Private Hire drivers hours are being looked at by Government. Louise Ellman MP,chairwoman of the Transport Select committee, says it is an area of concern and is writing to the transport minister to ask for more research to be done. MP’s are concerned following the experience of a Barnsley family whose son was killed by a taxi driver at the end of a 13-hour shift.
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The Following is an excerpt from Jon Snows’ Blog
Whilst this may appear somewhat Londo-centric, I am increasingly coming to recognise the London taxi cab as a credible “economic indicator”. Most times I am observing astride by bicycle, but on occasion I am in one, sometimes even with the said conveyance.
Outside my office in the Grays Inn Road there is a cab rank with room for two. In boom times the rank is normally empty. Of late there have been regularly three, sometimes four cabs waiting – two on the stand, two waiting on the yellow line behind.
In the past two weeks this has become the norm. Worse, upon seeing the state of the rank I now look towards Kings Cross and regularly see between three and five further cabs with their telltale yellow “for hire” sign well alight…………….. Read Jon Snow blogging on taxis.
