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Mayor quadruples team tackling illegal taxi and minicab activity

Sadiq Khan has committed to a dramatic expansion of the Transport for London (TfL) team responsible for tackling touting and illegal activity affecting the Capital's taxi and private hire trades.

As part of a concerted drive to improve customer safety, an extra 250 Compliance Officers will be recruited and deployed over the next year to patrol London's streets and crack down on illegal activity and improve safety. The Mayor's move quadruples the size of a team which provides a highly visible, uniformed presence in the West End, City and other areas across London.

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said:

'I want Londoners to feel safe when they take a taxi or minicab and that is why I have approved a major increase to the size of our team that targets touts and illegal activities. It is the first part of a wider programme I will be introducing that will drive up standards in the industry and help our world famous cabbies continue to thrive.'

Steve Burton, TfL's Director of Enforcement and On-Street Operations, said:

'Illegal minicab activity not only poses a serious risk to passenger safety but undermines licensed, law abiding taxi and private hire drivers. This welcome boost to our enforcement team provides Londoners with additional reassurance and also sends a message to those not complying with the law that they will be caught and dealt with robustly.'

Steve McNamara, General Secretary of the Licensed Taxi Drivers Association, said:

'This is fantastic news for Londoners and the black cab trade; it is so refreshing to have a Mayor who recognises the danger posed to the travelling public by illegal minicab activity and is prepared to act to ensure their safety. We welcome this substantial increase in compliance officers, and look forward to working with Sadiq in the future.'

The new officers will be funded through changes to private hire operator licensing so that larger firms pay a greater share of the costs of enforcement.

TfL and its partners regularly carry out operations to deter and disrupt illegal minicab activity in the Capital and protect the public from touts. Operation Neon is a joint operation between TfL, the Metropolitan Police Service and Westminster City Council that takes place every weekend. An operation running between May 2015 and July 2016 has seen the following results:

Operation Neon results:

•127 Operations.

•9699 private hire drivers advised and moved on to keep roads clear for taxis and booked private hire cabs.

•448 private hire drivers were reported for not having a badge and were stopped from working for the remainder of the evening.

•5116 private hire drivers were reported for not wearing their badge.

•65 private hire drivers reported for plying for hire offences.

•1265 private hire drivers reported for parking on taxi ranks.

•2916 Parking tickets issued.

Today's announcement is the first part of a comprehensive strategy overseen by the Mayor that will herald in a new era for the Capital's taxi and private hire trades. It will deliver radical improvements for customers, a boost to safety, support for the taxi trade and further improve the quality of service offered by the private hire trade. There will also be a concerted effort to make the Capital's taxi fleet the greenest in the world.

This activity will sit alongside improvements already underway following TfL's review of Private Hire Regulations. From 3 October this year all taxis in the Capital will be required to accept card payments, including contactless, to make services even more accessible to the public.

source: https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media/press ... b-activity

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

So here we see a Labour Mayor in action carrying out an action that Barmy Boris refused to consider at all so now the DIRTY DEPICALE DISHONEST DIABOLICAL SCUM THAT OWN AND RUN COMPANY'S WITHIN THE TFL AREA WILL SEE THEIR LICENSING FEES RISE MASSIVELY to police their vehicles activities to prevent them from touting parking on TAXI Ranks etc

This Mayor has also agreed plans to remove topographical testing from the proprietors and to force each and every licensed driver to undergo an English test to ensure they can actually READ write and speak ENGLISH Something else that VERMIN Tory refused to do AND kEN WAS COMMITED TO ENFORCE had he won the election so 8 years of exploitation by the proprietors at Boris's behest come to an end and now the proprietor scum will squeal like stuffed pigs GOOD

There's plenty more bad news on the way for the exploiting scum rest assured

The lesson this Labour Mayor was supported by the Unions UNITE and GMB and now he listens and acts upon their concerns in the biggest licensing authority in the UK.

WHY DONT YOU DO IT IN YOUR LA ??

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Should 448 drivers with NO badge not just been stopped from working for the rest of the night but stopped working fullstop and prosecuted for having no license?.

I have no knowledge of the incident you are referring to why not post it up

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It is one of the results claimed in the operation Neon article about the new Mayor

REALLY WHERE CAN IT BE READ ?

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Where you are applauding the article.

Jasus yer ard work read it it means they did not have in their possession their badge their required to wear.


suspect they received a fixed penalty fine of £60, which used to occur some time ago if they were not wearing it ! coupled with being sent home seems fair enough to me

5116 were reported for not wearing their badge AND WILL GET CLOBBERD FOR LOADS OF ££££ 448 sent home for not having it in their possession PLUS BEING REPORTED FAIR ENOUGH

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So a Labour Mayor gets on the job shaming his VERMIN predecessor and assists all Hack and PH to earn a living and on HERE all the anti Labour and anti Union burkes are as usual struck dumb .....................hardly surprising

THE MESSAGE IF YOU WANT YOUR TRADE REGULATED FAIRLY AND VIGOROUSLY IN A MANNER REFLECTING YOUR VIEWS

JOIN A UNION ........................VOTE LABOUR

AS USUAL LONDON SHOWS THE WAY FOR THE YOKELS

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UKIP reply


TfL announcement that the taxi and private hire compliance team will be quadrupled is welcome, but just the start


DavidK.jpgTransport for London’s (TfL) announcement today that the taxi and private hire compliance team will be quadrupled has been welcomed by UKIP London Assembly member David Kurten, though he says it is "just the start".

David Kurten AM, who sits on the London Assembly Transport Committee, said, "The Mayor committed to improving safety and supporting the black cab trade in response to questions I asked him at City Hall.

"Whilst today's news is welcome, it is just the start as more needs to be done to deal with the surge in numbers of Private Hire Vehicles (PHVs) that happened under both Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson's watch.

"I would like to see a temporary freeze on the number of PHV licences issued in London to allow for more stringent regulatory systems to be put in place, for example, I would like to see that all PHV drivers are required to pass a rigorous English-speaking test and that licenses are only issued to drivers who have at least one year's driving experience in London.

"In the meantime, I hope the newly increased taxi and private hire compliance team is given the resource it needs to clamp down on illegal Private Hire operators and practises."


source: http://www.ukip.org/tfl_announcement_th ... _the_start

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well if the numbers of vehicles being licensed is indeed increasing dramatically as claimed by various politicians then they need to increase the size of the team and should also have increased revenues to do so.

But what about the London licensed cars working in Reading,Bristol and Cardiff how are they going to be "policed" ?

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INDEED THE TEAM NEEDED QUDRUPLING SOMETNING BORIS REPEATEDLY REFUSED EVEN TO DISCUSS AND NOTE ITS THE PROPRIETORS WHO WILL PAY THE COSTS

AS FOR LONDONLICENSED CARS WORKING IN READIN BRISTOL AND CARDIFF I WOULD SUGGEST THATS THEIR PROBLEM MAYBE THEY SHOULD FOLLOW LONDONS EXAMPLE JOIN A UNION VOTE LABOUR GET ACTION

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