The Met Police have asked that Millbank alongside the House of Lords be kept clear. As they have been very accommodating with the protests so far, we feel this request should be facilitated.
When making your way to the protests please use Victoria Street/Broad Sanctuary , Birdcage Walk/Great George , Whitehall and Bridge Street.
Don’t forget this is a fight we must win so please answer the call, and support your trade.
The Taxi Trade protests in Parliament Square are legitimate, peaceful protests that are receiving a lot of attention from both Houses, especially Lords.
We’ve met and spoken to many MPs and also members from the other place who are virtually all supportive given the reason behind our protests which is simply, WHERE BUSES GO, TAXIS GO
In the shadow of the Brexit mismanagement, SadiqKhan is pushing through his crazy traffic schemes in tangent with the extortionate ‘Poll Tax On Wheels’, without the raising of one eyebrow from our national media.
Not only that but local councils are using Sadiq Khan’s lies on pollution to creat utter carnage on London’s major arteries, resulting in gridlock.
The business world is now calling for the embankment to be unblocked after TfL’s commissioner Mike Brown apologised for rushing out the segregated cycle lanes without proper planning.
We have video clips of ambulances and paramedic (first response) vehicles, unable to move, stuck in the chaos of Midland Road, where the Lycra clad councillors from Camden thought it would be a great idea to close off a through route at major cross road and condense four lanes of traffic into just one, to install a extra wide cycle lane.
Midland road is used heavily, to ferry away passengers (by Taxi, Bus, Coach, Car) from one of the busiest international termini in Europe.
Not one word from the mainstream media about the gridlock, and it’s not going to stop any time soon, as more ridiculous schemes have already been and will later be announced.
The Taxi Trade is using the only tool left in our armoury, as our largest org again says we should do nothing and wait and see (a policy that has already lost the trade access to the Bank Junction). Drivers have gathered to protested peacefully over the last few weeks on Tottenham Court Road and Parliament Square.
The protests are planned to continue, in spite of the threat from a minicab Union to meet us head on in the Square on Monday the 25th (when Westminster is expected to announce all traffic other than Buses and Cycles to be banned from parts of Oxford Street).
In a did to contact organisers, the Met police have tweeted asking for a meeting, but we’ve been there before!
The ITA are sceptical about meeting the police who when they met with the UCG, served up the leaders with section 12s and 14s, making it almost impossible for them to organise a decent demo again.
It’s vital that ever Taxi turns up on Monday as we can’t let minicabs hijack our protests. We need to completely seal off the surrounding area with cabs!
It’s not we don’t sympathise with their protest because if they are forced to pay the congestion charge, they become a very valuable commodity, worth about £30m per year to TfL.
But there’s no way they are not hijacking our protest.
Monday is a must for every driver who values his trade. If these protests diminish and die, the trade will never managed to put together another protest and we will just fade away mirroring the demise of the red telephone box.
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