They came from every org, lanyards of every colour, from all over London
They came from Farnborough, Basingstoke, Manchester and Liverpool...
They also came from France, Spain and Belgium.
A truly United trade demonstration
A United trade that TfL have always feared.
London ground to a halt.
I spoke with one of the senior commanders who told me police estimated over 10,000 Taxis had actually turned out to this protest.
Roads were gridlocked from Russel Square, Covent Garden, Victoria Embankment, Fleet Street, Aldwych, Strand, Piccadilly, The Mall. Nothing was moving. All around Victoria Street, Birdcage Walk, Milbank, just lines of stationery Taxis.
Police insisted that drivers once in Whitehall turned off their hire lights and switched off engines. Most drivers locked up their vehicles and mingled. This had the knock on effect of reducing noise levels.
Unfortunately the traffic cops in charge of enforcing the Traffic Management Oder restricted admission from Trafalgar Square in pro Whitehall and many Taxis were kettled in the Mall.
The Traffic officers were also turning away Knowledge Students, when I question why they said they had specific instructions to only allow taxis into Whitehall and were enforcing thus to the letter.
One Knowledge student was arrested by an over zealous traffic officer for wilful obstruction. But after protests to a Bronze commander and the Superintendent in charge of the whole operation, the student was un-arrested
This protest was the biggest Taxi demo London has seen in all my 42 years as a Taxi driver.
As the UCG's Trevor Merrells told the assembled drivers at the end of the afternoon:
"This is only the beginning....No retreat....No surrender"
from Taxi Leaks http://ift.tt/1QWXLqY
via IFTTT
If you have some large crowd in your vehicle and you think there would be no enough space for more friends then I think you should take the advantage of being located in farnborough.
ReplyDeletefarnborough taxi service