Welcome to
Taxi News
the premier taxi trade news from around the world.
Alleged Uber Driver Arrested By Heavily Armed Officers In Busy High Street
While the mainstream media are busy this morning publishing an altercation between a cyclist and a Taxi driver from yesterday morning.... the bigger, more interesting story seems to have been omitted from their rags. Yesterday, in broad daylight, armed police stopped...
Uber Privately Expecting TfL Application To Result In Another Short-Term Licence
Uber Technologies is facing an uphill struggle to secure a long-term licence from London's transport regulator little more than a year after it was forced to go to court to overturn an outright ban. Uber, the world's best-known ride-hailing service, is privately...
Baby Girl Delivered By Husband In Back Of London Black Cab
A mother gave birth in the back of a black cab as it raced along the Albert Embankment to take her to hospital with her city broker husband delivering their daughter on the back seat. Gemma and Julian Le Witt, 36, welcomed their baby Sienna in the ride to St Thomas’...
In Just 19 Years, TfL Have Taken The Gold Standard Taxi Service, To The Brink Of Destruction
Three years after the English Civil War, in 1654 Oliver Cromwell set up the Fellowship of Master Hackney Carriages by Act of Parliament, and taxi driving became a profession. This makes the licensed taxi trade the oldest regulated public transport system in the...
The Albany Taxi Charity Outing to Margate
Monday 1st July saw The Albany Taxi Charity Fund return to the seaside town of Margate for its second outing of 2019. This year Taxis (which can be seen on the MiramarSpeedCircuit website) left from various locations with the vast majority meeting at a school in...
A new anthem for London & the cab trade as “We Are London” by The Knowledge hits the streets
The Knowledge, a new band comprising of two-thirds London cabbies, has released their first single “We Are London”. Initially launched via a lively YouTube video, it will be available for full download/streaming from the usual sources from 19 July. The anthemic song,...
Help The ITA Email Every MP In The House Of Commons
*ATTENTION* Dear Taxi Drivers, this is something you can all help with: We have a request to ask you all, it will take a few minutes of your time, we have written an email template generator that will allow us to get the reasons why the ITA are calling protests that...
Female Met Officer Who Tried To Prosecute Taxi Driver With Questionable Evidence. Case Dismissed.
We reported last year that the police were harassing drivers at Kings Cross Taxi Rank. Undercover officers were using body worn cameras to film drivers touching there mobiles while stationary on the rank. We now have a case bought to court where an undercover female...
TfL Announce Extension To Tottenham Court Road Scheme Covering New Oxford Street, Bloomsbury And Holborn
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any crazier at Camden, with the aftermath of destruction, congestion and added pollution in Fitzrovia and Midland Road.... it appears the lunatics have completely taken over the asylum.Camden have publish plans to remove the...
On Demand Bus Services And New Vito Euro6 Minicabs (Project Horizon In Full Flow) by Sean Stockings
Private buses be like… It is quite astonishing to think that whilst TFL is cutting buses in aparticular borough (Sutton) it is simultaneously lobbying and consulting for Viavan a private company backed by Mercedes Daimler group who are worth Billions. Routes 410 , 433...
TfL Announce Extension To Tottenham Court Road Scheme Covering New Oxford Street, Bloomsbury And Holborn
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any crazier at Camden, with the aftermath of destruction, congestion and added pollution in Fitzrovia and Midland Road.... it appears the lunatics have completely taken over the asylum.Camden have publish plans to remove the...
The State Of The London Taxi Trade…by Grant Davis And Michael Glassman
After the news that new euro6 Diesel engines are currently being manufactured that are producing zero Nox....Grant Davis pleads with the GLA and TfL to allow us to buy these Euro6 diesels, the ones authorised by TfL for use by Addison Lee and other private hire...