Sadiq Khan Refuses To Meet Peer Of The Realm, In Regards To The "Where Buses Go, Taxis Go" Campaign.

 

Many drivers are asking the same question :

If the ITA have won their/our objectives, that is Tooley Street/Duke Street Hill access and a year's delay on Tottenham Court Road, then why are drivers still being asked to protest once a week in Parliament Square?

The protests will continue because they haven't achieved everything they were initially set up to deal with. 

We want it in legislation that where buses go, Taxi go. 

But it's not going to be easily achieved under the present Mayor. Lenny Etheridge spoke to Lord Palmer in the Square yesterday, who had this to say:

"I've written to Sadiq Khan three times hoping to meet on behalf of the protesting Taxi drivers and on each occasion the Mayor has refused to reply or even acknowledge my letters.

Sadiq Khan snubbing a peer of the realm not only breeches protocol, it's down right rude.

TAXI LEAKS EXTRA BIT 

Why We a Will Continue With Protests:

Look at Taxi access from Jamaica Road, westbound onto Tooley Street, via the bus lane which alleviates the stress put on side streets in he surrounding area. 

This is what should be happening on Theobald's Road onto Vernon Place Bloomsbury. Taxis wishing to access Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road, would be taken out of the Procter Street High Holborn,  Earnshaw street chaos. Plus Taxis coming down Bloomsbury Street should also be able to make the turn right turn along with Buses onto New Oxford Street. 

Another pinch point could be avoided at the bottom of the Haymarket the 10 foot section bus only access to Cockspur Street, should also be open to Taxis. 

All these options would speed up passenger journeys and  alleviate local traffic in this area. 

 

Yesterday's protest saw an increase in numbers as the police stopped local traffic using the inside lane on Whitehall. But we still need bigger numbers. If Ten thousand cabbies had turned up on a regular basis, we would not be going into a 15th week, we would all be working now using the same road space as buses. 

It's pure apathy that's causing this to drag on. 

So the fight goes on, three hours, one day a week, every week.....come along and join your colleagues fighting for your right to use these streets.

       

TAXI LEAKS PS...

It didn't go unnoticed that yesterday, certain Dial A Cab drivers (now owned by ComCab) tried to scupper the protests by getting messages put out, that the protest had been called off. 

These are our own colleagues, and this behaviour is atrocious. 

In future, if any protest is to be cancelled it will be announced by the ITA, on all social media platforms and not just a radio circuit terminal.