TfL refuse to talk with "aggressive" London management!
The emergency summit between the bosses of Uber and Transport for London is unlikely to result in an immediate breakthrough leading to a restoration of the cab hailing app’s licence, sources said today.
Uber chief executive’s Dara Khosrowshahi meeting with London Transport Commissioner Mike Brown will start a “hopefully constructive dialogue” that will help both sides understand each other’s position, according to figures close to the company.
Mr Khosrowshahi flew into London for today’s crunch talks following TfL’s bombshell decision to strip Uber of its licence to operate in the capital at the end of September.
No details have been revealed of the timing or location of the meeting because of its extreme sensitivity.
SOUNDS LIKE AN ADMISSION OF GUILT?
Industry watchers said it was indication of how high the stakes are in London that the Uber boss was prepared to quit dealing with a boardroom battle in San Francisco and fly half way round the world in a bid to patch up relation with TfL.
The Uber board is today expected to vote on reforms that could limit the power of former chief executive Travis Kalanick. Mr Kalanick, who is still one of the firm’s biggest shareholders, appointed two new directors in a surprise move on Friday.
The meeting comes the day after the tech giant’s UK boss Jo Bertram quit the company after four years.
TfL regulators ruled last month that Uber was not a “fit and proper” company to hold an operating licence citing concerns about how it carries out backgrond checks on drivers and how it reports serious criminal offences.
However, its 40,000 London drivers have been allowed to continue working pending an appeal of the decision.
Mayor Sadiq Khan authorised the “peace talks” after Mr Khosrowshahi issued a public apology in a letter in the Evening Standard. The letter said that “while Uber has revolutionised the way people move around in cities around the world, its equally true that we’ve got things wrong along the way.”
SAYS THE STANDARD...
TAXI LEAKS EXTRA BITs :
DOESN'T LOOK LIKE THEY'RE NOT GETTING RELICENSED TO US!!!
8 comments:
Of course they have had constructive talks. It's all rigged and crooked. Expose everything and get rid of TFL.
Yes. It does look very much like they will get re licenced. It's a real load of bollocks. If they say all should be on a level playing field to the same high standards then they should apply the same knowledge test to private hire and black cabs and the same vehicle. It's a complete corruption and I see taxi drivers actually rioting on this, like the poll tax riots. What happens when the governing bodies are wrong and corrupt is rebellion and riots.
I like the bit at the end taxi app driven by Knolwedge but I’ve been to old that Knolwedge schools are struggling big time to lack of students this is a big concern less and less people are signings up we have some big players out there now time to wake up think I’m talking rubbish wait and see who’s the next school to close
UCG are hailing this as a breakthrough.A UCG committee member is informing members that the LTDA will step up to the plate with a judicial revue if Uber retains their license. If that's not an endorsement by the UCG to join the LTDA, I don't know what is!
I believe it’s a sign that the once militant Ucg
have been swallowed up and silenced by the LTDA
This is a long ball game, they will get relicensed when it suits, certain individuals will be made an example of and political issues will be addressed.
Unfortunately I cannot agree with anon 8.51 wholesale rioting will not happen there would not be enough numbers to make a sustained impact. I believe the war of attrition that has been waged over the last few years between TFL and the black cab trade is coming into sharper focus with the next issue potentially being a shorter availability of cabs. As of January with choice restricted to one vehicle at a higher cost older cabs at age limit could be coming off at a dis proportionate rate to new cabs going on,thus altering rental rates, older drivers with cabs with short shelf life may retire and if knowledge numbers keep reducing what have you got left.
Makes it easy to change laws to suit fleets become franchises and drivers become employees. The summary made by DDD was compelling reading.
Destruction by design, I ran this on here before, Uber is a symptom NOT the disease, the Swiss cheese that is the PH regulations is constructed so that we fade away. TfL want to deal with corporates not stroppy individuals like us.
Here’s an example, they permit PH to cross border and state they can’t do anything (they can, just introduce an intended use condition), yet if a YB takes an App job 10 yards outside their sector TfL will nick them! Forget Brighton, that’s an issue here.
As for who will do what when (not if) Uber get licensed (my monies on a 18 month one), see what happens, can’t be long before TfL close the KoL and sub it out to xxxx for the twilight years.
If PFH isn’t defined and eHailing solely our preserve, what’s left?
The new electric cab might as well have been an electric chair, 70K in an adverse and worsening trading environment?
Let’s not go quietly though, eh?
in a nutshell - WE'RE FINISHED
and we've not even gone-down FIGHTING
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