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Well, of course you'd expect cabbies to be charged with road traffic offences--they're on the streets constantly, there are tens of thousands of them, there are lots and lots of extra complications that have been introduced to the streets in recent decades, and there is a lot of enforcement via CCTV. None of that means that cabbies are more likely to commit RTOs than any other driver; I'd guess they're less likely to than most other classes of drivers. (I don't share the widespread view (on cycling forums) that cabbies are bad drivers. I think they're generally pretty good. There are systemic problems, e.g. their U-turns, which are very hazardous manoeuvres for cyclists, but on the whole I think they're not as bad as is often suggested.) It's obviously a good function for a membership association to provide help with such things.
As for property, that's quite another thing. London is simply bonkers in that respect, of course. Obviously, the article is from last year, when there was not yet a hoped-for slight cooling of property prices in London, so in that respect they probably got very lucky. The city desperately needs normalisation, but in a totally mismanaged economy like ours, where property is one of the few investment areas left, a long-established organisation like the LTDA can climb up a few rungs on its own version of the property ladder. I doubt they're the worst exponent of this, but a higher asking price for the land will probably make the council's task in getting any percentage of 'affordable housing', itself a laughable fudge of what's really needed, let alone 30%, which of course is often not reached. One does slightly hear the voice of the developers in trying to use this argument to depress the sale price, perhaps to then try to provide significantly fewer 'affordable' units than they claimed to the LTDA they would have to.
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That article doesn't paint the LTDA in a great light, which is surprising as it seems to be pretty much a website for cabbies - more people coming in for help with among other things "...PCNs and road traffic offences"...!! It then suggests that that pesky requirement to try and provide some affordable housing in London (HA!) is getting in the way of making a vast profit, before going on to be part of the very problem of London property values.
Anyway maybe all that will be done via Zoom (other videoconferencing software is available) from now on, who knows.