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Night Tube: Black cab drivers call for more taxi ranks outside stations served by 24-hour service

London's black cab drivers today called for more taxi ranks to be installed outside Underground stations ahead of the launch of the Night Tube.

The Licensed Taxi Drivers Association said it wants every station stop on the 24-hour service to have a working cab rank outside.

It urged local authorities across the capital to work together to ensure taxi ranks were installed close to stations to increase the safety of Night Tube passengers.

The Night Tube will launch on the Central and Victoria lines from Friday, with the Northern, Piccadilly and Jubilee lines following in the autumn.

TfL said there will be taxi ranks at 12 Central line stations and eight Victoria line stations when it launches this weekend.

Steve McNamara, LTDA general secretary, said: "London is a 24-hour city and it is only right that it has a 24-hour tube service.

"We want everyone enjoying a night out to know they'll be able to get home safe, and so think that every Night Tube station needs to have a working cab rank during Night Tube hours.

"The LTDA is currently speaking with local authorities across the capital to ensure that this is the case".

London Underground boss Mark Wild today said about 200,000 passengers are expected to use the Night Tube every weekend.

It is expected to cost £24.6 million a year to run.

source: http://www.standard.co.uk/news/transpor ... 21406.html

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clearly worried about loss of trade and rightly so

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

GBC will tell you that he doesn't want that kind of riff raff in his cab anyway.

Also I'm not sure there is a shortage of work for those black cab drivers who work nights.

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IDFIMH

Get real finding one is a result and then its "nah dont do sarf London" or "aint going that way"

Now i fullly agree about SARf London its a disgusting CESS pit but selecting jobs ???

More ranks are needed remember not all OXO stations are close to some peoples houses


As for the LTDA their just SCUM proper black cabbys join the RMT

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