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Massive gridlock after pensioner cyclist severely injured in Chiswickcar...

A 69-year-old cyclist was taken to hospital with head injuries following an incident in Sutton Court RoadHammersmith traffic came to a standstill this yesterday (Feb 11) from tailbacks caused after a...

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Cabdrivers fight back with their own ride app: Flywheel

As David Robertson drives through San Francisco, a GPS-enabled smartphone app alerts him about people who want to hire him for a ride via their own smartphones. It shows him their location with...

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French taxi drivers call for 'indefinite strike'

The announcement will not go down well with Parisians or tourists but angry taxi drivers in France are clearly not willing to lie down without a fight. On Tuesday they called for an "indefinite...

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Thugs did this to cabbie Ken, 77, for £11: Southend taxi driver badlybeaten...

A TAXI driver aged 77 was badly beaten by teenage thugs who refused to pay an £11 fare.Kenneth Wolfe, of Chalfont Close, Leigh, was left with a broken jaw, broken eye socket and two lost teeth after he...

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Sir Peter Hendy’s personal complaints procedure.

All London bus users are equal, but some are more equal than others.Especially if your name is Sir Peter Hendy. On his way to a meeting at the Houses of Parliament today, Mr Steerpike hears that...

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TfL Seek Views On Suburban Taxi Licensing

Consultation launched to review suburban taxi driver licensing arrangementsKey themes include licence areas, driver numbers, island ranks and sector extensionsTfL keen for views in order to shape...

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TfL, Consultation On The Future Of Capital Call

Disabled people in Merton could have their independence restricted if a vital transport service is cut.Capital Call, a telephone service used by disabled people to book transport and find out how much...

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TAXI LEAKS RESPONSE: The Suburban Consultation, TfL Notice 01/14.

As I've said many times before, there's just no hope whilst all this ranting goes on. MAKE YOUR RESPONSE!PH and Touting is hitting us hard, very hard yet many seem to prefer to pretend that's not...

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Britain's largest electric minicab deal collapses.

London's second largest minicab firm pulls plug on deal for 50 Chinese electric carsLondon’s second-largest minicab operator has pulled out of a deal that would have put 50 electric taxis on the...

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300 taxi drivers protest in Dublin city over ads, parking and too manytaxis

(Tickets soon to be issued by ID barcode scanners by compliance teams in London, could carry special penalty points against Taxi licence)UP TO 300 taxi drivers rallied in Dublin today over a range of...

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TFL Salaries Outrageous: Taxi Drivers Get 0.7% Increase, While BorisJohnson's...

Boris Johnson's two top aides now get paid more than David Cameron.In a week that saw the annual increase in Taxis fares set at just 0.7%, plus an announcement that drivers will soonno longer be able...

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Calgary Taxis May Be Forced To Work Friday and Saturday Nights.

CALGARY – Getting a taxi in Calgary at peak times could be a lot easier.The head of taxi licensing in Calgary wants to force the city’s fleet of over 1,500 taxi drivers to be ready for dispatch between...

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Fares Increase, Lowest For 14 Years: Press Release a From TfL.

A press release today from TfL points out that the forthcoming fare increase will be the lowest since TfL took over the responsibility for licensing Taxis from the Metropolitan Police.The Press release...

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One To Watch: Cabbies launch petition against Newcastle BoroughCouncil’s...

FURIOUS taxi drivers have launched a petition to fight plans to tighten age restrictions on their vehicles.Newcastle Borough Council is looking to stop re-licensing hackney carriage cars when they are...

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Row over cycle hire sponsor's '£10m free advertising' claim

Transport bosses have not received any funding for the expansion of the cycle hire scheme to south-west London from its sponsors Barclays.A document from August 2011, released via a Freedom of...

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Big Brother Is Watching...But Who's Watching The Watchers?

Over the last 8 years, The Anderson Shelter and Taxi Leaks blogs have been subject to a number of cyber attacks. These have ranged from simple comment abuse (mass comments from the same IP address,...

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Edinburgh Taxi Company City Cabs, Fight Back Against Minicab Apps.

Edinburgh Taxi company City Cabs, have started a fight back in the City and surrounding area against the onslaught from the minicab app.The Cab company has raised its profile with a new advertising...

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Cardiff Cabbies Threaten Strike Action Over Illegally Plying For HireBy...

Cardiff Hackney Carriage Association has threatened to go on strike unless the council has a crack down on private hire cars are claimed to be illegally poaching customers.Hailing a taxi has never been...

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Manchester Taxi Drivers, Take On Their Licensing Auhority.

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Another Victory For The RMT Ranks And Highways Team:

Great newsThe Ranks and Highways team for the RMT, again wrote to leading members on the GLA and also to certain members of the House of Lords regarding the situation concerning unbooked minicabs and...

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