Pedicabs Revisited

by John Kennedy

I’m sure many of you have seen the front of the well respected “TAXI” newspaper and were probably jumping for joy thinking that at long last transport for London have seen sense and decided to remove pedicabs/rickshaws from the public highway.

by John Kennedy

Well it was only a matter of time before for the specialist transport union within the transport industry opened a branch for London taxi-cab drivers. This isn’t about personal politics but it is certainly about the representation taxi-cab drivers feel they have received to date ...

by John Kennedy

Only yesterday the newest and fastest growing taxi driver union within London held its first demonstration. Yes the Rail Maritime and Transport Union (RMT) picketed the offices of Westminster City Council and demanded fair treatment for taxi-cab drivers who wish to relieve themselves at ...

By John Kennedy.

No not the MP’s expenses (we were debating that years ago on the Clive Bull show on LBC) but the recent action taken by the Public Carriage Office.

I’ve sat back felt a bit ill recently and taken things a little easier for the ...

Well it seems that the Public Carriage Office is starting to understand that the London taxi-cab driver has had enough of this disastrous “safer travel at night project” which placed mini-cab offices inside nightclubs to assist members of the public getting home late at night.

The project is ...

Yes it’s 6.00 am in on a Sunday morning and I’ve just finished working a Saturday night in my taxi-cab and I’m about to tell you a tale of two cities, one where the government pass laws and then devolve powers/authority to bodies like transport for London.

By John "the cabbie" Kennedy.

Well you certainly have to ask the question about that taxi trade demonstration back on the 5th of February 2009, yes the one where up to 8,000 taxi-cabs turned up behaved in a peaceful manner and then went back to work.

Could that ...

 by John Kennedy

Well you should all have received a letter from the director of taxi-cabs and mini-cabs by now and yes it must be said it was nice to receive a apology from the Public Carriage Office (PCO) for any “confusion” created by the “one strike ...