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EXCLUSIVE: Have the LTDA finally woken up? By Jim Thomas
This very afternoon representatives from the Taxi trade, in the form of the LTDA, LCDC and Unite (no RMT them), met with Boris Johnson and TfL to discuss the way in which Uber are currently operating...
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After Yesterday's All Trade (Taxi And Private Hire) Meeting, TfLReleases...
TfL invites trades to help shape regulatory framework for taxi and private hire apps09 April 2014Smart phone apps offer significant potential benefits to passengers, drivers and operatorsTransport for...
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Brighton taxi drivers step up fight against deregulation. Source: TheArgus.
Brighton taxi drivers have launched a campaign against the deregulation of the industry, which they claim could put public safety at risk.Under current licensing regulations, companies can only handle...
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Multinational Threat From PH Smart Phone App, As Licensed By TfL. ByJim Thomas
Having read the recent press statement, released after TfL met with the Taxi and private hire trade in regards to a certain smartphone app, I firmly believe it to be no more than a knee jerk reaction...
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London City Airport Workers Say Nef Off
London's City Airport should close and its site be redeveloped to create jobs, boost local business and build new homes, a think tank has said.The airport accounts for just 2.4% of London's total...
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Cab:Apps Letter To Dial-a-Cab Members.
Dear all Dial-a-Cab Members and fellow drivers,We have followed with interest the speculation surrounding the bids for DAC, particularly the article dated 7th April in the London Taxi Drivers Forum,...
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The Summer Of Discontent..By Spartacus.
Looks like it's all coming together in a perfect storm.The Law Comm does a U turn on defining "Plying for Hire".The deregulation bill has clauses meaning a free for all outside London and likely inside...
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For All We Know: 160 WW2 veterans, 80 Taxis: A film about music,memories and...
A musical documentary following an extraordinary road trip with 160 WW2 veterans: a film about music, memories and comradeship.We’re raising funds to start making FOR ALL WE KNOW (working title), a...
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Men remanded re Cumberland Hotel assault
A man charged with the attempted murder of three women at a central London hotel and two others charged with offences including handling stolen goods have been remanded in custody, Saturday, 12...
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Uber Made Illegal In Brussels: Two Uber Drivers Vehicles Seized ByPolice
Uber has run into trouble with the Belgian government and its legislators. A week after launching an urban P2P ride-sharing service called UberPOP in Brussels, the first (completely privately-held)...
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Statement Put Out By London Private Hire Car Association .
@TfLTPH News Release - TfL invites trades to help shape regulatory framework for taxi and private hire apps Click here for TfL Press Release - re Smart Phone Apps.We’re surprised that TfL TPH issued a...
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Who do you think you are kidding Mr. Daniels' by Warden Hodges
Time to ask some hard questions about how Über managed to obtain a TfL Private hire licence and quite how TfL are protecting the travelling public.Leon Daniels (yes the very same Leon Daniels our...
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TfL, Totally Out Of Control And Unfit For Purpose. By Jim Thomas.
Do these people believe they are above the law?Do they really believe they are untouchable and irreplaceable?By refusing to act against a company, that they have admitted is acting in an unlawful...
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Vote Of No Confidence In TfL From The Private Hire Trade.
London Private Hire industry questions Transport for London’s fitness to regulate• Populus poll shows 80% of people are not aware that some cars booked through new smartphone apps are not licensed and...
View ArticleThe Reason Why Ticket Offices Must Remain Open And Manned.
Ticket offices have to remain open and manned because there is always one idiot who gets stuck and needs help.
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The Collateral Damage That Comes From TfL, Local Councils And The Met,Turning...
Great Britain is in the throes of a rape and pedophilia epidemic unlike anything the country has experienced in living memory.The number of so called unlicensed minicab related rapes is snowballing to...
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In the Wake Of Brussels Decision, "Über ist Verboten" in Berlin .
Germany's capital city has followed the lead of Brussels and banned the insurgent taxi service Uber.The injuction was brought forward by none other than Richard Leipold, a taxi operator and chairman...
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Nissan, burned on taxi deal, teases New Yorkers with a new prototype
First New York reneged on its contract to make the Nissan NV200 the city's official taxi last year. Now the cops want to write it a ticket.Stiff-upper-lipped Nissan rolled out a couple of mock NV200...
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TfL...Totally Failing London. Public Safety Put At Risk...by Jim Thomas.
Tiger Tiger has now reverted back to a free for all at weekends. Drivers from Diamond Chauffeurs Ltd, who have the licence variation to operate the satellite office at the Nightclub/bar, are parking...
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TFL NEED TO GET THEIR PRIORITIES RIGHT: Bully Boy Tactics FromCompliance...
Saturday night:While confrontation with violent touts raged outside Central London's Tiger Tiger, the scene of the 2007 car bomb attack, LTPH's ace trouble shooter, ex police officer of 30 years and...
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