Post Tagged with: "Taxis"

• Young Journalists report on Addison Lee protests

  Impressive little video on the Addison Lee taxi protests including speaking to the man himself, John Griffin.

   

• Is Transport for London against the London taxi?

  Yesterday hundreds of members of the RMT London Taxi Branch took to the streets in their cabs at Stratford in a go-slow protest. The cabbies are concerned that Transport for London (TfL) and the Mayor are pursuing policies that are undermining the trade. In the run-up to the Olympics they […]

   

• I had that Paddick in the back of my cab

  Liberal Democrat Mayoral candidate Brian Paddick spoke to Radio Taxis on his Mayoral vision. Our view;   There are a few things to note here. a) nice theme tune. b) Brian Paddick would have us believe he calls Taxis “little black buses”. c) he is very concerned about parking around […]

   

• Taxi drivers win victory over pedicabs

  Taxi drivers are celebrating today having won a victory over “pedicabs”, preventig a new bill coming through Parliament from allowing them to use taxi rank spaces alongside their black cab brethren. The London Local Authorities Bill does a number of things including allowing local authorities to hold premises responsible for litter […]

   

• Has Mayor Johnson betrayed taxi drivers?

  David Davies explains why cabbies may not be backing Boris.   The Mayor was forced to admit in an interview last week that when he said to the Assembly that the phone hacking scandal was ‘codswallop’  he was completely wrong. Investigations have subsequently shown that there has been significant corruption, […]

   

• Thursday’s London Links

  Over at the Anderson Shelter they think it’s time we sack Boris to support taxi drivers. There’s a new issue of Pea Soup magazine out – check it out! Myths, superheroes, Olympics and more. The Cat’s Meat Shop have some great London pics from 19th century London. Talking of the underground, […]