TfL Have Revoked 42 Operator Licenses So Far This Year. Guess Which One Is Not On The List?

TfL have always come under fire over their alleged unsavoury relationship they have with the ride-share app Uber.

This week has seen TfL employees, in an act of censorship, openly removing news papers from a Taxi. The newspaper's headlines and inside story, informing the public of an Uber Driver who was sentenced to 12 years in jail for raping a passenger after cutting away her underwear with a knife. 

The employers said the headline on the front page of Taxi newspaper, was "misleading". 

It has now been alleged that TfL have been purging Uber's competitors at an unprecedented rate (42 since the beginning of 2017). 

Reasons given for the revocations of operators licences in TFL's own words are:

• Company ceased trading.

• Failing a compliance inspection(s)

• Failing to meet the fit and proper Pearson criteria.

With Uber....

• Failing to provide a landline from the time of initial licence request, up till the time TfL changed to regulation to favour Uber.

• Operating knowingly from unlicensed premises in N1, which also had no planning permission from Islington council

• Had drivers operating with no insurance, some with fictitious ( in the words of TFL's Leon Daniels) on-off insurance

• An unprecedented number of road traffic accidents

• An unprecedented number of driver related passenger serious sexual assaults including rapes, which have escalated last year by 50% to one a week

• Fake medical checks, 

...surely it would be fair to say Uber would snugly fit into two of the above categories for the location of operators license. 

We've also heard this week that while TfL have refused to meet with Taxi trade orgs over the last eight months, arrangements were made by TfL management to meet with Uber on a quarterly basis.

This whole situation regarding the unsavoury partnership between TfL needs to be investigated as soon as possible 

WE NEED A PUBLIC INQUIRY AND WE NEED IT NOW.

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