Dear Orkney News,
My husband had a hospital appointment for 10.30 on Tuesday morning. He has an injured ankle, so can’t drive. I haven’t driven for years as my eye-sight is too bad. For his hospital appointments we’ve been mainly relying on taxis.
It occurred to him to book early, on Monday, in case there was a Liner in. He tried multiple taxi firms – but they were all booked up. Fortunately, the man who is cutting our grass for us also runs a taxi firm ( the Orcadian way of having more than one job!). He said he’d take us and bring us back. Problem solved.
But – the situation now is that when there are Liners in, the people who live here can’t get a taxi when they need one, for example, for a hospital appointment.
That isn’t right.
Yours, Bernie Bell, Orkney