After the success of Mondays protest, the City Police decided to try to scupper the moral of demonstrators by making a new caveat to the section 14 and reduced the time allowed to just 30 minutes.
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But instead of breaking the spirit of the drivers, it had the opposite affect making them more determined to put the message across.
Police had no liaison with the organisers who were getting the message to the drivers from mouth to mouth. As the demonstrators were ordered to disperse, another venue was given out and the protest became a rolling ply for hire moving on up to Old Street round-about.
Traffic was light but the area was soon bought to a complete standstill as thousands of Taxis changed destination.
By 5 o/c traffic police had turned up on motorbikes and directed cabs away from the round-about. It soon became clear to the police that a third and forth venues had gone out to the troops. Those who could, made their way back to the Bank, others made their way to the London Wall Rotunda.
Well done to the drivers who again have answered the call, fighting the fight for the trade to retain access to the Junction at the Bank.
Before the drivers dispersed, organisers gave out details for tomorrow, with nothing put out on social media, the police left in the dark.
"A spokesperson for the ITA said:
Today has been a great success inspite of the attempt by old bill to scupper the protest.
"Today has been a major success for the ITA, our biggest and best demo so far. We expect even more drivers to attend tomorrow and are confident in getting the message across to the Corporation of London.
"Also we would like to make it perfectly clear that the ITA is completely independent of all the trade orgs and that no org or union committee members have anything to do with our actions today."
It's now 5:50pm and just been told the drivers have been informed to go back to work.
Mission accomplished.
