The United Cabbies Group has arranged a meeting with Leon Daniels, Managing Director of Surface Transport at TfL.
This meeting is scheduled to take place on Weds 25th July 2012 at 10am.
The meeting is to discuss the Licensed London Taxi trade’s exclusion from the Olympic Games Lanes, and is a result of our recent demonstrations at Parliament Square and Tower Bridge, and the forthcoming demonstration planned for Friday 27th July 2012 (the day of the opening ceremony) to which the details will be announced after this meeting has been concluded.
We will let you know the outcome as soon as possible.
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Graham Rogers
July 24, 2012 at 5:14 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
At least the UCG has made representation of our plight with regard to the games lanes, more than can be said for others in our trade. Can we not hold Fridays demonstration at Hyde Park Corner no Olympic Lanes here but the hub of where the lanes meet and close to where the “Olympic Family” are staying, I am sure this would grab someones attention.
Failing all else does anyone think we have a legal claim as we are unable to continue fully with our trade and unable to earn our living, surely this is an infringement of human rights? anyway surely buses will cause more delays to the traffic flow of the Olympic Lanes than anything else with there frequent stopping.
My last point is, what about the sightseeing buses, as buses are they allowed in the Olympic Lanes, because if they are, that just about shows what they think about the best Taxi Service in the World acclaimed all over the world apart from here at home in our own capital city, thanks Boris!
Good Luck Tomorrow,
Graham.
Richard
July 24, 2012 at 5:37 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
We need to keep protesting until we have access to the games lane. I’ve spoken with quite a number of passengers in the back of my cab, and all of them want taxis to include in the games lane. London is a moving city, and it’s the cabs that will be keeping this city moving. Firstly there shouldn’t be any Olympic lanes in London due to the traffic already on the roads, secondly the size of the roads are too small to divide them into olympic lanes. These things needed to be discussed by TFL with the taxi trade before even talking about games lanes. We dont need no games lane in London to start the games. This is a very foolish idea. The Olympic lanes will only increase traffic and bring London to a stop. And this will be called Totally Failing London by Transport For London.
DB
July 24, 2012 at 8:57 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Best of luck with the meeting
Paul
July 24, 2012 at 9:43 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
A message to the knockers and doubters:
You might have entered into a tfl gagging order called engagement policy but we haven’t,we still have freedom of speech, so while you sit back in your comfy offices on god knows how much a year for keeping your mouths shut….just leave the real work to us,the UCG(and RMT)!
greenbadgejohn
July 25, 2012 at 2:02 am (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Having been to the last two protests, it seems very obvious there is a strong feeling that we are being shafted by the powers that be, it is so sad that we even have to disrupt or protest the roads as a militant organisation to get what should have been granted right at the outset of the organisational planning.
Its is estimated that there is huge interest towards these games from Athletes to the press and of course the general public, but reality is showing that the sponsors who have contributed not much more than 10 % of the revenue (and the british people 90%) are actually clawing in huge dividends in Advertising revenues and are receiving big concessions in ticketing and merchandising priorities which allows them to be ferried to and from in the designated Olympic lanes as well, and the whole thing has a very sordid malevolence to it, but when you see the government officials with their noses deep in the troughs too it is hardly very surprising.
I am no mystic meg, but I knew the day it was announced that we were hosting the games it would cost us all financially, and I am being proven correct now as the worse July I have seen in over 20 Years, as it is clear that the cake has been cut into pieces to suit the power’s that decide and right from the outset of ticket distributions… 99% of british people will be watching the olympic’s on the telly, … that being the case it could have been staged anywhere in the world as only the privileged will get to have a ticket, and most of those will go cattle class on the tube, and the righteous will fly by in these olympic lanes!, So lets keep up the fight for our rights… the consecutive world number ones should’nt let it go without the fight… they know we are right and so do I and all that are protesting the point …Keep It Up!
green badge john
July 25, 2012 at 1:53 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Leon Daniels (TFL) has the bare faced cheek to say on the one hand that Our Demonstrations are attended by a “Tiny Minority” of taxi drivers whose views do not represent those of the “Vast Majority” of Londons taxi drivers, when it is Patently Obvious that ALL of London’s Taxi Drivers will hugely benefit from the Ability to Use the Olympic Lanes for the transportation of “London’s public” (who will see substantially reduced fares) during the games, I dare you to find a single London Taxi Driver That Tells you he will not, so what hole is he talking from?…. I think we can all guess!
Al
July 25, 2012 at 7:30 pm (UTC 1) Link to this comment
I agree with all the above comments.I have just emailed the LTDA being a member for many years and informed them that they are a gnats cock from losing my membership. A diary and badge holder at Christmas is NOT what I pay my subs for..
with regards to the ongoing ORN problem,I can only level that great ol` footie chant at them….”It`s all gone quiet over there”..
good luck with the meet fellas..I`ve been on the last two drive ins and will be on the next one if we have to..