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Name and Shame?

While I acknowledge that attacks against taxi drivers are abhorrent and racist attacks in particular are despicable. It is always entirely wrong to abuse……..

NYC Taxi medallion sold for record $600,000

Forget the stock market. If you’re in the possession of a NYC taxi medallion, you’re sitting on a goldmine. A retiring Pakistani driver who’d been driving a cab in New York for the last 25 years sold his medallion Wednesday for a staggering $600,000 — an all-time record for such a sale. The medallion, which gives cab drivers the right to operate legally in the city, cost $30,000 when it was purchased in 1981. The new owner is a taxi fleet operator who already owns somewhere around 100 medallions………………..

Police Appeal to Taxi Drivers in Murder case

Police in Worcester, investigating the murder of a man in the city believe A taxi driver may have driven the victim and another man to a park shortly before an attack took place…………

Mr Whitehouse’s last movements are being tracked and it is now known he was out in Worcester city centre on Tuesday evening………

Anyone who saw anything suspicious in and around Gheluvelt Park on Tuesday evening or through to Wednesday morning is asked to contact police on 0300 333 3000 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555111.

Private Hire Driver Fined-Peterborough

A PRIVATE hire cab driver has been fined for illegally picking up passengers in the street, but allowed to keep his licence…..

Response to Outraged Taxi Drivers

Can anyone tell me who Alan Fidler is .And when he was voted in as secretary of the North Tyneside taxi organization & by what drivers. As I was always led to believe that when someone acts as secretary for a group of drivers as large as there is in North Tyneside……

Comment of The Week: Sacrifices

We’re in a climate of rebellion, people are rebelling against those who have taken so much, promised us everything and delivered nothing but further problems! Banks, private sector, businesses and governments, no one is safe…….

Consultation on Improving Access to Taxis

Taxis have a vital role to play in the transport system and help many people to travel to jobs, services, education and social networks. It gives me great pleasure to present this consultation, which explores how to improve access to taxis for disabled people, ensuring that they, in turn, might be able to have greater access and equality of opportunity.

Comment of The Week:Hack Rates

Thanks to 1 or 2 multi plate holders,who were more intent on justifying high bits for their cars,that the increase of 7.5% went on.

The Dangers of Hailing a Private Hire Car

The Following articles are in response to ‘hanger’ who said the following in a recent comment: “Also many ‘passengers’ know the score and are so desparate to get home or their next destination, they know they are picking up taxis at a cheaper, illegal, rate. So it’s their fault if something goes wrong. ”

New council unlikely to renew Berwick licences held by outside cabbies

DOZENS of Berwick-registered taxi drivers are unlikely to get their licences renewed by the new unitary council.
The move is likely to affect taxi drivers from outside Berwick borough rather than those who ply their trade locally.

Parking Control?? Only For taxis?

What other City in the World would allow this?A Taxi is forced to sit at the rear of a Rank because private cars are parked on the rest of it. The silver truck was parked for 3 hours!

Whitley Bay Rank Alterations:South Parade

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North Tyneside Council is to widen the pavement at the bottom of South parade in Whitley Bay in order to install a second railing at the Taxi [...]

More on Dublin De-Regulation Issues.

Following deregulation in 2000, there are now five times more cabs operating in Ireland, with the number in Dublin up by 450%. According to Kathleen Doyle, the regulator, there were 13,223 taxis in the capital at the end of November

Stand United!

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Here’s the Comment of the week and it says it all:
I’m a Newcastle PH driver and the lack of rank space is also affecting me because we [...]

18 years ago:North Shields Taxis. Stood Together

The Journal Thursday October 24 1991
Traffic chaos is set to hit a busy town centre because of a dispute between taxi drivers and Tyneside Metro chiefs,it was claimed last night.