Dear Deputy Mayor Shawcross
It has been bought to Taxi Leak's attention, that in reply to a letter sent to you by Jackie Doyle-Price MP in late 2016, you allegedly made an untrue statement which did grave damage and stopped the advancement to get her on board in a campaign for the safety of the public using private hire cars.
In your response to Jackie's letter, you stated that:
It should be noted that there are complaints of sexual assaults against Black Cab drivers as much as Private Hire.
At the time of writing this, you could not have known this to be true.
TfL have now published statistics which confirmed that in the year in question (2016) there were no such sexual assaults from Black Cab drivers and that Uber drivers were responsible for more than half of the 164 reported sexual attacks.
Uber are still spouting the lie that all their drivers have gone through the same enhanced DBS checks as Black Cab drivers.
In January this year as I'm sure you know, 13,000 of Uber's drivers were found to have submitted inadequate DBS certificates. Unfortunately for many victims, TfL took the strange decision to say and do nothing, that is until an expose' appeared in the media. These 13,000 drivers were given 28 days by TfL to resubmit, but we've subsequently found out that only 2,642 have in fact resubmitted and as of today, TfL have sent out no suspension or revocation requests to drivers having failed to resubmit genuine DBS certificates.
Until this happens the public are unsafe in Uber vehicles.
The Mayor made a statement at the MQT held in City Hall, 16th November 2017. In answer to a question from assembly member Kurten, he said "any driver who hasn't reapplied should not be working.
It is felt that your statement to MPs scuppered a campaign that could possibly have resulted in many sexual attack victims being protected from having to go through a life shattering experience.
It is my request that you issue a statement of apology to the victims of these heinous attacks, and also to the Licensed Taxi Trade, whose campaign was destroyed by your alleged comment.
I look forward to your reply.
Regards James Thomas
Editor, Taxi Leaks
Licensed Taxi Driver, 44 years service.
TAXI LEAKS EXTRA BIT :
Even more concerning is this information from Twitter, which alleges TFL's TPH General Manager, Helen Chapman, has broken acceptable protocol and been 'tipping off' Uber.
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