
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.
A year like no other by AndyCabb
2015, a year unprecedented in Taxi trade politics. I would like to share my experiences of the last year, my thoughts and how the situation we all find ourselves in has affected me. I’d like to start in July, when I attended Parliament along with many other drivers...
London black taxi driver cleared of ramming cyclist with car
Not guilty: Daniel Wentworth Central News A black cab driver has been cleared by a jury at the Old Bailey of deliberately ramming his car into a cyclist in an act of road rage. Daniel Wentworth, 52, had been accused of using the taxi “as a weapon” to knock James...
Uber drivers ‘urinating in gardens, littering, and waking residents at 5.30am’ in residential streets near Heathrow Airport
Dangerous: residents have complained that the cars are narrowing the road Amir Patwa Residents of a quiet suburban street have claimed that Uber drivers waiting to collect passengers from Heathrow Airport are making their lives a misery. People living in Oaks Road in...
A Level Playing Field!…Be Careful What You Wish For.
IS THIS THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME? Local private hire drivers in Belfast are set to sit down with the Environment Committee at Stormont today (Thursday) to state their case as they call for political support for proposals to reshape the taxi industry. In Belfast...
Uber driver still trying to get man home from New Year’s Eve party
AN UBER driver has still not managed to complete a journey which began in the early hours of 2016. London-based 38-year-old driver Wayne Hayes said: “I’m not fully certain where ‘Richmond Road’ is but it’s definitely getting closer. “It’s been almost four days now,...
Councillor says 10 minute parking ‘grace’ at St Pancras puts public in danger and is causing chaos…by Jim Thomas.
Back in August 2015, Councillor Sian Berry supported the United Cabbies Group's call on Camden Council to use terrorism clauses in legislation to enforce its two minute waiting period restriction for drop-offs at St Pancras station. In a dossier submitted to the...
Labour’s Sadiq Khan says he’ll pedestrianise Parliament Square if he becomes Mayor of London
Plans to take motor traffic out of the square were scrapped by Boris Johnson Traffic in Parliament Square Getty Images The square outside the House of Parliament should be pedestrianised so it can be enjoyed by all, Labour’s candidate for Mayor of London has said....
We Need The Met To Record Evidence Identifying Taxis As A Separate Mode Of Transport To PHV’s
This should not be recorded as a Taxi and Private Hire incident? This petition is to request the Metropolitan Police Service (MET) record evidence that identifies Taxis as a separate mode of transport to PHV's. The (Metropolitan) Borough Councils and Transport for...
Taxi And Private Hire Regulations….What Is It The Media Doesn’t Understand?… By Jim Thomas
What exactly is it that the media can't see or understand about Taxi and Private Hire regulation? Has this document become obsolete? We already have sufficient legislation called the Private Hire Vehicles act 1998 Uber come along and amazingly, even though they don't...
London taxi trade: the Knowledge, the Conservatives and the future
A report by one of the capital’s Tory transport experts argues that lighter regulation and enabling reform would help traditional black cabs to survive London’s black cab drivers deliver Christmas presents to homeless people earlier this month. Photograph: See...
Chip and pin revolution on the cards in city taxis
TAXI passengers will be able to pay for fares using chip and pin machines from today in a first for Glasgow. Glasgow Taxis Ltd is gearing up for the 2014 Commonwealth Games with the introduction of credit and debit card payment machines in vehicles. The black taxi...
Passengers flee as Norwich taxi bursts into flames
The taxi on fire in Unthank Road, tweeted by Ben Philips A quick-thinking driver pulled over his taxi moments before it burst into flames on a city street tonight. ABC Taxis driver Scott Squires noticed smoke coming from behind the dashboard of his Mercedes minibus...
M25 speed cameras to be switched on in Surrey
No speeding: Police are taking control of M25 cameras Speed cameras on the M25 have not been operating since their installation in 2009, but all that is due to end in Surrey this summer. The cameras, already installed on the motorway and with warning signs aplenty,...
Taxi drivers protest outside Dáil over proposed changes
Taxi drivers are protesting outside the Dáil this afternoon over changes to the sector being considered by the Government. Around 100 taxis from the capital will gather around Kildare Street from 1.30pm to highlight the association’s concerns regarding a number of...
Bogus taxi drivers targeted in Birmingham
Inside Out joins the police and Birmingham City Council’s taxi enforcement team looking for unlicensed drivers, known as ”plyers” in a clampdown on bogus cabs. From BBC West Midlands Click here to read on the BBC News website with video Only hackney drivers can...
Cabbies mad about airport waiting
Electric taxi drivers who have been forced to the back of queue say they may go back to LPG cabs Drivers Chan Chi-hung (left) and Ng Yeuk-hon point at a notice that tells them to wait at the back of the queue. Photo: Edward Wong Drivers of electric taxis said they...

Breaking News : Uber, In A Race With Lyft, Has Confidentially Filed To Go Public In 2019.
* Uber has confidentially filed paperwork to hold its long-awaited IPO next year, reports the Wall Street Journal. * This comes a day after word got out that Lyft, the company's perennial rival in car-hailing services, made its own IPO filing. * Uber was last...
Minicab firm challenges the rude reign of Paris taxi drivers
Taxi wars have erupted in Paris as the monopoly long enjoyed by the French capital's notoriously protectionist cabbies is being challenged by a new breed of bookable minicabs. Parisian taxi drivers get a bad press for being rude, playing loud music, hardly ever...
Taxi crash tourist leaves hospital
Sian Green is set to return to the UK in the next few days according to a family spokesman and is said to be looking forward to getting back to normal. Miss Green, 24, from Leicester, was involved in an accident while holidaying with her best friend in New York. "Her...
Coventry taxi maker LTI sold to Chinese firm Geely for £11.4m
The black taxi manufacturer LTI has been sold for £11.4m to the Chinese car manufacturer Geely. The company has acquired the “business and the principal assets” of Manganese Bronze Holdings (MBH), the manufacturer of the London cabs. LTI in Coventry went into...
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