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Striking Cork taxi drivers cause gridlock

A group of striking taxi drivers in Cork threatened to cause traffic gridlock today with a go-slow protest through the city…………

Southampton taxi drivers told to pay for cctv

A TAXI trade body in Southampton is requesting fare hikes after council bosses ordered drivers to pay for spy cameras in their cabs………..

Man jailed for attack on Gravesend taxi driver

A man has been jailed for an indeterminate period for a brutal attack on a defenceless taxi driver in Kent. Driver Gordon Bailey, of Gravesend, was left with serious facial injuries after the assault.

Discord over taxi drivers’ music rights

PLAYING a little background music during a journey with a passenger, could mean taxi drivers hitting a sour note with the law.
Cabbies in Kirklees are to be reminded that they need a licence to have recorded music in their cars or taxi offices. And this would set firms back up to £99.

Council limits number of taxis:South Tyneside

TAXI drivers in South Tyneside are unlikely to have more competition as cabbies face up to a large drop in trade.

South Tyneside Council is likely to peg taxi numbers in the borough at 239 today after hearing that customer numbers have fallen significantly in the last decade……..

Cardiff limits number of taxis on city roads

A CAP has been placed on taxi numbers in Cardiff in an attempt to combat traffic chaos and crime.

No more hackney cab licences will be issued after Cardiff council bowed to pressure from taxi drivers and the police to impose a limit.

The Law & You: Bilking (or runners)

This one might be worth printing off and carrying in the cab with you.
We have run this particular Law & You several times, but we keep getting asked to clarify the legal position, mainly because the response of the police is patchy to say the least “Itʼs a civil matter mate take them to the small claims”. The problem is that there are varying degrees of non-payment; on one hand there is the ʻgentlemanʼ and sometimes lady that opens the door and takes off like Usian Bolt……..

Student tells of taxi driver harrassment

A second year Cardiff University student claims that a taxi driver made sexually inappropriate comments towards her during a journey home after a night out.

Are black cabs fare game as city’s taxi war accelerates?

UP UNTIL last year, the fractious relationship between the Capital’s (Edinburgh) black cab trade and its private hire firms had gone relatively unnoticed by the public.

But all that changed when the city’s licensing chiefs allowed one of the largest minicab operators to set its own tariffs, potentially undercutting its hackney rivals by up to 30 per cent.

Newcastle Council take six taxi drivers off city roads

SIX taxi drivers have been suspended amid concerns about the risk they pose to the public.

Newcastle City Council has taken four of the cabbies off the roads after receiving information from police about alleged criminal activity….

The World is Going Nuts & So is The Taxi Trade!

We have ‘Pink ladies’ wanting to give free Taxi rides’ to members of their club…Now Taxi drivers are pandering to the ideas of ‘The flavour of the month local councillor’ and running around like headless chickens to do themselves out of the less than minimum wage they already get! Taxis are already cheaper than the Bus and other local transport. Ask your councillor what his mileage allowance is and you will probably find that it’s more than the average taxi driver’s Tarrif 2…..I’ll bet you he’s moved on to the next good cause before you get an answer and you will have added another couple of hours to your working day…..and as for the ‘Pink Ladies’ these suffragettes appear every few years, thinking they invented the idea of a Ladies only taxi service…Good luck with that.

Pink Ladies loses taxi licence appeal

PINK Ladies have likened the company’s battle for women’s rights to the work of suffragette Emily Pankurst. Andrea Winders, co-director of the non-profit making business, said the staff feel a little like the woman’s activist after fighting for the rights of women in an ‘archaic legal framework’………

More night time closures of town centre:Warrington

POLICE and council bosses have widened the night time no go zone in the town centre.

And taxi drivers say the new restrictions could boost business and create a safer environment for the drivers……..

Bristol airport taxi crackdown finds 22% ‘unsafe’

Nearly one in four taxis taking people to and from Bristol International Airport are not fit to be on the road, spot checks have found.
A multi-agency exercise which included councils and the police took place at the airport in January……..

Taxis at New Street station could be rationed, TooManyTaxis?

Taxi access to Birmingham’s New Street Station could be rationed in an attempt to relieve traffic chaos.

Council highways chiefs are talking to the police and Network Rail about restricting the number of black cabs able to enter the station at peak times.