London: Weekly TfL roads and events update

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BrixtonUntil 03:00 on Sunday 17 June, there will be lane closures on Brixton Road at the Southey Road junction, due to gas main replacement works. GunnersburyFrom 09:00 on Monday 4 June until 09:00 on Tuesday 5 June, traffic will be reduced to two lanes on A406 Gunnersbury Avenue. This is due to work on Power Road Bridge.

Royal Marines Beating Retreat, Westminster

Thursday 31 MayBirdcage Walk and Horse Guards Road will close from 16:00 until 21:00, due to this annual ceremonial event held upon Horse Guards Parade Ground between 19:30 and 20:20 O2 Arena music concert - Thursday 31 May • Between 18:30 and 22:30 for Bryan Adams (capacity 15,000)Music festivals (Field Day & Mighty Hoopla), Brockwell Park

Friday 1 to Sunday 3 June • Field Day takes place on Friday from 13:00 until 23:00, with a capacity of 20,000, and from 11:30 until 23:00 on Saturday, with a capacity of 32,000 • Mighty Hoopla takes place on Sunday from 12:00 until 22:00, with a capacity of 20,000 • To facilitate the egress, Brixton Water Lane and Morval Road will close and there will be traffic management at the Herne Hill/Dulwich Road/Norwood Road junction from 22:00 until 23:00 on Friday, 21:30 until 23:30 on Saturday, and 21:30 until 22:30 on Sunday • The taxi and PHV drop off/pick up location will be at Milkwood Road (SE24 0HA) • There will be restrictions and closures in place on the following roads: Masey Mews, Bailey Mews, Tralawn Road, Brixton Water Lane, Arlingford Road, Brailsford Road, Railton Road, Rymer Street, Dulwich Road, Carver Road, Winterbrook Road, Stradella Road and Brockwell Park Gardens. There will also be increased pedestrians in the Brixton areaAll Points East music festival Victoria Park

Friday 1 to Sunday 3 June – which will be marshalled • Up to 40,000 are expected at this event • A marshalled taxi rank and PHV pick up area will be in operation at Royal Gate West (Victoria Park). Access is via Gore Rd (from Victoria Park Road). Grove Road and part of Old Ford Road will be closed as part of the event road closure. Suburban drivers licenced for Newham and/or Hackney extension can use the taxi rank • To facilitate crowds at egress, from 21:00 (Friday and Saturday) and 20:30 (Sunday), Grove Road will close between Victoria Park Road and Roman Road; and Old Ford Road will close between St Stephen’s Road and Bonner Street. From 21:00 the Grove Road/Roman Road junction will be under manual control. Traffic and transport in the area may experience delays • The event taxi rank will be in operation at Royal Gate West (Victoria Park)London Sevens rugby, Twickenham

Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 June • From 09:30 until 20:30 both days, all roads leading to Twickenham station and around the stadium will be busier than usual, including Chertsey Road. London Road, Whitton Road and Rugby Road will be closedColonel’s Review (Trooping the Colour), Westminster

Saturday 2 June • Annual ceremonial event held on Horse Guards Parade between 10:00 and 13:00 • Constitution Hill, Spur Road, The Mall, Admiralty Arch, Marlborough Road, Birdcage Walk and Great George Street will be closed to all vehicular traffic from 06:00 to enable the installation of security measures • At 09:10 and 13:00 there will also be short closures on Buckingham Palace Road northbound at the junction of Bressenden Place, Buckingham Gate, and Palace StreetInternational football, Wembley

Saturday 2 June • A friendly football match between England and Nigeria will kick off at 17:15 • Higher than usual numbers of pedestrians to be anticipated in the Wembley area • From 14:00 until 23:00, roads around the stadium will be busier than usual, including A406, A1, A40, Harrow Road, Wembley High Road and roads surrounding the stadiumAnniversary of the London Bridge and Borough Market terror attacks

Sunday 3 June • From approximately 15:30 until 17:00, London Bridge and the following approach roads will be closed: Borough High Street northbound from Marshalsea Street, Southwark Street eastbound from Southwark Bridge Road, Tooley Street westbound and Bishopsgate southbound at London Wall.

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Nuneaton Taxi driver completes three thousand mile round trip to the champions league final in Kiev

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Once in a lifetime opportunities don't come around too often, but when Liverpool F.C made it to the champions league final in Kiev the race was on to grab a ticket and arrange your travel to the capital of Ukraine. Taxi driver and owner of taxi firm Direct Taxi, Alan Lawson was desperate to make it to Kiev to watch his beloved Liverpool take on the might of Real Madrid, but when checking the price of plane tickets, a whopping £1,400, he was left pondering on his options. A suggestion from a friend was to offer a road trip through seven countries to get to the stadium for five other fans. The idea was to good to bypass for Alan and after offering his services online, it wasn't long before he had a taxi full of cheering reds. At a price of £350 per person it was a no brainer for the diehard supporters. The long journey started in Nuneaton on the Wednesday night, arriving in Kiev by Friday. The match was played on the Saturday, ending in a 3-1 defeat, and their long ride home begin on Sunday. Mr Lawson confirmed in a report in the Coventry Live that this was the longest fare the firm had ever completed. What's the longest fare as a driver you've ever completed? Let us know in the comments below.

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Blast From The Past.... With TfL Run By Cowboys, The Nightmare Continues

   After six demos and two all party engagements, the signs still went up!

I remember, many years ago, the Metirpolitan Public Carriage Office, writing to every licensed Taxi driver saying "their must be no, 'no go areas' in London for Taxis". 

"You will be expected to go to any destination anywhere within a six mile radius (now extended to twelve) or within one hour in duration and their must be no exceptions". 

Now we have a Mayor, in charge of a Transport body (TfL), bent on the destruction of our 360 year old trade by creating 'no go areas' for London Taxis.

We've had 8 years of protest, demonstration, consultation after consultation, engagement and negotiation. Apart from the killer on the knowledge protests, which saw top TfL directors moved sideways, we've had little or no success. 

Last year, after six demonstrations and two bouts of negotiations, we lost access through the Bank Junction, financed by TfL just to speed up bus times. Once through the junction the busses hit chaos which negates any advantage made by the ban!!!

This is about to be followed by a complete ban from Tottenham Court Road, plus Oxford Street and Baker Street are still being negotiated.

Caught up in the middle of this attack on our trade, are the unfortunates, and they are the disabled and less mobile members of the public. Mayor Khan is trying to steal the freedom of the disabled, to shop wherever they like, in order to give way and make more room for the able bodied shoppers who he hopes will travel forwards and backwards on the Tubes new Elizabeth line. 

The most scandalous aspect of these plans being....there are two wheelchair users on the board of TfL who have said nothing in defence of the disabled's right of access and to shop on Oxford Street.

There is as always a hidden agenda and Khan obviously feels he can supply many extra passengers to the new line by making it as difficult as possible for taxis to get to popular destinations around central London. 

PROJECT HORIZON:

Taxi Leaks spoke of Project Horizon several years ago and TfL flatly denied it ever existed.

We predicted back then, that under this agenda, there would be Taxi no go areas, followed by Private Hire rest ranks where drivers could wait to be hired and PH WAVs rank spaces at mainline stations. 

Remember the Gold, Silver and Bronze PH ranking system? It's still there in the background as TfL never fully scrap an idea, they just shelve it till the time is right. 

WE ALWAYS SAID TFL WERE A BUNCH OF COWBOYS

With Country Boy Rett Russell in charge of London's Ambulance service, it's only a matter of time before we see NHS Uber ranks at hospitals around Greater London...an going on TfL's present form, outside Greater London too. 

As Harry Wall said, "History is there to learn from".

Seems our trade has learned nothing

After years of negativity and deterioration, fighting the unfair and elitist United Trade Group, did we not all cheer when Val Shawcross announced the UTG would be scrapped and the gagging order known as the engagement policy would be assigned to the shredder. 

So what is plan B.

It seems the old United Trade Group is to be replaced by the new United Trade group, and the old gagging order known as the engagement policy, is to be replaced by a new gagging order called the new engagement policy. Again the right to exclude any group they see fit to exclude.

And the price for signing away the right to criticise TfL in print or on social media, is a seat at the old fold up table.

Towards the end of this year, the Taxi trade will be expected to purchase the new electric TX5, even though neither TfL, the GLA, the Mayor or our trade Orgs, have bothered to explore the health risks associated with the radiation given off from the bank of batteries inside the vehicle. 

Not only has TfL put us in the predicament of not being able to afford this vehicle by selling our work to a NonDomicile company that pays little to no tax, we now learn this week that the government is likely to scrap the subsidy they were going to give Taxis and private hire to go electric.

But tell me this Sadiq, will the new electric Taxis be allowed to use all these no go areas and eventually replace the dirty buses that are running round, 100% on diesel, as replacement batteries proved to be too expensive ?  

A blast from Taxi Leaks past December 2013

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