According to the Sunday Times, the minicab instant hail app Uber, has abandoned its plan to expand into at least nine cities and towns around Britain.
Uber are also in danger of losing their licence in Brighton, which expires next month...after breaking promises to use only local drivers and vehicles. But then that's their philosophy is, "it's easier to ask forgiveness than to ask for permission".
Uber is currently battling big time for survival in the capital following the decision by TfL to refuse to renew their operators licence.
However, the company are continuing to accept bookings, pending the appeal, lodged at Westminster Magistrates court on Friday....So we can expect UberRape and sexual assaults to continue for a while yet!!!
Uber have also decided to withdraw applications for operating licences in Oxford, Hull, Bournemouth, Gateshead, North Tyneside, South Tyneside and Sandwell in the West Midlands.
The Sunday times article stated:
The decision was made after Uber was asked a series of questions about its business drawn up by the Local Government Association.
The questions are designed to challenge the company’s claim that it is merely an agent that “does not provide transportation services” and simply operates an app connecting “independent contractors” with passengers.
The questions include: “If Uber has no involvement in the contract between the customer and the driver of the vehicle, who accepts the booking?
(If the drivers accepts the bookings, then the app is illegal)
If Uber accepts the booking, how does it have no involvement in the contract between the customer and the driver?”
The Article went on to say:
Oxford city council said Uber’s application had lapsed after it had failed to provide “vital details” of how its service would operate. The other councils confirmed that Uber had withdrawn.
The company has been refused a licence in Reading and told it will not be granted one in Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
However, it continues to serve some of the areas using cars it sends in from other places where it does hold a licence.
Source : Sunday Times
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Funny, is it just me, or have you noticed too, that virtually all the TV/Radio news and national media have missed off the bit about the 50% rise last year in UberRape and Uber sexual assaults....13,000 Fake Uber driver DBS criminal record certificates....the fake Uber medicals and topographical test's???
TfL knew for over nine months, yet took no action!!!
It's suddenly become all about a mythical 40,000 self-employed drivers losing their jobs.
These are self-employed drivers, that will remain licensed and can carry on working for any one of the other 2,500 private hire operators currently licensed by TfL. No ones lost their job....
TfL have said Uber are not fit and proper to hold an operators licence...Were the issues above not enough to get Uber closed down for good???
I wonder how much of the investors money it took to get all the news editors to drop the UberRape and fake criminal record checks from their stories ???
Andrew Boff (conservative assembly member) says, Uber's CEO came to London and apologised and that now the Mayor and TfL should do a u-turn.
Does Andrew Boff believe that rape against women is fare game to an Uber driver ?
Are our wives, daughters, sisters, mothers, little more than collateral damage by Mr Boff?
Would Andrew Boff like to meet with the UberRape and sexual attack victims...the ones who's lives, and the lives of their families have been shattered by these attacks....and let him explain to them why they should accept an apology from Dara Khosrowshahi.
Many of these rapes and sexual assaults could have been prevented if only TfL management had insisted Uber abide by the legislation plus had the appropriate genuine DBS certificates.
Almost all gone....but not forgotten
Perhaps the victims of the sex attacks should be looking towards one of these aggressive PPI lawyers to put together a 'no win no fee' class action, against TfL's directors and managers who swept scandal after scandal under the carpet over the last 5 years.
How many rapes and sexual assaults could have been avoided if TfL had 'done the job we pay them to do' and acted accordingly, when the fake DBS certificates first came to light back in January?
Helen Chapman gave assurances that all Uber drivers had the same enhanced DBS checks as Taxi drivers.....Helen Chapman lied.
2 comments:
It's plain to see Andrew Boff is Uber's man at Tfl,when Uber got him onboard it must have been easy,after all they would have seen a typical Tory that would sell his gran for a fiver & would jump through hoop's to follow the money.
Don't forget inflation colin, selling his gran would net him a tenner now!
Poles would never allow any cash to slip by without taking their %.
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