Cabbies, who are mainly white, don’t have to pay it. Minicab drivers, who are mainly minorities, do
year minicab drivers turned up to protest outside the offices of Transport for London . “Sadiq Khan, shame on you!” they chanted. “Not the drivers, not the poor, tax the operators more!” The cause of their ire? The mayor’s decision that minicab drivers, including those who use Uber, should join the general public in paying £11.50 a day to drive in the centre of the capital. “We hoped the public-pressure route would work,” explains Jason Moyer-Lee of theunion, which organised the protest.
On July 10th the High Court began to hear its case that the introduction of the charge for minicab drivers is racially discriminatory and breaks the European Convention on Human Rights. As a public body,must obey the Equality Act by avoiding indirect discrimination, which happens when a seemingly neutral rule has a disproportionate impact on a protected group.
Black-cab drivers have little sympathy for their rivals. The number of private-hire drivers in the city has almost doubled since Uber arrived in 2012. “There’s too many of them on the road. Something needs to be done,” complains Miles, as he chomps on a sandwich outside a small green hut, known as a cabmen’s shelter, on the Embankment. The congestion charge was extended to cover minicabs to do just that.
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