{"id":17347,"date":"2019-02-15T14:02:32","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T14:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=17347"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:57:41","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:57:41","slug":"unite-sadiq-khan-black-cab-decomissioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=17347","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;On the right road&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Black cab drivers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 union Unite praised mayor of London Sadiq Kahn for listening and acting after he announced a revised \u00c2\u014142m package for the capital\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s diesel taxi decommissioning scheme.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Transport for London (TfL) and the mayor had initially pledged \u00c2\u014118 million to help switch London\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s black cab fleet to electric in December of last year, leading Unite to warn that it was not ambitious enough and could lead to the capital\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s black cab drivers holding onto diesel taxis for longer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bMore of the capital\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s black cab drivers will now be able to make the switch to electric thanks to today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s commitment from the mayor of London Sadiq Khan,&#8221; said Jim Kelly from Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s London cab section.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe mayor has clearly listened to the concerns drivers had about his and TfL\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s original proposals,&#8221; he added. &#8220;We now have a revised package that puts London\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cab drivers on the right road in playing their part to help clean up the capital\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s air.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite looks forward to working with TfL and the mayor in taking the diesel taxi decommissioning scheme forward in the coming weeks and months ahead.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black cab drivers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 union Unite praised mayor of London Sadiq Kahn for listening and acting after he announced a revised \u00c2\u014142m package for the capital\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s diesel taxi decommissioning scheme. &nbsp; Transport for London (TfL) and the mayor had initially pledged \u00c2\u014118 million to help switch London\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s black cab fleet to electric in December of last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[114,33],"wps_subtitle":"Unite praises London Mayor Sadiq Khan for taxi decommissioning rethink","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25523,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17347\/revisions\/25523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}