This is the real reason, they won't give us suitable ranking facilities. Customers are being charged as much as £155 for a £40 Taxi ride.
Tue 6 May 2014
Cabbies plan Shard protest
The opening of a new hotel at the Shard today is to be marked by a protest by taxi drivers.
The Cab section of Unite the Union says Transport for London is refusing to put a taxi rank near to the building's entrance on St Thomas Street.
The union claims Boris Johnson is not giving taxi services enough consideration as part of the capital's transport network.
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Editorial Comment:
Mayor Boris insults London's Iconic Taxi Trade:
After insulting the whole of London's Taxi trade by referring to Uber cars as Uber Taxis, on LBC radio, Boris made his way with Seb Coe, to the opening ceremony at the Shard.
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Fiona Bruce compered the opening ceremony for the Shangri-La hotel at the Shard this morning.
Tfl statement re: The demo
TfL not happy at trades demonstration and seem to have missed the point.
Garrett Emmerson, TfL’s Chief Operating Officer for Surface Transport, said: “We are disappointed that some taxi drivers intend to stage a demonstration today.
We are aware of the taxis trade’s desire to have a rank closer to The Shard and have recently reached an agreement with the owners of
The Shard that will enable a single taxi to rank directly outside the building. In addition a ‘taxi required’ light has been installed enabling The Shard’s concierge to signal taxi drivers on the nearby St Thomas Street rank to come forward and collect passengers.
“In the longer term we are working to provide a full taxi rank, and are seeking to identify a suitable, safe location that is convenient for both taxi drivers and their passengers.
“There is no need to stage a demonstration and doing so will only disrupt the travelling public, the very people that the taxi trade are supposed to serve.
“I would urge taxi drivers not to take part in this protest and instead use their unique knowledge and skills to help keep London moving.”
Knowledge boys and girls, on their way to join Demo at the Shard.
TFL NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE.
4 comments:
Well it seems as ever TfL are giving us F**K All, so after today, what next?
Begs the question why wasn't the demo scheduled to take place at the same time the media and Mayor were there?
A massive missed opportunity; the whole point of a demo is to get as much media coverage as possible.
LCDC complete hypocrites, they are only moaning because tfl disbanded the UTG and left them high and dry.
Which they deserved for selling the taxi trade down the river.
TFL has a load of police where were they today
did they not know it was on the news.
The are was stuck with traffic
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