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Issue:- 05
December 2014
Taxi War brings leading to traffic
chaos in Liverpool City Centre Photographs by Patrick
Trollope.
LIVERPOOL'S first
directly elected Mayor, Labour's 'Joe'
Anderson was the focus of a
major protest on 5 December 2014, in Liverpool City Centre.
Liverpool's Hackney
Cabs
forced the City Centre into gridlock, as they slowly paraded
around and around the City Centre. As the Black cabs and a
truck, with a printed banner about the protest on it, drove
round and round the City's Streets, passing both the Town Hall
and the Municipal Buildings, they honked their horns and using a
loudspeaker to shout:- "Joe must Go"... We were
informed that the protest was over "out of town"
firms, like Sefton's Delta Taxis, moving into the City. We asked
a spokesman from the Liverpool Taxi Alliance, Karl Barry, about
why they had taken this action. He told us that:- "The
protests today are over the platitudes given to the trade over
the past 2 years, while over time the City Council would appear
to have been ushering Delta in by the back door. This firm has
been allowed to operate within the City with impunity for such a
long time and at the same time the trade has tried to work with
the local authority, but unfortunately they believe they have
been lied to." They told us that they felt they had been
"strung along" over the last few years and wanted to
know why? In the interview you can played below, you can hear
Karl say that:- "The Mayor has made noise that effectively
he supports Liverpool Cab Drivers, local jobs and local people,
but there is no evidence to support that." It is billed
as the first of many, but many motorists looked puzzled as to
what was going on. So we asked why they didn't have any
information in the Cab windows, informing the public what was
going on. So Karl told us:- "One of the drivers recently
did put up a notice on the back of his window and was pulled
over by one of the Hackney Carriage Licensing Officers and was
given a notice, to dissuade and desist. They said it was
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