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To All those Geordies that came to London , thanks for all the business over the weekend , great customers . Thanks again , from Londons Taxi drivers .
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My little contribution to the day , taking this Gentleman home to Feltham . 🇬🇧
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@theJeremyVine
Remember this tweet . You will regret campaigning for e-scooters . They will cause cyclists in bike Lanes more problems than anything else .
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Like him or not , there is lots of nonsense being circulated to discredit
@MikeyCycling
, don’t be fooled by it .
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Dear fellow drivers, we must be doing something right if our opposition need to go on the attack with PR/ research / press nonsense. Keep covering all work , accept all payments, we are winning . 🥊
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As another one of ours leaves us through suicide, always try and talk to someone . Don’t try and cope with financial, health or mental health issues alone . R.I.P
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Although getting a bit colder , please turn engines off on ranks , pollution effects all of us and is being actively enforced with fixed penalties in Westminster particularly .
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121 Diesel cabs off the road this week alone and 35 new electric cabs licensed . The trade is doing its bit , we deserve access to New restrictions, including bus gates and LTN’s . Going green with nowhere left to drive .
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To the minority of cab drivers that think because it is a bit busier they can get upto old tricks of brooming and cash only etc , you are the
#Enemywithin
and your level of shortsightedness and sheer stupidity is truly unbelievable.
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@CrimeLdn
One of the many things us Cabbies have to put up with on a daily basis . Btw , hope the kid is ok and lesson is learned .
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411 New private Hire Licenses issued in a single week in London . The Taxi trade will never take seriously any lectures about Air pollution, congestion or the climate emergency until this issue is tackled . They are the traffic .
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Really sad to hear that Alf Townsend is seriously ill . Thoughts and prayers go out to him and his family .
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10,121 additional private Hire vehicles on the streets of London in the last 12 months , more traffic and pollution , worlds most congested city . Let’s close more roads and license more minicabs , that’ll fix it !
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Tin hat time . Why wouldn’t you want cleaner air and support the ULEZ extension? We all know someone with Asthma or other respiratory illnesses? It’s only a small number of vehicles that don’t meet emission standards. NB more funds should be available for vans etc to change .
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If ever there was a time for the Taxi trade to cover every job , accept every credit card and do the job with a smile, it is right now . Without mentioning a certain low level opposition, if you are working ,you’ll understand.
#Winning
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The
@MayorofLondon
talks of Building back better and that we can’t have a car led recovery. In a single week TFL have just issued an additional 463 Private Hire vehicle Licenses??
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The Mayor doesn’t want a car led recovery ?! TFL issues 232 new Private Hire vehicle Licenses in a single week .
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119 New PH licenses in a single week in London . Talk to us again about not being able to have a car led recovery and build back better ?
@MayorofLondon
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Saying a prayer tonight for our cabbie brother involved in a terrible accident last night .
#GOONER
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Uber on the rank trying to recruit at Waterloo and all over the radio with their bribes . You want to legitimise your cowboy outfit off our backs . Stick your £400 up your Prius !
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@tom_the_cabbie
@Deliveroo
We might need a poll , whose side are you on ?
Deliveroo Man
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Neither
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How much proof is needed that these rental scooters are breaking all the so called safety features?
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There seems to have been a very pleasant upturn in work levels . Now is the most important time ever to provide a top service , cover every job , happily accept every card payment .
#Blackcabs
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The Ikea store in TOTTENHAM closing should be no surprise , the cabinets were old and dusty and no cups were ever available 🙄🙄
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More garages are opening , work levels are very slowing creeping upwards , the trade is beginning to get its wheels turning again .
@londontaxi_pr
has a great campaign, let’s be positive and move forward .
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Oh how I’ve missed cabbing in London on a Friday night ! A wealthy customer trying to organise a prostitute and 5g of cocaine, £500 for an hour ! What recession .
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Is Paris getting it right where London isn’t ? Banning e-scooters and exempting Taxis from all traffic reduction schemes ?
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Only 476 new private Hire licenses issued in London this week alone . Why is traffic so bad they ask and councils talk about the need to deal with pollution/ traffic . How many lobby for a cap on PH numbers ???
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Let’s enjoy the victory. We need to find a way to work with our regulator to get full inclusion in the future plans for London’s roads .Thats all we ever wanted , the ability to do our job in an efficient manor .
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The moaning from Uber users today . My fare might go up , Uber drivers who I give a rating to , tell me they love their job . I want cheap even if Uber avoid tax liabilities and many drivers are supported through tax benefits .
#gigeconomy
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@Typhoo_Tea
@bobbynenggg
@PGtips
@YorkshireTea
Just proves that tea is actually the answer to all the worlds problems ( Us Brits obviously knew this already )
#kettleon
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When someone on twitter moans about Uber and says they got a black cab home and app deleted , the cabbie PR suicide squad pile in with abuse . Social media is not the place for some .
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Dear
@CityWestminster
Employing camera operators who don’t know their left from right is not the cleverest of policies . A ticket issued for a no right turn . 🤷♂️
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9893 Additional private Hire cars Licensed in London in the last 12 months alone , adding to an already huge number . Everybody wants to talk big about pollution, but nobody wants to discuss or deal with the Big Elephant in the room . Traffic and pollution anyone ?
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Cabbies on twitter , Positive story -Get slaughtered . Negative story - Get stick . Concern about cabbies mental health - Get ridiculed .Post about freebie , returning goods , airport job , loving LEVC cab , get attacked . PR and unity not our strong point .
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The friendliness and goodwill from customers this week has been extraordinary. Thank you London and welcome back .😍
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Congratulations to the
@metpoliceuk
for finally dealing with some of the pedicabs , which exploit tourists and are an embarrassment to our great city .Keep up the good work .
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We are all cabbies and any abuse on here, or on the streets is pointless and achieves nothing . Argue , debate , disagree , but let’s keep it civil .
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So the Mayor has appealed the decision to allow Taxi access to roads (particularly Bishopsgate) and is going to spend more taxpayers money in the courtroom . Good job there is no crime or homelessness in London at the moment!!!
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Have you noticed how the controversial LTN’s are being rebranded as ‘streets for people’ 😂
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Dear
@TfL
I have be practicing getting prepared for your new speed limits in my cab , so far I have been arrested for kerb crawling twice , three birds have nested on my roof and four homeless people have moved in .
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So are TFL going to waste more taxpayers money and appeal a conclusive judgement that Taxis have road access ,to do the job that TFL regulates , compels and licenses them to do ?
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The rest of Europe , Lock down , England , let’s go to the darts 🎯🍺
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Whoever thought that a good place to put the ugly eye sore e-scooter rentals was on the traffic islands around Trafalgar sq , so the first movement on them is into complicated traffic , is a special kind of stuipid .
@CityWestminster
More resignations needed ?or was it TFL ?
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Fury wins , England beat the Irish , Arsenal win and spurs loose , a top top sporting weekend .🍷
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Shame to hear Sean Lock has died , picked him up a couple of times when he lived off the Roman , nice man . R.I.P .
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@realbritainros
Had him in the cab a couple of times , one of the nicest and most intelligent people I’ve ever picked up .
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Job to Honor Oak Park . “Since I’ve been back using Taxis , Every single one has taken me , been chatty and friendly and happily accepted credit cards “ A simple but successful formula. 🥊
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Park Lane is probably the least used and the cause of the most traffic and pollution increase of any scheme in the whole of London . To defend it and to make it permanent is dogma led and shows no concern for large number of Londoners , be they bus users, Taxi passengers etc .
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Bell End of the day offering from Uber in sunny Brixton !
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The anti - vehicle people out there must now realise that for now , without roads , fuel and vehicles the economy grinds to a halt .
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If you get fined/ Ticketed on the Selfidges “popup rank” on Oxford st by the enforcement that is coming , I don’t think any trade organisation should fight and defend you . You have been warned !
#playthegame
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Everyone can see park Lane bike lane is a failed experiment, it causes congestion and pollution over a huge area . The only logical explanation I can think of , is that it is people playing politics. Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster are Tory??
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Phone snatching by boys on bikes is at epidemic proportions around Waterloo and London Bridge stations , bank accounts are being drained within minutes of offence , be aware .
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For those campaigning for LTN ‘s and less traffic and pollution, TFL licensed 225 new private Hire licenses this week alone ! Joined up thinking ?
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To those cabbies that say there is nowhere to eat at night . Crazy salad , Woburn place is open late and decent.
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Abuse of Uber users is usually pointless and doesn’t benefit the trade , but ,But to see them moan and winge about prices over Christmas 🎄 WTF did they expect with their support of deregulation and the so called free market
#Purgethesurge
😂😂😂
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Good luck to all those attempting to organise something against the overbearing enforcement the trade is facing from TFL , while others don’t even need to pass a basic language test .
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7000 New private Hire Licenses in the last 12 months . How’s the traffic and pollution going in London ?
#Breathe
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10,123 New private Hire Licenses in the last twelve months . Don’t let any politician lecture on traffic or pollution while this growth continues.
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Those environmentally aware and green leaning Councils of Cornwall understand the obvious logic of allowing Taxis access , the plastic ones of London , not so much !
#Falmouth
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Own up , who still gets caught out by Albert Bridge, thinking they have a puncture ???
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470 New private Hire vehicle licenses in a week . We can’t have a car led recovery.
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Well done to the members from this forum who attended the Tower Hamlets meeting tonight concerning the Wapping bus gate , no other representatives from the trade attended .
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There are many mini cab users who seem to have loved the free market , low regulation and poor safety record part of the service . But now the cost is through the roof , boy are they whinging and moaning .
#Karma
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Many of us chat a lot about the trade on twitter , but do little about it . Many of us chat a lot but also put their money where their big mouths are !
@UTAG17
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Word on the street is that a very famous traffic light ( Dilly and Bolton ) has again been attacked and demolished by the satnav watching fraternity
#ubered
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Ginger Pat currently giving people grief for not wearing masks in the Beigel shop !
#Legend
😂😂😂
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To all involved in today’s court case , the trade is with you .🥊
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Oxford street currently has an influx of this rarely seen creature , known as people!
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The carnage of Liverpool st rank at night needs urgent attention from the orgs . Getting in , getting out , PH on the rank , blocking the rank etc . Something needs sorting desperately.
#chaos
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As the petrol crisis slowly eases , the media is talking about a Turkey for Christmas crisis . Don’t they ever have a day off ! 🙄
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The super tech geo-fencing means e-scooters can not possibly be left in non approved places .
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Lots of compliance activity at stations at the moment on despicable Taxi drivers having the audacity to use their hand held payment systems . How dare they use a cheaper and more efficient option !
#Beware
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A special award tonight for all those managing surface Transport and the road network in London . 👍You are all officially incompetent.
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French businesswomen who has recently moved to London said the main difference between London and Paris , is the quality of Taxis here , clean, competent , friendly and accept card payments. To the silent majority who do the job properly , we salute you
#Worldsbest
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Cabbies don’t help each other at Liverpool st they moan . Three all helping each other , different races , different badge numbers . Don’t believe the D and G brigade .
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There seems to be a bit of an increase lately from the
#Enemywithin
. Please just Cover all work , pick all decent people up and go wherever customers want to go . We are winning minor battles , but are still at war .
#Londonsfinest
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@JackMcglocks
@FreeNow_UK
@FreeNowDrivers
There is enough work around to not accept this work , arguably enough to not pay any commission for any App work at the moment . The less we cover , the more commission will reduce . After many years we have the stronger hand for once .👍
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@frenchtaxi
@Slyfox67Simon
The worlds great cities are all restricting vehicles , Paris and New York are mostly accommodating their Taxis . In London
@MayorofLondon
is allowing councils to exclude them . Many measures are needed but why are London cabs being punished and banned ?
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Covent Garden , Beautiful as always, sadly so empty and quiet . 😍
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@seephothi
@garygusset1
@Uber
It’s the free market that you the consumer bought into . Damn those regulations that control prices .
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More cabs , get them plated and working , get drivers back to work !
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Huge turnout at Tottenham ct road , stationary all around centre point and beyond . Enough is enough.
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