making the city’s fleet either new or electric powered.
A new green livery is also among the plans – aimed at giving people confidence they are hailing a properly licensed and approved cab.
However, these new ideas have not gone down well, and one taxi driver says the proposals “simply won’t work”.
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