If You Think Uber Crashes Are Bad Now, Wait Till They Start Using Autonomous...
Walter Huang had told his wife that the vehicle's autopilot had seen it veer towards the same barrier where he crashed.An Apple engineer who died when his self-driving Tesla hit a concrete barrier had...
View ArticleDon’t Cry For Me Camden Council, The Truth Is I Cant Ride A Bike 🎶
Statement on Twitter from Elaine Paige:What’s happening to London? Tottenham Court Road and Gower Street road closures, more cycle lanes, with no access for cars and taxis. Our ageing population can't...
View ArticleNOTTINGHAM PRIVATE HIRE DRIVERS WIN RIGHT TO WORK MULTIPLE PLATFORMS
· Private hire drivers will now be allowed to work simultaneously for multiple platforms, such as local companies alongside Uber. · The move could see work opportunities and income improve for...
View ArticleWeek One And Ola Already Contravening Regulation, Going The Same Route As Uber
It would appear that new boy in town Ola, is going down the same route as Uber. A London Taxi knowledge student who has signed on to the app has reported that the Indian instant hailing app is already...
View ArticleAEG make Addison Lee Official Ride Partner At London Venues Wembly, O2
Addison Lee, minicab service, has been made the official ride partner for London venues The O2 and The SSE Arena, Wembley.The three-year deal, brokered by AEG Global Partnerships, is a strategic move...
View ArticleMinicabs Parking On Taxi Ranks ... Not On My Watch They Ain’t : London Bridge...
Amazing thing is, minicabs park on Taxi ranks all day long and never a CO in sight....and yet if three taxis were to park on a rank for two, half a dozen TfL COs turn up and start giving out tickets...
View ArticleRMT London Taxi Union Vote To Hold TfL To Account For Failing To Implement...
At last nights branch meeting, the membership of the RMT London Taxi branch voted unanimously, to to ask General secretary MickCash, to look again at bringing an injunction against TfLTPH. The London...
View ArticleAs Uber Moves Support To India And The Philippines In Search Of...
Is the dream over...has the house of cards lost it’s footing....has the ride share, instant hail app bubble, finally burst?Uber has closed another customer support office, this time in downtown Los...
View ArticleTaxi Drivers Claim Councils Are Using Taxi and Private Hire Licenses As A...
A taxi company which claims to be the longest-running in a seaside town has collapsed into administration.Anglia Taxis, established in 1974, is thought to be the longest running cab company in Great...
View ArticleVeterans visit The Netherlands for Commemoration services
A group of veterans were taken to Gennep by the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans during February to attend commemoration servicesGennep is a small town on The Netherlands German border which played a...
View ArticleLocal Cabbies Took Regulator To Court And Won, Proving It Can Be done. #UTAG17
Revealed: Wakefield Council's legal bill for High Court taxi caseWakefield Council spent £13,500 on its doomed legal defence against a case brought by local taxi drivers.The local authority was deemed...
View ArticleKing's Cross Station will be completely closed this weekend, No train...
King's Cross station will be completely closed this weekend.The closure will mean no trains will run in or out of the busy train station to allow East Coast upgrade work to take place.Passengers are...
View ArticleSadiq Khan "London Is Safe": Woman Attacked By Muggers Inside A Black Cab...
Just heard a frightening story in one of my WhatsApp groups. A driver on point of Harrods Rank, picked up an oriental lady with her two daughters. She gave him her destination but before he could drive...
View ArticleNew Name For Airport Hotel ...The Corona Inn
The hotel was seen being boarded up on Thursday, February 27The Holiday Inn in Harlington, near Heathrow Airport, has been designated a quarantine site for patients who suspect they may have...
View ArticleCan Boston’s Taxi Industry Be Saved? ...City Councillors Want To Try.
Boston’s taxi industry has seen better days.Before transportation networking companies — better known as ride sharing businesses like Uber and Lyft — populated the hail-a-ride market, the medallions...
View ArticleKnightsbridge Hotel Illegally Bans Taxi Drivers From Using Toilet Facilities....
Time for our orgs and unions to represent their subscription paying members. It has been bought to our attention that another Hotel (The Jumeirah Lowndes Hotel) is currently turning away Taxi drivers...
View ArticleA Fleet Of London Taxis, Take WWII Veterans To Visit HMS Queen Elizabeth
On 28 February a group of veterans enjoyed a private visit to the Royal Navy’s largest aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, as special guests of the Captain and CommodoreA fleet of six London Licensed...
View ArticleAir Quality Action Day, A Waste Of Time And Tax Payers Money?
Air quality in Westminster is worse than at anytime in the past and the reason for this lies squarely at the feet of Westminster City Council planners. Vehicular traffic is being unnecessarily detained...
View ArticleAre TfL Turning A Blind Eye To Illegal Parking On Working Taxi Ranks???
TfL have put out another statement this morning via their twitter account, aimed solely at "Taxi Drivers" saying Taxis must not be left unattended on working ranks.Most Taxi drivers believe this...
View ArticleCoronavirus Tube fears as TfL worker at Palestra tests positive for killer...
A TRANSPORT for London worker has tested positive for coronavirus in the capital’s traffic control centre building.Worried staff at Palestra House, in Blackfriars, were told this morning that a...
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