Campaigns: Supporting the cab trade’s recovery

The LTDA is working to highlight ongoing challenges facing cab drivers due to the pandemic and campaigning to ensure the trade has the support it needs to recover.

This includes calling on policymakers to take steps to get London moving again and boost confidence in the trade and lobbying the Chancellor to extend financial support beyond October and fix problems some have faced in claiming through the Self Employment Income Support Scheme, to ensure everyone can access the support they need. We are also taking every opportunity to shine a light on the devastating impact of excluding taxis from key areas of central London, unnecessary road closures and new road layouts, which are undermining the vital, accessible door-to-door service black cabs provide.

• Sep 2020

  Watch our General Secretary, Steve McNamara talking to ITV London about the impact of the pandemic and state of the trade, and the need to end damaging road closures to get London moving!

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  “Watch our General Secretary, Steve McNamara talking to ITV London about the impact of the pandemic and state of the trade, and the need to end damaging road closures to get London moving!”

• Sep 2020

  Steve McNamara on BBC News discussing importance of financial support for the cab trade and challenges drivers face.

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  “Steve McNamara on BBC News discussing importance of financial support for the cab trade and challenges drivers face.”

• Sep 2020

  Steve McNamara on BBC London News highlighting the negative impact of the closure of Bishopsgate and roads across London for the cab trade.

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  “Steve McNamara on BBC London News highlighting the negative impact of the closure of Bishopsgate and roads across London for the cab trade.”

Associated links:

Letter to Deputy Mayor Heidi Alexander on travel guidance

LTDA Steve McNamara Letter to the Chancellor on SEISS