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Taxi Drivers Protest Against Mike Browns Snub Of Trade Orgs.... By JimThomas
Protesting Taxi drivers brought Blackfriars Road (and most of London) to a standstill for almost three hours during Tuesday evening's rush hour, in a protest against Transport for London's commissioner...
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Minimum Wage Threat To Minicab Firms Like Uber And Addison Lee
Transport minister John Hayes said Uber and other private hire companies could be forced to sign up to tough new licences to ensure they pay staff the minimum wageUber and other private hire companies...
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GMB -Brighton And Hove Taxi Section- Confirms, Uber Is Private HireOperator.
Email sent to a considerably large list: Once again it appears we see that Uber are trying to escape the fact that they are blatantly a Private Hire Operator with insistence that they are a...
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GLA Unanimously Call On Khan Not To Renew Uber's Licence.
The Mayor is facing calls to ensure the licence of car hailing app Uber is not renewed, unless the company improves its working practices.The London Assembly is extremely concerned about the effects of...
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No More Stalling From Mayor, As Department Of Transport Steps Up To TheOche.
After the Mayor's snub to the London Taxi trade by shutting the door on engagement with trade representative orgs and unions, it now seems the recent row between Sadiq Khan and transport Secretary...
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Highways England trialling different variable speed limits
Anyone driving on the M3 last week may not have realised it but they were taking part in a secret test of variable speed limits. Highways England said that though it didn’t publicise the fact, it was...
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Anti-Uber activist Russell Howarth ordered to pay $400,000 in legalcosts
An anti-Uber activist who was slapped with a court order banning him from intimidating and harassing drivers has been ordered to pay almost $400,000 in legal costs, in the final chapter of a protracted...
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What A Pantomime: Mayor Khan Says London Is Open...Oh No It's Not !
From midday until approximately midnight on Wednesday 12 July, a number of roads in and around Trafalgar Square and Whitehall will be closed to all traffic. This is due to an event. Travel advice...
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Potential Implications Of The Taylor Report, Appears To Be Bad News ForUber...
This evening The Telegraph published a reporton what they say will be in the Taylor report on Modern Employment Practices due out on Tuesday. The report, commissioned by Theresa May, will advise the...
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Uber Driver Who Sexually Attacked Lone Women Has Been Sentence To 12years
It appears that the Metropolitan police are complicit in massaging the UberRape statistics. In their original report, on their own web page, they call this animal a minicab driver...they also make a...
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TX5 Launches In London : As Another Electric Car, Left...
The New TX Taxi officially launches in London this week. The TX5 is powered by a battery electric powertrain with a 1.3-litre petrol generator, a system which its maker calls eCity. It can charge from...
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Oxford city council targets it's 107 licensed taxis to cut emissions
Oxford city council plans to phase out older taxis from operating within the city, and will look to invest over £500,000 for the installation of dedicated electric car charging points, it has announced...
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The APPG On Taxis Report, Lessons From London : The Future Of The UKTaxi Trade
You can read the report hereThe APPG on Taxis today launched their comprehensive report Lessons from London: the future of the UK taxi trade after a three month investigation led by its Chair Wes...
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Key Uber Employee Leaves the Embattled Tech Company In Yet Another SexScandal
The Uber manager who headed Susan Fowler’s department has departedAG Gangadhar ran the engineering unit where the former female engineer — whose blog post on sexism sparked recent investigations —...
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Urgent call for a STATUTORY PUBLIC INQUIRY into TfL
On Friday 6th January 2017, a meeting took place with the Prime Minister Theresa May, asking for a Statutory Public Inquiry into Transport for London (TfL). During the meeting, Mrs May was handed...
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"Posing As Legitimate Minicab, Preferred Method Of Dangerous...
How will your night end???Back in 2014, clause 10 was dropped from the deregulation bill that went through parliament. This would reflect the view that all over the UK, (except in London...
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MPs Warn Of Taxi Law Loopholes...TfL Accused Of Facilitating Abuse.
Safety measures around taxi licencing set up in the wake of the Rotherham abuse scandal are being circumvented by rogue drivers, a cross-party group of MPs has said.Loopholes in national licencing laws...
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Police Seize Uber Car After Crash In Brighton...No Insurance. Call...
On Friday July 14 2017 an Uber TfL minicab was involved in a collision in Brighton & Hove.This vehicle was then seized by the police for having no insuranceUber actively encourages not only TfL...
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Lee Ward (ALPHA Chairman) Explains Why/How Uber Is Operating...
1. After many years involved in the Taxi and Private Hire industry, I was intrigued when Uber came to these shores, my intrigue was in regards to how they operated in its home country the USA and how...
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Westminster Conservative Councillor Richard Holloway, Accuses LTDA OfLying...
Westminster Conservative Councillor Richard Holloway, accused the LTDA of spreading complete and utter Lies, after their twitter post claimed that an Uber driver had appeared in Wimbledon Magistrates...
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