Last weeks stats showed 101 Vehicles decommissioned, and this week they show we lost another 104 vehicles from the fleet. Even though 70 new cabs were sold, that's still a combined void of 205 vehicles lost from the fleet in just 14 days.
With this constant decrease of vehicles lost forever from the main taxi fleet, Project Horizon's goal of bringing the trade down to under 13,000 vehicles, could well be achieved in the next 11 months.
This will affect drivers renting as Taxis became scarce and rental rise!
Virtually no arguement from our orgs (another done deal perhaps), forced into a situation with only one (extremely expensive) vehicle and no suitable infrastructure, when we were promised a possible five vehicles to choose from with charging points in every street.
Rrecently Sadiq Khan's TfL gave the go-ahead for ViaVan (a minicab operator) to function using the very vehicles we've been banned from buying, and yet still our orgs fail to argue for the trades continued survival with current levels stabilised.
Watch GLA member Keith Prince argue the point with both TfL commissioner Mike Brown and Mayor Sadiq Khan, that the London Taxi trade should have been allowed to carry on purchasing and using the Euro6 Mercedes Vito as Via Van have been authorised to use, until the infrastructure is more suited to support the trade's transition to electric vehicles.
TAXI LEAKS EXTRA BIT :
'News' yesterday that Sadiq Khan has agreed to meet with the protesters who held London's businesses to ransom for 10 days.....yet after a 13 weeks campaign of protests, the Mayor and Mike Brown still refuse to meet with spokespersons from the Independent Taxi Alliance.
Still don't believe in Project Horizon?
Still don't believe the Mayor, TfL and the MSM are bias?
Don't forget, although we've won a victory with Tooley Street and a delay at Tottenham Court Road...our campaign to make it law "Wherever Buses Go, Taxis Go", resumes on Wednesday the 8th of May.
Location and times will be announced nearer the date.
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