The newspaper of the Licensed Taxi Drivers’ Association LTDA TEAM UPDATES Pages 5-12 The newspaper of the Licensed Taxi Drivers’ Association NHS LOOKS TO CABBIES FOR www.ltda.co.uk @TheLTDA HELP Page 3 #473 FEATURE: PAGE 22 & 23 28 July 2020 TAXI QUIZZES AUTHOR OF NEW LONDON CABBIE’S QUIZ BOOK! EXCLUSIVE:TAXI TALKS WITH WWII HERO Pages 22-23 www.ltda.co.uk 19th January 2021#484 LOCKDOWN 3.0 LTDA goes council to council for driver grants 2 www.ltda.co.uk @TheLTDA Contents & News SAD DEATH OF FORMER TAXI TFL TAXI CARD TO MAKE CHARGING CHEAPER Inside... EDITOR AND VALUED COLLEAGUE Cabbies wanting to charge ZEC taxis, can now park in It is with great selected Q-Park car parks for just £2 for the first hour, using 19:01:21 sadness that the new TfL Taxi Card. The new cards can be purchased for TAXI reports the £15 (Excl. VAT) and will mean that taxi drivers pay a much 3 | News recent death, lower rate to park whilst charging their vehicles. at 83 years, of 5 | Steve McNamara former editor The new TfL Taxi Cards can be used at the following Dave Barnes. Q-Park car parks: 6 | Anthony Street Dave was a licensed driver n Tower Bridge 8 | Paul Brennan and long-term n Park Lane member of the n Surrey Street 11 | Lloyd Baldwin LTDA. He edited n Pimlico this paper for n Westminster 12 | Sam Houston several years n St Johns Wood during the n Chinatown 14 | LTDA Feature eighties and n Harley Street was also an n Oxford Street 15 | Wim Faber active LTDA n Soho Dave at work 16 | Steve Kenton Committee Member. He will be remembered particularly Cards can be purchased on the Q-Parks website here: 18 | Rob Lordan for his outgoing character and biting sense of www.q-park.co.uk/en-gb/tfl-taxi-cards/ humour, which he often aired in his editorial Drivers who currently hold a Q-Park card, issued by TfL, 20 | Phil Brown column. Dave leaves a son, daughter and can continue to use their existing card and will receive the four grandchildren. same discount. 22 | Exclusive: Taxi Charity 24 | Chris Ackrill NHS LOOKING FOR CABBIES WILLING 27 | Puzzler TO HELP 29 | Al Fresco With the NHS under CONTACTING TFL DURING enormous pressure 30 | Musher Meg once more, as Covid-19 LOCKDOWN Puzzler answers infection rates reach TfL are encouraging those needing to unseen levels, a number reach the TPH Licensing Team to do so 3 of NHS hospitals are by email, as they have limited access to LTDA Taxi House 133 Great Suffolk Street, looking at ways taxi phone lines. 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Reg No: FRN 833132 4 www.ltda.co.uk @TheLTDA General Secretary | Steve McNamara Pushing for Local Grants and Mobilising the “Army of Taxi Drivers” “The Government’s response has been to throw money at councils and leave it up to them to actually help people in need…The LTDA is now going council to council...asking them to make grants available to taxi drivers.” would reduce it for the next one. Steve’s comment The newspaper of the Licensed Taxi Drivers’ Association However, the LTDA has been calling The newspaper for clarity on this. We also continue of the Licensed Taxi Drivers’ LTDA TEAM UPDATES Association www.ltda.co.uk PAGE 22 & 23 to highlight the need to change the @TheLTDA FEATURE: Pages 5-12 #473 TAXI QUIZZES AUTHOR OF NEW elcome to 2021, 28 July 2020 LONDON CABBIE’S QUIZ BOOK! eligibility criteria to include those NHS LOOKS TO CABBIES FOR which I hope will be www.ltda.co.uk who have been excluded and had no HELP Page 3 19th January 2021#484 the year of the support at all so far. EXCLUSIVE:TAXIPages TALKS 22-23 WITH vaccine, recovery, WWII HERO The Liberal Democrats, the andW better times ahead, although Green Party’s Caroline Lucas MP, I know it’s hard to feel positive, as Labour’s Shadow Chancellor another lockdown was not what Anneliese Dodds and Finance any of us wanted or needed. Let’s Expert, Martin Lewis, have all also hope it’s the last one. been calling for changes to help those self-employed people, who Can your council help? through no fault of their own, are As you know, the LTDA has been not eligible to claim, including lobbying for more dedicated many taxi drivers. There have financial support for the trade been rumours the Chancellor is to deal with the impact of considering taking some kind of Coronavirus since this crisis action in response to this pressure, began. Ten months on and in but nothing so far. lockdown once more, this is now needed more than ever. The Awaiting a verdict Government’s response has been I was hoping to have an update to throw money at councils and LOCKDOWN 3.0 on our joint legal challenge of the leave it up to them to actually LTDA goes council Mayor's and TfL’s Streetspace Plan help people in need, with little and the Bishopsgate bus gates, but 5 guidance on who or how. to council for at the time of writing we are still Earlier this month, the driver grants waiting on the judgement. Chancellor announced National Meanwhile, we continue to make Lockdown Grants to help the has also highlighted this problem the case for taxis to go where buses hospitality, leisure, and non- to Secretary of State for Transport, “This is a huge go and maintain the access to the essential retail sectors. These are Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP, on our kerb and closed streets they need to administered by councils and behalf. We’ve also approached the flaw leaving drivers serve passengers. based on business rates, are of Local Government Association, unsure where to turn We’ve also become aware of no use to taxi drivers.