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Plan for London's first underground hotel rejected
Plans for London’s first underground hotel, 50ft below the surface with windowless rooms, have been rejected by councillors who warned it would be a “minus-five star” destination.Criterion Capital...
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Minicab driver targeted in horrific attack, ambushed in Plumstead bywaiting...
A minicab driver was sent on a back-and-forth journey through south London before being ambushed by a gang of thugs assembled by his passenger. Police said the driver and the passenger became embroiled...
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Warning : New Chip & Pin and Contactless Requirements, To Be AnnouncedIn...
Over the past few months, Taxi Leaks has posted a series of articles regarding chip and pin facilities available from companies such as Cab:App, iZettle and more recently PayPal. In the interest of...
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Cabbie's Wife's Group, Showing Trade Orgs The Way To Go.
A campaign group set up by the wife of a taxi driver will this week mount a bid to force Transport for London (TfL) to put the brakes on Uber, the app which has recruited thousands of drivers and...
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Rickshaw rider JAILED as Westminster cracks down on ‘anti-socialmenace’.
Juris Briedis has been sentenced to six months in prison for riding a pedicab in Westminster (Photo: Metropolitan Police)A rickshaw or ‘pedicab’ rider has been sentenced to 24 weeks in prison after he...
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The Time Has Come For Every Taxi Driver To Step Forward And ShowSupport For...
As you may have heard "Action For Cabbies" has been set up by #SaveTaxi to raise awareness and funds for the campaign to seek a Judicial Review against TFL to have Ubers operating licence in London...
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Taxi Regulator Responds Over Cab Company Bankruptcy
San Francisco’s largest taxi company (Yellow Cabs) may soon declare bankruptcy. Yellow Cab Co-Op’s financial move has set off alarms across the industry, The City’s taxi regulator is finally weighing...
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Uber Can't Operate Under New Regulation Safeguards In Belfast.
Global minicab operator Uber has said it would have to "re-evaluate its business" in Belfast if new laws on taxi regulation were to be introduced.Apparently if Uber are forced to work within the...
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Letter To Editor : Response To PH Regulation Review Question 2... ByWill...
Jim please find below, part of my response to the Private Hire consultation.PRIVATE HIRE OPERATORS2. Do you agree with our proposal for a time delay between journey booking and commencement?NoIf you...
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Power to the people of Islington, after Caledonian Road Station closureis...
Power to the people of Islington.It seems TfL have bottled it, after being threatened with legal action.There always was a simple solution...but as we all know, TfL don't do simple...
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Hacked Uber accounts worth more than stolen credit cards.
Cybercriminals don't care that much about your credit card number anymore. Uber, PayPal and even Netflix accounts have become much more valuable to criminals, as evidenced by the price these stolen...
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As We Predicted...It Was Always An Uber Smokescreen. TfL Press ReleaseOn New...
TfL press release…Following a review of private hire regulations in London, including a hugely successful public consultation that attracted over 16,000 responses, Transport for London (TfL) has today...
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Letters To Editor : Regarding TfL's PH Regulation Press Announcement.
Hi James I have a few questions I would like to express as a letter to the editor of Taxi leaks.Tfl Questions:In your press statement yesterday, you state TfL proposes to take forward 13 of the...
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Surprise Surprise...by I'm Spartacus.
Watch the Mayors Question Time From Yesterday : >Click Link<Surely no one expected TfL to do anything truly meaningful with the PH regs?Did you really expect Boris (f**k off and die)Johnson to...
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LTC Black Cabs Not Unique, High Court Rules, Paving Way For MetroCab
A high court judge has ruled that one of London’s most famous sights, the black cab, is not that unique after all, concluding that they are “devoid of inherent distinctive character”.Mr Justice Arnold...
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Perhaps We Should Call For Our Licensing Authority To Be Dissolved OrReplaced?
AUDIT CALLS FOR TAXICAB AUTHORITY BE DISSOLVED OR REPLACEDCARSON CITY — State auditors released a scathing report Tuesday on the Taxicab Authority that regulates the industry in Southern Nevada,...
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Uber gets a taxi brokerage licence despite controversy over ride-sharing
The city says Uber Canada is now operating as a legal taxi brokerage in Toronto despite continuing to illegally connect riders to unlicensed drivers.On Friday morning, Uber announced it had received...
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Assembly Member Valerie Shawcross Calls into Question, George OsborneMotives...
Boris doesn't deny at MQT, when asked that he was directly and personally lobbied by George Osborne in support of Uber. How does that work ? - what is a Chancellor of the UK Exchequer doing lobbying...
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Trouble Brews, As Taxis Confront Uber Picking Up At Airport.
On Thursday, Uber started transporting passengers from LAX, cutting into taxi drivers’ opportunities and prompting taxi drivers to slam the ride-sharing company for lax security procedures.William...
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A40 Cash Cow Speed Trap Nets £100,000 A Month
The new average speed cameras on the A40, are raking in almost £100,000 per month from drivers on one of the capital’s busiest roads.The “cheat-proof” traps have been placed at 32 sites on an11-mile...
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