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TfL will not renew Uber's licence

By Guest Kopfkino, in General Chat

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Guest MattP

Guest MattP

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So everyone has to start paying a fortune for black cabs again now?

Finnegan

Finnegan

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10 minutes ago, KingGTF said:

http://news.sky.com/story/transport-for-london-will-not-renew-ubers-licence-11047580

 

TfL can do one:mad:

 

 

Surely it's quite a good thing? They'll obviously appeal and if they have to demonstrate they're improving their attitude towards passenger safety in order to get the license back then good on tfl? 

 

It's going to be their biggest UK market, they'll obviously do whatever they need to to appease tfl. 

 

If it's just a shake down for more money that's sad but if you take tfl at their word then cool. Good on them. 

indierich06

indierich06

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They will appeal. Seems like TfL is trying to force Uber to make some changes - and they are needed to be fair. There's an average of one sexual assault by Uber drivers every week, and the companies treatment of it's staff is terrible. I imagine they'll make a few pledges and win back their license on appeal.

 

Just stinks of TfL trying to look like it's cracking down on Uber, and Khan trying to do something to appease the taxi drivers' union. Khan might be a lot of things, but he's no mug - he doesn't want to cut about 40,000 jobs in the city and piss off the hundreds of thousands of Londoners who use them every day. 

 

Most people I know wouldn't switch to using black cabs anyway - they're too expensive - it would just be back to night buses and night tubes for me and my mates. Bit more inconvenient, but hey-ho.

Finnegan

Finnegan

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9 minutes ago, SMX11 said:

Good old special interests using their influence again, to the detriment of most people........

 

Except they aren't saying uber can't operate in London, they're saying uber can only operate in London if they improve their passenger safety record and improve their service. 

 

So it's only to the detriment of uber and their purse strings, it's actually to benefit joe public? 

 

 

indierich06

indierich06

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31 minutes ago, Lovejoy said:

Initial reaction is a bit annoyed, but that's quite selfish of me. I only ever use Uber when I'm battered or with work associates. Time to take out a mortgage for every black cab journey again though.

It's not even the price that irks me the most about them, it's the fact that you have to find and hail one, you usually have to have cash because they won't take cards, if they do the card machines take ages to work, and half of them won't go south of the river after about midnight - nothing like the convenience of just getting an Uber. Bunch of jokers.

Guest MattP

Guest MattP

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1 minute ago, indierich06 said:

It's not even the price that irks me the most about them, it's the fact that you have to find and hail one, you usually have to have cash because they won't take cards, if they do the card machines take ages to work, and half of them won't go south of the river after about midnight - nothing like the convenience of just getting an Uber. Bunch of jokers.

It's the non stop talking that bothers me, I don't mind a small "How are you, where you from, what you doing" chat in the cab but sometimes it's 35 mins non stop jabbering all the way from the station to the hotel.

 

If the Uber driver can't speak completely fluent English (usually the case in my experience) he isn't going to bore me to death about the time he used to go and watch Tottenham in 1989.

Strokes

Strokes

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1 minute ago, RoboFox said:

Just took my first black cab in years, was WAAAAAAAAAY better than I remember.

 

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I dont get it but my friend is laughing his head off.

indierich06

indierich06

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6 minutes ago, MattP said:

It's the non stop talking that bothers me, I don't mind a small "How are you, where you from, what you doing" chat in the cab but sometimes it's 35 mins non stop jabbering all the way from the station to the hotel.

 

If the Uber driver can't speak completely fluent English (usually the case in my experience) he isn't going to bore me to death about the time he used to go and watch Tottenham in 1989.

100% - Love getting into an Uber knowing that I can just sit there on my phone and not get bothered. Although, I've had a few mad Uber drivers that were very chatty in my time too.

SMX11

SMX11

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35 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

 

Except they aren't saying uber can't operate in London, they're saying uber can only operate in London if they improve their passenger safety record and improve their service. 

 

So it's only to the detriment of uber and their purse strings, it's actually to benefit joe public? 

 

 

I am little sceptical of a reduction of consumer choice based on some discretions as mentioned. If people have a bad service they aren't likely to use said service again unless the cost or convenience is so much greater than the alternative. 

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