Taxis - Black Cabs, Uber, Illegal Cabbies

Fuck cabbies.

Fuck Addison Lee and fuck uber too.

They do and if they want to protest via an expensive legal case against uber they have the right to pay for it too.

Fuck cabbies, fuck Addison Lee and fuck Uber too.

ftfy

All taxi/PH passenger injuries up 29% last year, increase in PH was only 20%. Cycling collisions fell by 9%. Cycling's getting safer, taxi drivers injure more than two PASSENGERS every day. That's just inside the cab.

More reasons to never, ever use Uber:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/12/why-everyone-hates-uber-seven-step-playbook

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/13/data-watchdog-no-10-cameron-uber-correspondence-regulation

The cabbies reckon this is an Evening Standard stitch-up, not a word about this has appeared in The Standard whose editor gets paid £650k a year as advisor to a firm with a half billion pound Uber stake. It's all very murky.

This will be interesting:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/court-battle-inevitable-over-tfl-decision-on-uber-licence-a3633631.html

Private Eye often covers the closeness between Uber and our Govt, Osborne is part of that.
http://fortune.com/2017/03/28/david-cameron-uber-lobbying/

Had a black cab overtake me leaving centimeters to spare this morning. When I raised this point to him he 'not in so many words' said that he'd done it on purpose.....

It is annoying when people think they can deliberately put your life in danger and not have any responsibility.

Rant over.

I wish there was a way both could lose.

A first announcement--probably still a drop in the ocean for Uber given their venture capital backing, but one expects they would argue 'but we don't have any cars, our drivers have one each'. I'm sure TfL will have spotted that potential loophole and closed it. :)

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/uber-licensing-costs-in-london-to-rise-from-3000-to-3m-in-next-five-years-a3637866.html

TFL: Uber lic. not renewed.

http://news.sky.com/story/transport-for-london-will-not-renew-ubers-licence-11047580

taxi for uber .... from the gruniad

Wow. Knuckle dragging cabbies manage to keep us in the dark ages. Amazing they got a long licence for nothing now they are not fit.. madness

Worth noting they can continue to operate after 30th September whilst the appeal is in progress.

I'm sure that a lot of those requirements will be "met" if Uber end up paying closer to the £3m that TfL would like to get from them (see link two above).

Seems like a win for Uber's competitors, i.e. Addison Lee/minicabs, not black cabs, who couldn't compete if they tried. I don't see drivers selling the Prius yet.

Why should one sector of the commercial transportation system be subject to regulations and the rule of law, whilst another one isn't and does everything it can to evade the law?

I'm sure that a lot of those requirements will be "met" if Uber end up paying closer to the £3m that TfL would like to get from them (see link two above).

It almost sounds like a shakedown

They've had 4 months warning on this (the original license ran out in May and they've been on an extension).

I guess the teams of lawyers are seeing who blinks first.

Ha. Good one.

The LDTA always conjurers up the image of black cabs to me and the odd brown bag.

40,000 criminals about to lose their jobs.

I'd like to know what these issues which have potential public safety and security implications are - this seems to be more about TfL trying to screw as much cash as possible out of Uber as possible.

Presuming they can come to an agreement what will TfL spend those millions of pounds on? I'd like to think improvements which actually benefit Londoners but unfortunately I suspect it will be more desk jockeys on TfL's famously comfortable salaries enjoying work life balance that most of us can only dream of...

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Every uber driver I have used has been polite, a decent driver and happy with their lot. Most black cab drivers have been angry aggressive racist cunts. I know which group I'd rather have removed from London's roads.

I'd like to know what these issues which have potential public safety and security implications are - this seems to be more about TfL trying to screw as much cash as possible out of Uber as possible.

(From elsewhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15310969) things like:-

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Failure to report serious crimes and allowing the driver to continue driving for Uber:

• https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/13/uber-failing-to-report-sex-attacks-by-drivers-says-met-police
  
• http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/uber-drivers-accused-of-32-rapes-and-sex-attacks-on-london-passengers-a7037926.html
  
  

Failure to properly check medical certifications:

• https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1897962/investigation-reveals-dodgy-gps-getting-cash-to-help-minicab-and-uber-drivers-fake-medical-test-over-fitness-to-drive/
  
  

Failure to follow up DBS (criminal records) checks (can't find an article about that one).

Use of Greyball to dodge regulators checking on the service:

• https://www.ft.com/content/2ab3c0e8-0076-11e7-96f8-3700c5664d30 (not specific to London but they're being sued all over the place for it)
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this seems to be more about TfL trying to screw as much cash as possible out of Uber as possible.

... which seems a reasonable opening position to me given Uber's size and financial (and thus legal) resources.