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Well this is a bit messy, but looks like there was a fake letter, purporting to be from Bradford Council, which said it was clamping down on cross-border working in places like Leeds and York.

Bradford Council have emphatically said that it's fake:




Image: Twitter

For what it's worth, this article appeared on the York Mix website:

Bradford Council in talks with Uber after complaints about drivers in York

https://www.yorkmix.com/news/bradford-c ... s-in-york/

Bradford Council is in talks with Uber about drivers licensed in the city operating in York.

After receiving a number of complaints from York taxi drivers, Bradford council officers have had discussions with the app-based private hire company.

It follows a number of incidents of dangerous driving in the city caught on dashcam video by out-of-town drivers.

However, a letter posted on social media purporting to be from Bradford’s licensing manager, which said the council would might suspend drivers licensed in Bradford and operating predominantly in York and Leeds, has been revealed to be a fake.

The fake had copied out passages from a genuine letter, a spokesman for Bradford Council told YorkMix.

But the problem was a genuine one.

He said: “We have reviewed the situation and are in discussions with Uber about how to solve the problem.”

Operating ‘illegally’

Although City of York Council voted not to renew Uber’s licence in York in December 2017, Uber drivers licensed elsewhere still operate in the city.

City taxi drivers have argued that this is unlawful, and commissioned legal advice from a barrister who argued that out-of-town vehicles and their drivers are illegally operating in York.

Uber drivers have been involved in a number of near misses caught on dashcam video when driving around York. City taxi drivers say this is because they are unfamiliar with York.

Last month a woman was taken to hospital after an Uber and a bus collided on Danebury Drive.


The front of the Uber after the accident on Danebury Drive (Image: York Mix)

either a very good fake or a council cover up

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

So it's not really a fake, more part of a genuine letter.

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IDFIMH

Fake, I'd guess - don't think they'd be so emphatic about it being a fake and that they'd *not* sent it out if there had been such a letter in circulation, because that would come back to bite them on the bum.

If someone *had* made a total cock up then suspect they'd use different language to whitewash it, rather than a complete denial.

Kind of reads like an intended use policy, which would be OK for HCs, but presumably not for PHVs as well.

So even if it was part of a genuine letter, to misrepresent it in any way makes it fake.

Reasonably convincing, though, if it was a fake, and don't really know why anyone would go to the bother, unless it was just some kind of joke that misfired a bit.