Bank Junction: Taxi Drivers Blockade Junction Over Exclusion Plan....By Jim...
London’s Taxi drivers brought traffic to a standstill again yesterday, at the start of a five-day protest over their exclusion from the a Bank Junction.Thousands of Taxis descended on the Junction at...
View ArticleI Have A Fishing Rob...Doesn't Mean I Can Fish.... By Lee Ward.
I have continued to work on my theory (knowledge actually) of the Uber App being illegal, and have continued to search for further evidence.Some information that I was intrigued to read was from the...
View ArticleBank Junction Blockade, Day 2 Another Resounding Success.... By JimThomas
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. But...
View ArticleMajor Victory For The Taxi Trade, Over Who Can Call Themselves ATaxi..... By...
Seems a Minicab company can no longer pretend to be a Taxi!Well done to everyone who made the effort to put in a complaint to the ASA, after it was shown Addison Lee had changed the heading on their...
View ArticleBank Junction Blockade Day 3 : Plans Kept Off Social Media Leaves CityPolice...
It gets worse!.... By Dave Davies.The Planning and Transport Committee have given permission for two massive sky scrapers, just a couple of hundred metres away from Bank Junction. Chair of the...
View ArticleBlockade at the bank Day 4 : New Day, New Plan.... By Jim Thomas
After the police slapped a section 14 on the Demo at the Bank, organisers decided to throw a curve ball in retaliation to the 30 minute restriction and changed the venue for day 3 to Parliament Square....
View ArticleSo what drives me? .... By Lee Ward.
I am sure that the regular readers of Taxi Leaks have noticed that I have supplied posts to this platform, but I have never explained why.Let me give you a little background to myself first.I have been...
View ArticleHOLDING THE MAYOR TO ACCOUNT AND INVESTIGATING ISSUES THAT MATTER TOLONDONERS
Over a decade ago, London led the world by introducing a Congestion Charge in the centre of the city. The scheme has proven successful, keeping a lid on private motor traffic and creating new space for...
View ArticleAnother Day, Another Demo, Another Success.
Again, yesterday afternoon, rank and file drivers answered the call and assembled at the Bank Junction, despite another section 14 being slapped on the peaceful protest, limiting a static demonstration...
View ArticleLondon Taxi Protests : End The Traffic Khanage With A Public InquiryInto...
Thousands of London Taxi Drivers have been forced to protest on a daily basis by the continued improper and unlawful decisions of TFL and Sadiq Khan.There have been many failed and improper policies of...
View ArticleBANK JUNCTION TAXI EXCLUSION UPDATE : City of London Peace TalksAnnounced......
DAY 5For five days, the passionate driver led coalition of the Independent Taxi Alliance (ITA), with little or no support from the leadership of our largest org, led the police around the City on a cat...
View ArticleAnyone Can Hold The Helm When The Sea Is Calm........by Semtex.
There was a hell of a lot to learn about the Great London Cab Trade this week, and not just regarding our access to the Bank Junction.When I stood on the steps of the Royal Exchange on one of our...
View ArticleMore Insight To What Life Will Be Like Without London's Taxis...
A wheelchair user says he was left on the side of the road by an Uber driver who refused to take him.Joshua Gardner, had ordered an Uber to take him to the pub to meet his friends on Monday. He...
View ArticleThe Independent Taxi Alliance (ITA) prove the future is happeningnow! ...by...
I hope you have all recovered from an unprecedented week long protest. I will expand on the merits of the ITA demo and its significance in next weeks post but the one thing that struck me was, how...
View ArticlePETITION : VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE IN LEON DANIELS.
Leon Daniels has in his capacity as Managing Director of surface transport, approved and introduced measures that have brought Londons capital to a standstill, increasing congestion, increasing...
View ArticleTfL Using Uber Fo Business Travel, While Mike Brown Refuses To AnswerQuestion...
News broke yesterday that the UPHD Union had made a freedom of information request and found TfL to be Using Uber for Business travel. Taxi leaks would like to know, how it's possible, that Mayor Sadiq...
View ArticleSomething Else You Won't See On TV, Or Read About In The MainstreamMedia......
The London Taxi homeless sandwich run went very well tonight, everything went and not a drop off coffee and tea left.Big thank you to a couple of cabbies that came down tonight with bags off clothes...
View ArticleBiker architect ‘killed by bus driver who couldn’t see him’
On the same day the head of surface transport lectures a conference on road safety, one of his bus drivers appeared in court, accused of killing a principal architect at Network Rail, while driving...
View ArticleThere Are Three Types Of Lies. Lies, Damn Lies AndStatistics...
It was way back in 1970 that I left school as a fifteen year old. My sixteenth birthday was in July during the school summer holiday. Three weeks after my sixteenth birthday in 1970, I had taken the...
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