sentences:  Firstly, the government has been waiting for the taxi industry to form one cohesive association that can speak on behalf of taxi owners; secondly, there is a lot of disagreement from taxi owners as to the nature that the re-capitalisation scheme should take.One major sticking point is the possibility of job losses caused by the uptake of the larger buses.The government attempted to do research into the extent of the prospective job losses in 2000, but the research team was threatened, and research was abandoned.