T W O
Weeks until
Remembrance Sunday
Things will start to get intense this week.
I’ll be allocating drivers to special pickups.
If you get a call from a phone ending in 022 it could be me. Please help the veterans get to / from Cenotaph
@londontaxi_pr Andy have you seen the drawings done by Glen Marquis? Absolutely brilliant. There's one of pigeons on the roof of a shelter. Not only fantastic drawings & not all of cabs but some are funny as well x He's beluckyartwork on Insta.
Breakfast this morning at one of London’s Green Cabmen’s Shelters
✔️ Can recommend Kensington Park Road @ParkShelter & my bacon roll - good to meet you Karen 👍🏼
You might imagine that Cabs Across Bank was discussed … https://t.co/3Gqryxe7Dp
Learn more about the Green Cab Shelters ⬇️
https://t.co/K3SaqG5iaF
It’s 40 days until the 80th anniversary of D-Day. If you would like to help us take veterans to Normandy for the commemorations you can buy badges and windscreen stickers from our online shop.
@pimlico111 Can't really get to Shepherd's Bush plus not keen on opera. Ballet my thing. Lots of productions coming up but no-one to go with. Not brave enough to go on my own yet😢
@hatted_the@PrayerStephanie@pimlico111 @Herts_GB He certainly did. I think about 80 cabs made it to the cemetery. 30 got lost on the way! Thank you for being there.
Watch @seanpaulday great interview with James Thornton making the case for restoring black cabs to Bank & surrounding rds. Good for business, essential for disabled people, assists women. No evidence it will endanger pedestrians https://t.co/oFhpGyZGxe
@pimlico111 @Herts_GB I love a Beardmore. Such a stylish cab. That radiator's a work of art. If Arnie was still with us we would have been there with his lovely Fairway.
This week, many of the 25 Wards across @thecityofldn will be holding Wardmotes - meetings to which voters are invited (for meeting details follow thread) 🧵⬇️
A number of Wards are looking to pass a motion to ask the @cityoflondon to lift restrictions on Black Cabs at Bank 24/7/365
Walbrook Ward will be looking to pass the following:
THIS WARDMOTE NOTES THAT:-
Since the introduction of restrictions on Black Cabs across Bank Junction:
- 87% of cab drivers have changed their working patterns in relation to the Bank area since restrictions came in with 35% avoiding the City of London completely
- 63% actively avoid working in the Bank area with 49% responding that they avoided the area at all times, regardless of the timings of restrictions
- 44% of jobs booked on the booking app Gett, were unfulfilled in the Bank area compared to just 18% in Covent Garden
- 3 out of 4 requests by mobility app Freenow could not be fulfilled in the Bank area
AND THEREFORE RESOLVES:
That the Corporation of London be asked to urgently expedite the review of these restrictions and that Black Cab access be restored to the Bank Junction 24/7 and 365 days per year.