I recently had cause to complain to Transport for London about
being delayed by movie companies who use the services of the
Metropolitan Police Service Film Unit to hold up or delay
traffic at certain times while filming is in process. |
Have you been delayed by police while filming took place? DaC’s David Baker took it further DELAYING TAXIS THROUGH FILMING? |
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 Should this type of filming truck be allowed to hold up legitimate traffic? |
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that this type of filming should be restricted to evenings and weekends. After my initial complaint, TfL got back to me and said they would investigate the matter. To give credit where is due, they did exactly that and I subsequently had an email from the officer in charge of the Metropolitan Police Service Film Unit based at the Empress State Building in Lillie Road SW6, who had been contacted by his Commander to investigate the matter. I later received a communication from the sergeant in charge of the unit informing me I have included a brief part of his reply below. It comes from PS Andrew Clerk… "Since the deployment of traffic officers in April, the Metropolitan Police Film Unit has reviewed working practices and further control measures |
are in place when traffic officers are
deployed to assist with moving filming scenes. David Baker (D22) |
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Saving the Planet? |
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Stanley Roth at one of his many meetings with PCO officers, explaning how his gas taxi works Each week a section of the Jewish Torah (five
books of Moses) is read at the Sabbath services. In September we
started reading from the start (In the beginning etc…) again.
Our Rabbi during his sermon, used a commentary written by Chief
Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks. I would like all of you to take note
and say "…what can I do to help?" A Degraded Planet… "We see this today as more and more cities sit under a cloud of smog and as mercury advisories are issued over large sectors of our fishing waters. Deforestation of the rainforests, largely a result of humanity’s growing demand for timber and beef, has brought on irrevocable destruction of plant and animal species. "We can no longer ignore the massive negative impact that our global industrial society is having on the ecosystems of the earth. Our unbounded use of fossil fuels to fuel our energy-intensive lifestyles is causing global change. An international consensus of scientists predicts more intense and destructive storms, floods and droughts resulting from these human-induced changes in the atmosphere. If we do not take action now, we risk the very survival of civilisation as we know it." This sermon made me think about the destruction of the rainforests to grow palms that will be turned in to Biofuels. Also farmers who instead of growing food to feed the starving masses, are also growing crops to use as fuel. Yet everyday we are throwing thousands of gallons of fuel away. What is not happening in this country is the use of Biogas. That is Methane produced from all the rubbish thrown away, plus human and animal effluence broken down, which we would then make us slightly less reliant on the whims of the oil producers. Because RTG are promoting the use of a Biofuel that is not recommend by LTI plus the fact that in the past the LTDA have spoken out against gas, I really wonder which direction those who claim to speak for our trade are taking us? I think that unless we wake up to what we (yes, me as well) are doing to this world of ours, it will get a lot worse. Stanley M.Roth MITG (Y53) |
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