Final Nail In Our Coffin? ... Uber Given NHS TaxiCard Account.

Every day I wake up to be greeted by another nail in our coffin. Our readers ask why we don't concentrate on the good news...well truth is, there isn't any.

Today on LBC news, we were told that UBER would now be aiding a NHS service , starting with 5 hospitals in the Barts NHS trust along with Brent, Harrow and Hillingdon....who will all be using uber assist and uber wav. 

The deal hasn't been done directly with Uber, but with Cera who will then outsource the work to uber. 

This will dramatically reduce Taxicard use considerably, currently undertaken by Licensed Taxi drivers, the majority of whom are suburban licence holders. This will almost certainly kill off the suburban Taxi service. 

More than that, this also points to the fact that its more than likely a fait-accomplite and uber will be re-licensed, come what may. 

So they've finally taken away the disabled account completely, question is ... Do we now need an expensive wheelchair accessible vehicle. 

Will Uber Assist and Uber WAV be given access to the parts on London the licensed Taxi trade are to be banned from, i.e. The Tottenham Court Road scheme, the Bank Junction exclusion zone etc. 

Will they be allowed to use bus lanes?

Will the shelved TfL plan raised by Ed Thompson where WAV PHV would share mainline taxi ranks resurface? 

Look at an UBER hospital job. £6 

How the hell can we compete with this?

The saddest fact of all is that this compan is also offering metered Taxis !!!

So, why are we currently having to pay in excess of £ 45k for a WAV?

What they at saying in Social media:

The sad truth is the trade will roll over again. As predicted, all our leaders have left the battle field. 

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