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China's Geely buys U.K. electric-car startup
By Colum MurphySHANGHAI--Chinese auto maker Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co. said it has acquired British electric-vehicle startup Emerald Automotive for an undisclosed sum. Emerald Automotive CEO...
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Massive loop hole: Suburban consultation online survey flawed.
It has been bought to our attention that there is a massive loop hole in the suburban consultation review (online survey).Individual drivers or certain groups (serving a particular agenda) are...
View ArticleBuses Are The Problem On Our Roads ( There's a surprise)
Jeremy Ckackson: Taxi drivers are very polite, some are extremely polite, car and van drivers are courteous. But there is one type of driver who's not courteous at all...the Bus Driver. All of these...
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Forum To Discuss Plans To Make Baker Street And Gloucester Place TwoWay,...
Some time ago, Taxi Leaks posted an article about a proposal to make Baker Street and Gloucester Place two way, with a restriction in the middle of Baker Street for buses and cycles only. Cycles and...
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Taxi trade overlooked, as Tenison Way Set to be transformed in £4bnroads...
Tenison Way, no longer to be a round about.The IMAX roundabout at Waterloo is to be redeveloped, intending to create a better interchange facility at Waterloo station. The whole reasoning and expense...
View ArticleLicence Renewals: Just When You Thought It Can't Get Any Worse...byJimThomas
A friend of mine has now been waiting 90 days for his CRB check to come back. His licence has now run out and he is effectively out of work. I spoke to him last night and his last words to me was:"How...
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'Unprecedented' complaints against TfL boss include sexual harassmentand 45...
Following on from the scandal where Sir Peyer Hendy was exposed as paying prostitute Rachael Grundy £140 an hour after surfing an adult sex website, now a senior Transport for London manager tipped as...
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Dutch taxi firm will be first to operate new e-NV200.
Dutch Taxi company, "Taxi Electric" will become the first taxi company to have the new Nissan e-NV200 on its books. The Amsterdam-based company already runs a fleet consisting exclusively of Nissan...
View ArticleMinicab driver banned because of 'concerns about contact withschoolgirls'
A PRIVATE hire driver has lost his licence after concerns were raised about his contact with schoolgirls.The driver, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had his licence removed by Bolton Council’s...
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Danes report accident fall after speed limit rise
Motorists association the Alliance of British Drivers has seized on a newspaper report that accidents have gone down on Danish single carriageway roads where the speed limits have been increased.The...
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Is Uber Acting Outside The Law To Gain Foothold In Austin? Police SayUber...
Austin Police Department Warns SXSW Attendees Not To Use UberHere’s something you might not have noticed if you were partying it up at SXSW and using Uber to get around: Your Uber might not be...
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General secretary of the Rail Maritime and Transport union Bob Crow hasdied.
The 52-year-old is believed to have suffered a heart attack and died in the early hours of Tuesday morning.London Mayor Boris Johnson, with whom he clashed over plans for the Tube, said: "I am shocked....
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TfL 'improving' Elephant & Castle, allegedly....by TransportCorrespondent,...
Radical changes at the northern roundabout will reduce the impact of traffic and make the area feel cleaner and greener?!?The proposals include the removal of the roundabout and creation of a major new...
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TfL are 'improving' Elephant & Castle. Radical changes at the northern roundabout will reduce the impact of traffic and make the area feel cleaner and greener?!?The proposals include the removal of...
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Exclusive: First Look At Interior Of The eNV200 Electric Zero EmissionTaxi.
The electric version of the NV200 is currently on display at the 2014 Geneva motor show. This is the very model being built in Holland that will go into service in Amsterdam later this summer, joining...
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Einstein's Definition of Madness.
The growth of PH and the subsequent long downhill run on our living standards has been caused in part by our apathy to come together and defend them.Another reason was that in busy times Radio Circuit...
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Prisoner or soldier?
Can't help but notice one of the trade rags celebrating its membership numbers, you know the one, the army established to 'fight the minicab menace', we know how that battle went don't we?They and...
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UBER'S RIDERSHARING SERVICE MAY ENCOUNTER POTENTIAL ROADBLOCKS AHEAD
A man directs taxi traffic in front of Las Vegas Convention Center during CES on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014. Uber, a rideshare and car-for-hire app that’s popular in larger cities isn’t allowed in Las...
View ArticleLed to Victory
Continuing the military theme, I bring news from the camp of another victory.No more doom and gloom.Our gallant commanders have without any thought of themselves managed to support another below...
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Man jailed after machine gun and bullets are recovered from minicab.
A machine gun was found in a minicab after police observed a shadowy handover on a residential street. Beren Marshall. Mohammed Ali Police officers found...
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