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New Year New Challenge for London Cab Drivers
After three London cabbies lost twelve stones and climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in 2019 for charity, the new year is heralding a much bigger challenge for a group of thirty London Cab DriversTwo of the...
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TfL Response to UTAG Pre Action Letter
Late on Tuesday, December 10th 2019 we received TfL's reply to our Pre Action Letter, which we shared with you last week.Our QC has given us clearance to share this reply with you.The content is...
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Councils accused of hypocrisy over diesel after 91.6% of fleets foundto run...
LOCAL authorities have been accused of hypocrisy after it was found that councils are punishing members of the public for driving diesel vehicles while running fleets of vehicles that predominantly run...
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Just Like Uber, Losses Mount For Indian Ride Hailing App Ola
In its latest move, Ola have started registering licensed private hire drivers in London. Interestingly, although Ola have been in talks with TfL for many months, the London foray only came about 24...
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Brent Council Bids For TfL Funding To Make Park Royal Industrial Estate...
Brent Council could spend more than £1 million to encourage sustainable transport around an industrial area.Its cabinet agreed to support a bid for funding from Transport for London (TfL) for works in...
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Camden’s Cycling Lobby Are At it Again With A Proposal To Split The Taxi Trade
A letter from former Councillor and now cycling lobbyist Paul Braithwaite, has appeared in the Islington Tribune asking that the Taxi trade be split in two with only electric Taxis allowed to use the...
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If You Thought A Two Tier Taxi Rank System Couldn’t Be Done... Think Again,...
In 2013, Amsterdam introduced a new policy that regulates taxis that are engaged at a licensed taxi rank or hailed on the street. Since then, the number of taxis in the city has grown and there have...
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Tottenham Court Road... Taxis To Be Banned From March. Drivers Who Showed...
Camden Council has almost bought the area around Fitzrovia to a complete standstill. The lunatics have taken over the asylum. In three months time, cars, lorries and taxis will be banned from accessing...
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City of London’s Beech Street set to become UK’s first 24/7 zeroemission street
The City of London Corporation has today [16 December] backed plans to launch the UK’s first 24/7 zero emission street in a bid to improve air quality in the Square Mile.Beech Street, much of which...
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Taxi Leaks Exposé...Who’s Really Behind The Ludicrous No Left Turn IntoNew...
It’s turns out we’ve been blaming the wrong criminal... it’s not the City of London who have introduced the crazy no left turn from Ludgate Hill on to New Bridge Street, it’s our friends at TfL under...
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London Assembly Environment Committee, Call On Mayor To Instruct TfL To Clean...
Mayor of London pledged to tackle pollution and poor air on the London Underground. 3 years on, little progress has been made in understanding health risks from Toxic Tube Dust. A letter from the GLA...
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Taxi Trade’s Weak Representation, Held In Complete Contempt By Both TfL And...
After hearing from our largest representative group, that Taxis will be allowed to use the Bus Gates at Shorter Street and Bywater Street into Great Tower Street...we are then told we will have to wait...
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Selling Off The Family Silver And Pushing The Travelling Public Towards The Tube
Plans to transform the former offices of Transport for London (TfL) headquarters above the St James’s Park station into a 526-bedroom hotel have been now revealed.TfL sold the 150-year lease of the...
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Transport for London’s harebrained "no-left-turn" at the Camden Street/Camden...
This would run completely contrary to Camden’s long-established policy of removing through-traffic from small residential streets. TfL say their plan "will impact only a small number of vehicles, which...
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Las Vegas Airport Taxis Switch To Fixed Prices To The Strip After 6 Month Trial
The rates went into effect after a 6-month pilot program.If someone takes a taxi from the airport to the area of the Las Vegas Strip closest to the airport, it will now cost a flat fee of $19. If the...
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Major Catastrophe Avoided Through The Quick Response Of BCH Motorway Policing...
Another major catastrophe has been avoided through the quick action of BCH Motorway police. A Transport for London registered minicab driver, was seen driving on the wrong side of the M1 with...
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Ninth Bus/ Pedestrian Collision On Tottenham Court Road Since New Scheme...
A man has been hit by a bus near Tottenham Court Road and Warren Street stationThe road was blocked in both directions while emergency services attended the sceneA man hit by a bus close to one of...
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Public Announcement From United Taxi Action Group.
Breaking News: Public Announcement From United Taxi Action Group. Ladies & Gentlemen, we are immensely proud of our team @UTAG17 & @chilternlaw2013 alongside our Barrister & QC. We have now...
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Has The London Taxi Trade Missed The Boat With Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology ???
Nearly 20 years ago, a consortium presented a London Taxi (TX1) to the PCO that was zero emission, could run all day on one tank of fuel, with a range of 250 miles and could be refuelled in 5...
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UK Police Have wasted One And A Half Million Pounds On Electric Cars That...
Police forces in the United Kingdom have squandered over a million pounds on electric cars that are incapable of chasing criminals or performing emergency services because the eco-friendly vehicles are...
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