Dial-a-Cab Chairman Brian Rice recently made the short trip to Tower Bridge to meet Lib-Dem member and Deputy Chair of the Transport Committee at the London Assembly, Geoff Pope and to pass on some of the concerns that affect the London taxi trade.
   Wearing his hat as current Chairman of the London Taxiboard, Brian brought up the disturbing possibility of private hire being able to use bus and taxi lanes and all the chaos that would ensue should the Mayor ever agree to that scenario.

Brian Rice meets Geoff Pope at City Hall
Mr Rice also brought up the huge problem of Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs) currently being issued to taxi drivers just for doing their job.
   One height of irony with PCNs is that many parking tickets are issued to drivers for waiting or assisting disabled passengers onthe various TaxiCard schemes that are operated by both Dial-a-Cab and ComCab. That irony being that current Mayor, Ken Livingstone, was the person who as head of the former Greater London Council (GLC) brought in the TaxiCard scheme around 20 years ago. It was first installed as an experiment in Camberwell and now covers most of the London boroughs.
 		    In response, Mr Pope promised to put the question to Mayor Livingstone at the next Mayor’s Question Time segment which will be this month (October) having just missed the September slot.
   Speaking to Call Sign after the meeting, the DaC Chairman told us that his 1-hour meeting had gone very well and that he was hopeful that the London Assembly would look favourably at our situation.
   "Geoff Pope is a former Mayor of Richmond – a borough with a heavy usage of licensed taxis - and knows how we operate as well as anyone," said Brian, "so we are hoping that he will look at our problems from a positive viewpoint."

PCO extend approval of Eco-Power
emission reduction system

In order to assist cab owners comply with the emission strategy, the Eco-Power emission reduction system has been approved upon completion of independent field trials and testing to Euro 3 level, in support of the Mayor’s Taxi Emission Strategy.
   Following further development of the Eco-Power system, it now comprises a cooled Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) circuit and a combined catalyst with a revised partial flow filter unit. This original system was approved for installation on the Euro 1 LTI Fairway and Euro 2 LTI TX1 taxis, which then became Euro 3 compliant:
   This modified system has been independently assessed by the Energy Saving Trust (EST) and has undergone a monitored period of ‘in-service’ durability testing and is now approved for the above two models…
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