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Support Back Taxi's Demands To Be Addressed By The Mayor And TfL...bySean Day.
London's licensed taxi trade actively opposes the violent action taken by taxi drivers in Paris against those working from off-shore based app corporations. However, to quell the growing unrest...
View ArticlePoker Anyone? ...by Semtex.
When I served in the Guards, and depending whereabouts in the world we were, or what our deployment was, we often used to deal a few hands of poker, to kill time.I did ok, won a few, lost a few, but...
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Press Release From iZettle Team : Don't Upgrade to iOS 9.0.
On September 16th, Apple will release a new version of iPhone and iPad software, called iOS 9.0. We've tested it, and there's a problem in it. You should not update to iOS 9.0. The problem causes...
View ArticleThe £6m Bus Lane: Outrage Over 'Entrapment'
Camera enforcement of bus lanes seems to have overtaken parking tickets as the major cause for complaint from motorists, according to the AA.The motoring organisation is now calling on the...
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Operation Neon...Three Months In And Zero Convictions.
We are now three months into Operation Neon and the TfL has just released its compliance statistics.As of 24th August this year:a) 3,021 licensed minicabs openly plying for hire have been "advised" to...
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Westminster Hall Debate On The Deteriorating State Of Our Trade.
If you have the time, please watch today's Westminster debate on the future of London's Taxi and Private Hire trades.>Click Here For Full Westminster Debate<If you'd prefer to read the transcript...
View ArticleUCG, Write To Prime Minister To Request Urgent Meeting To Discuss TfL'sFailings.
Dear Prime Minister,I am writing to you on behalf of the United Cabbies Group ( UCG ) in particular and the London Taxi trade in general.We are an organisation that represents many Licensed London...
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Boris Causes Chaos, Calling Cabbies Luddites.
Today’s Mayor’s Question Time had to be abandoned after pandemonium broke out when Mayor Boris Johnson referred to assembled Taxi drivers as Luddites.Because so many drivers turned up for the Mayors...
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Letters to the editor : Alleged insults, collusion and fabrication
I cannot remember the last time London saw such a sustained, systematic and energised cohesive by so many individuals as it did yesterday. To say that it was driver led should be of great concern to...
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James O'Briens Rip Roaring Rant In Favour Of London's Taxi Drivers
Just incase you missed it, here is the full version of James's takedown of "fraud" Boris Johnson as the LBC presenter defended London cabbies.>Click Here For Link To James O'Brian<James O'Brien...
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Did Johnson collude with Arbour to stop Mayors Questions?...by DaveDavies
Did Boris Johnson collude with Tory AM Tony Arbour to shut down the Mayors Questions for which he had no answers?Live questions are much harder to spin or avoid than written answers.James O’Brien...
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Please Take This TfL Judicial Review Survey.
AskPOB is conducting an independent survey, to establish driver opinion on Transport for London's regulation of the Taxi and Private Hire trades. AskPOB is an impartial third party, working in...
View ArticleVal Shawcross CBE AM, Asks Boris To Instruct TfL/The Met To...
It wasn't all bad news on Wednesday.After the Mayors Question Time resumed, Val Shawcross asked Boris if he would instruct TfL/The Met to resume temporary licenses to those drivers waiting for their...
View ArticleIs Our Politeness Being Taken For Weakness ?.........by Semtex
Since I was a kid, I have always been taught politeness and manners. Without sounding patronising, I have maintained that respectful stance ever since, and so have my four grown up children.If I bump...
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Tony Arbour Calls For Taxi Drivers To Be Sacked!... by Dave Davies.
ETony Arbour should be sacked immediately; he not only caused the disruption at City Hall by improperly ending a Public meeting but then made inflammatory and false statements and is now calling for...
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TPH Licensing Compliance and Enforcement Meeting, Monday 21st September
News was released yesterday on the BBC London news, that the current number of Private Hire driver licenses now stand at an all time high of 87,734. We were also informed that by Friday, this number...
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World Taxi Unite – A Day of Reckoning...by Paul Tavares.
Wednesday 16th September 2015 was a date upon which the London taxi industry had intended to unite as one and descend upon City Hall to put forward a number of important questions to the Mayor of...
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Council Grants Uber Licence To Operate In Sir Peter Hendy's HometownBath
Bath & North East Somerset Council has received and granted an application by the controversial private hire operator Uber, to operate across the Bath area.The application was considered in line...
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MAGICAL TAXI TOUR TO DISNEYLAND PARIS 2015..... by Sandie Goodwin
This year's Children's Magical Taxi Tour departed from Canary Wharf on 18th September 2015. The countdown ribbon cutting took place after the Big Breakfast Send Off inside the East Wintergarden; this...
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