James Farrar
@jamesfarrar
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Fighting for digital worker rights. RTing ≠ endorsing. Work @WorkerInfoX
UK
Joined December 2007
Solidarity with Jakarta Indonesia rideshare and delivery drivers. Nothing but empty words and gestures from GoJek and Grab.
aljazeera.com
Affan Kurniawan was killed after an armoured police vehicle ran into him during a demonstration in the capital.
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Bolt are collapsing the service tiers that distinguish iconic black cabs from minicabs & the disabled will suffer as a result. Bolt is trying to recruit black cab drivers to its cheaper "Assist" product eventhough the more expensive, metered black cab option is a 100% WAV fleet.
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TfL really need to consider carefully if tight turning circle capability for maneuvers in heavy traffic is too much of a safety risk for the limited passenger convenience it affords.
Don’t know what happened but that minicab is in a guilty position. TXE is a write off.
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This is in absolute tragedy and a testament to the fact that poor/no regulation of safety of transport services leads inevitably to catastrophic results for workers and passengers. We need to introduce criminal sanctions for negligent regulators.
TfL have been sitting on their hands on the powers to regulate these things for 18 months and are still consulting!! Blood on their hands?.
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RT @TheLTDA: TfL have been sitting on their hands on the powers to regulate these things for 18 months and are still consulting!! Blood on….
thesun.ie
THREE people have been rushed to hospital after a glowing rickshaw crashed with a double-decker bus in central London. The pedicab rider and two passengers are critically injured, with one rushed t…
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Uber drivers must demand Uber IMMEDIATELY drop Allianz for sickness insurance. UN report finds Allianz helped "sustain & pay for Israel’s actions in the Palestinian territories”. Uber, cancel Allianz NOW. Stop the Gaza genocide NOW!
irishtimes.com
Move follows similar demands among GAA members unhappy over relationship with multinational insurance company
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'Make travel in London free for everyone', TfL told - MyLondon
mylondon.news
The Commons Transport Committee last week proposed everyone under 22 be given free bus passes
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Oohh, four "self employed drivers". Amazing business opportunity.
theargus.co.uk
A "well-established" taxi company has gone on sale for £149,995.
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Of course the police, investigating themselves, found this to be appropriate. Disband the police and ground that crew now.
theguardian.com
Internal review by the National Police Air Service finds the crew acted ‘appropriately’ during pursuit
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What does the curve look like with apps and without?.
All this talk about cabbie earnings got me thinking. I decided to run the numbers. 4 people. 2 cabbies. 2 lawyers. All starting work at 21. Working for 30 years. Lawyers' student loan repayments factored in. Modest lifestyle, all spending equally. All investing 10% of their net
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Getting lectures on privacy from Deliveroo is like taking tips on table manners from Hannibal Lecter
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Uber Users Cancel Rides With Human Drivers to Ride in Waymo Taxis - Business Insider
businessinsider.com
Uber users in Atlanta are dropping rides with human drivers to maximize their chances of getting a self-driving Waymo taxi.
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China plots robotaxi invasion of Britain
telegraph.co.uk
Thousands of driverless cars could descend on UK roads as ‘China’s Google’ eyes expansion
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The cab enforcement unit of @MPSRTPC is "exclusively" funded by license fee from 105k minicab drivers & 15k black cab drivers. Yet TfL & Met decide that lost property cop shop drop off should be a service "exclusive" to BC drivers? Institutional racism is alive and well in London
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This is the very opposite of good PR for the black cab trade, to align w someone like Skinner.
We're team @londonkabbie for #DestinationX and team @iamtomskinner for @bbcstrictly .I'm proud to call them friends. Good luck to them both. Have a great weekend.
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"the traditional minicab business model is brutally exploitative as drivers are very low paid & have to work long hours". - @DomMoxonTritsch, Uber, 2015. 10 on & things are far worse for drivers while the app management class have become filthy rich beyond their wildest dreams
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