Taxi Driver Online

Big article in today’s daily telegraph on Uber style apps and the huge cost of ev’s killing the black cab trade. Yet to read it.

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Former taxi driver

Can't see it on the Telegraph website, Jimbo. But sounds very like this mega-piece that Sussex posted on here a couple of weeks ago:


‘20-year-olds don’t give a toss about us’: The black cabbies fighting to survive

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/0 ... d-an-uber/

Thanks to private-hire companies, the cost of EVs and Sadiq Khan’s war on the motorist London could soon lose its iconic taxis for good

Although even the search function on the Telegraph's website doesn't seem very good - it wasn't even good at finding the article above with obvious search terms

The black cab trade will be around in London long after all of us on TDO are gone.

London is a very busy place, a world center for finance, hospitality, and entertainment. There will never be too few punters requiring the services of an immediate hire taxi service there.

Of course, having to do an intensive, some say mad, knowledge test, and having to buy the most expensive cab in the world doesn't help, but for those who do persevere with the London taxi trade, the rewards will always be there.

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