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@Velocio
Anyhow, what's our position on this? Clearly TfL are powerless, and the SMIDSY thing combined with the bus lane thing is totally indefensible.
How about these:
1) Personally boycott Addison Lee.
2) Petition any of our employers who use Addison Lee to consider not doing so, and refuse use of Addison Lee if given to us (seeking to either cycle instead or go by black cab and put it in an expenses claim).
3) Take primary position in bus lanes and ride slower when Addison Lee cars are around (ensuring your safety first and foremost).
As in... I'm going to send out an email to the mailing list for some other stuff, and feel that this is something that we should act collectively over.
Cyclists are also Addison Lee customers, and seemingly the only thing that he cares about is money. If we act collectively to hurt his pocket a little (withdrawal of business via the boycott and work petition, and delaying fixed price journeys and forcing them to get out of the bus lane by a primary position go-slow)... then he might comprehend that whilst TfL has no ability to create a change of heart, that perhaps the raw economics caused by upsetting cyclists could do.
There are surely enough of us, on LFGSS, in the LCC, on Ride.cc and YACF and various other websites, that we could reach a very substantial number of cyclists in London and actually do this... actually hurt his pocket, which is the only thing he cares about.