We’ve received word that Mike Brown has allegedly let it be known to the assembled trade reps at the last TOPS meeting that the trade is going to be allowed full access to Tooley Street. He said the results of the consultation are now in and they will be officially published in May.
Although the reps have been tight lipped, the news has started to surface on social media. We wait with baited breath to see who will emerge first to claim... “it was all our work... honest”. We may even see a few broken arms as certain trade so called senior representatives, vigorously pat themselves on the back.
Before anyone tries to claim it was all their work (where’ve seen that before?), let’s not forget that the ITA told everyone about this victory at the Bank Junction, back in December last year.
Taxi Leaks would like to thank the true combatants, the true victors, the actual front line troops...the working drivers from all unions and orgs, who turned up time and time again to answer the call from the ITA, after the 13 week campaign, which has resulted in this fantastic victory.
COME HERE.... THERES MORE!
But it doesn't stop there, there's more ... Another victory that seems to have slipped under the wire is the fact that Camden Council have decided to delay the Tottenham Court Road Northbound ban, until March next year. The Buses and Cycles only scheme was originally scheduled to be put in place from the 20th April, but it’s alleged the council planners were worried about a new wave of total blockades by the ITA and so have delayed their implementation till next spring.
WHO SAID DEMOS DON’T WORK ???
TAXI LEAKS EXTRA BIT :
As the General Secretary of the UCG Trevor Merrills says :
“This isn’t about the colour of your lanyard.....it’s the badge on the end of it, what counts”.
Grant Davis LCDC congratulates all Drivers and the ITA who took part relentlessly in protesting. This shows just how wrong and out of touch Steve Mc and the LTDA COM really are with the conditions of working drivers.
On international woman’s day, the general secretary and committee members of the RMT Taxi Branch, were joined in Parliament Square by their first ever elected female president.
Is it not time the trade took a good look at their representation. As a working taxi driver, you need a bit more support than a new lanyard and a diary.....
The ITA protests were fully supported by the Secretaries/Chair and Committee members of the LCDC, RMT and UCG.
With our largest org’s general secretary refusing to support drivers fighting for the right to go wherever buses go....let’s wait and see ( where have I heard that before?) how this is reported in the LTDA in-house publication.
This isn’t the end of our protests, it’s not even the begging of the end.... but it is the end of the beginning. The fight for full bus lane access London wide, goes on from 8th May.
DON’T FORGET : ONLY ONE DAY LEFT.
Consultation Alert the taxi age limits and exemptions consultation closes tomorrow on Friday 26 April 2019. Please ensure that you have responded
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