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Camden Council Go Ahead With Their "Stepped Track" Cycle Lanes.
The London Borough of Camden is installing what it says are the capital’s first ‘stepped track’ cycle lanes, where the lane is set at a different height from the adjacent footway and carriageway.The...
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New House of Commons Transport Committee named
Labour MP Louise Ellman has been re-elected as chair of the House of Commons’ Transport Committee. The committee’s remit covers all transport modes and it has looked at parking policy and enforcement...
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Letter To Editor : TfL Say They Can't Cap PH...Is This An Outright Lie ?
Dear JimLTPH are currently putting out tweets saying that they do not have power to restrict PH driver numbers.So, what power did Director of LTPH John Mason have to restrict Yellow Badge Suburban...
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Hackney's ‘parklet’ turns parking bay into social space
The UK’s first San Francisco-style ‘parklet’ has been installed in the London Borough of Hackney. The parklet has been installed on a former loading bay in Pitfield Street to create a space where...
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Man Walks Into A Bank
A wealthy business man walks into a London bank and asks for the loan officer. He says he’s going to Europe on business for two weeks and needs to borrow £5000. The bank officer says the bank will need...
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EE recalls power bars after 'exploding' charger burns woman
A fault was found in some of the free chargers that can cause them to overheat and even explode.Last week, a medical student in Aberdeen tweeted a picture of burns to her hand that she said was caused...
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After UCG Discredit Statement, Surely It's Time Leon Daniels WasSacked ?
Managing Director of surface transport at Transport for London, Leon Daniels has allegedly been caught out lying to the Taxi trade, lying to the public and lying to the GLA transport committee. It...
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London Cabbie Patrick O'Dowd gives his two bobs worth about the stateof our...
London Taxi Driver Patrick O'Dowd, speaks out and gives his views on the desperate situation this trade currently finds itself in.Patrick will be posting a series of video blogs over the next few...
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TfL To Introduce Automated Predictive Signal Timings, In Response ToForecast...
Transport for London is to procure (at great expense to the tax payer) an automated predictive signalling system that adjusts traffic signal timings in response to short-term forecasts of traffic...
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Save London’s Black Cabs Campaign #SaveTaxis : Downing Street Demo1-3pm...
The Save Our Black Taxis campaign group #SaveTaxis, will be holding there 2nd demonstration to protest about these changes on September 5th from 1-3pm opposite Downing Street. Spearheaded by cabbie’s...
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Letter To Editor : Leon's Lies Put Public Safety At Risk And Drivers...
TfL's Managing Director of Surface Transport Leon Daniels, has been proved beyond doubt to have lied on two separate occasions. Plus his misinformation on driver licence renewals has thrown many Taxi...
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Boris Bike And Uber Partner, Santander’s Auto Loan Business UnderFederal...
Each year, Santander underwrites or services billions of dollars worth of auto loans and leases in the USA making it one of the nation’s largest providers of automobile financing. Yesterday, the...
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Another Bad Day For Uber And Leon Daniels.
After consideration by the ASA of complaints received, the following company and organisation agreed to amend or withdraw advertising without the need for a formal investigation:Uber have been made to...
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Uber, Up In Flames At Kings Cross
Flames can be seen ripping through the white Toyota in the clip which was filmed on Euston Road outside King's Cross stationThe dramatic footage below shows the minicab bursting into flames in the...
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Hong Kong police arrest Uber drivers, search office. Tick Tock Leon,Tick Tock...
Hong Kong police have arrested five drivers from Uber in a sting operation and searched its office, media reports said Tuesday, in the latest blow for the global ride-sharing startup.Uber has...
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LTPH's Excuses Won't Wash...Total Failing Licensed Taxi Drivers...byJim Thomas.
After the appalling mess TfL made of driver licence renewals, and after reports that drivers and their families have been put in financial difficulty by being thrown out of work unnecessarily, finally...
View ArticleMayoral Hopeful David Lammy, Gets Passionate About Saving Our BlackTaxis!
The Labour Mayoral hopeful got very passionate yesterday, as he defended the "institution" that is London's black cabs - and rounded on Uber. Diane Abbott, Tessa Jowell and Sadiq Khan all agreed that...
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Letters to the editor: Unanswered questions over Uber
The courts treat driving without insurance very seriously. Those found guilty may be disqualified; if not they will pay a hefty fine and have at least six points taken from their licence, in the case...
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Price Crash: Hacked Uber Accounts, Now Just 40 Cents.
Earlier this year, Motherboard reported that stolen Uber accounts were being sold on the dark web. After it emerged that the accounts were accessed because of password reuse, Uber experimented with...
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Helpful Advice Re Driver Licence Renewals.
Dear Jim, after reading your post on the scandalous state of affairs regarding licence renewaIs, I would like to offer some advice to drivers and hope this helps them get back to work before their old...
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