Wesley Stevenson
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1,470 appearances
54 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2010
last heard May 2015
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And what if we were to have a return journey in there?
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How much would it be then, if the cab was full both ways?
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That's great, Greg.
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Thank you very much for your help with that.
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That's brilliant.
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Thank you.
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Well, the government could then put this towards the taxi fare, so the passenger pays around 8 cents per kilometre for the train.
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If they were then to put that towards the taxi fare, this would bring down the cost of each passenger kilometre in a taxi to 16 cents, vastly cheaper than the subsidised trains.
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Which are 75 cents.
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That's right.
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So using the listeners' suggestions, this would mean that the former Greek finance minister who originally put this idea forward, Stephanos Manos, was right.
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Yes, they're all very good questions.
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Now, you may remember that we calculated that each kilometre travelled by each passenger on the Greek railways in 2010 cost €60, and we worked out that a taxi cost €1.20 per kilometre, but this was based on one traveller in each cab.
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Well, we need to know a little bit more information here, so I called our friendly Greek cab driver Greg, Mr Taxi in Thessaloniki, to get another quote.
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Hello.
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Oh, hello.
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Is that Greg?
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Hi there, Greg.
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It's Wesley here from the BBC in London.
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How are you?
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