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Taxi protest over traffic rules

Private hire drivers want the same rights as Hackney cabbies
Dozens of private hire taxi drivers have staged a protest march in Nottingham over driving restrictions imposed by the city council.
The drivers want to be allowed to use the same routes into the restricted Turning Point zone as Hackney cabs.

Most cars have been banned from certain streets in Nottingham city centre to try and cut congestion.

But city Councillor Brian Grocock said the protestors were not being discriminated against.

City jams

"You are not restricted from going into the Turning Point, all you have to do is make a detour," he told protesters on Wednesday.

"We have been waiting for a considerable time for the Turning Point to take place. It's on an 18-month experimental period and that's the way it is," he added.

Mark Cartledge, the chairman of the Nottinghamshire Private Hire Association, said he was not surprised by the official response.

"Unfortunately this is the beginning of the action we have to show and it would appear we'll have to continue and jam the city up," he said.

The protest came on the day Turning Point officials announced more than 500 drivers had been fined in just four weeks for flouting the restrictions.

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Yet another example of a small organisation being crapped on.500 members why not get 688,000 behind you.This battle should be one,if anyone from the above organisation wants to contact me 07958275339.
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Impressive.

688 thousand members.

It makes your 12 members of the PD section quite small!

another educated reply i see GBC

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NO SURRENDER!

What would yours have been?

to organise and protest......after all as the case in london is too.....private hire drivers as well as taxis carry the public around too, therefore its not just the drivers being penalised but the customers( they're the people who pay our wages incase u forgot GBC) who are'nt allowed same access as taxis customers to certain areas/streets

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Come along Mr UTU, its not a national secret, how many members does the PD section of the GMB have?

We at the LTDA are mearly a London based association, and we have over 9000 London taxi drivers as members.

Why's that?

They are not being crapped on at all, the PH drivers are moaning that they can't access certain parts of Lower Parliament Street, the only vehicles that are allowed acces are, buses and black cabs, the black cabs are allowed so they can reach their rank, the PH want access to this area but what for. The Council is asking th PHm to make a de-tour of about 300 yards, youhave to see the PH in Nottingham and see what thay are like, they want equal access like the HC.

There was a time when the T&G were all for 'free and open' access.

Oh, they still are meant to be.

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