9000airportcars - Balham taxi: London taxis and private hire industry

The history of taxi service in London is back from 1600 and it was the time when the taxi was not a motor vehicle but carriages driven by horses.
Even the horse carriages were not affordable to all the common public as people in contemporary time can use taxi anytime anywhere.
The city of London is one of the oldest city in culture and tradition among all the European cities.
When the horse driven carriages were used for a taxi in past time, people say that animals feed were also transported by the carriages as hired taxi.
Initially, that particular taxi services were city based and intra-city for the continence of the public.

Modern London taxi was started and regulated in 1906 and very luxury cars like Rolls-Royce were also used for taxi.
When the people were given the rights to drive their cars as a taxi then the new regulation was also designed.
All the taxi very licensed and then allowed to drive on the road.
All the safety parameters were taken even at that time to ensure the safety of the Londoners.
As we know that London is an old city that is why the driver was asked to drive the car in very short radius to pass the test. There are many narrow streets in London so it was to ensure that cars can approach there.
Asquith, Fariway and Metrocab were the three cars which were allowed to drive as a taxi in London and the permission was granted by the London Metropolitan.
There was no limit as such for a taxi driver, a driver has spent 75 years of his life as a taxi driver.

I would like to differentiate black cab and minicab before I start to explain the new era of a taxi.
Minicab is booked on call in advance but you can ask for a black cab just by standing beside the road.
The black cab driver is bound to pass the knowledge base test before getting the license for a taxi driver in London.
Minicab and private hire taxi drivers are not given this notice yet to pass the knowledge base test. But the new rules and regulation are underway to bring them in the loop.
Knowledge base test itself is a huge task for a driver to pass because how difficult for a driver to know the about more than 25000 streets and more that 50 thousand locations.

After the arrival of Uber in transport industry in2010, it revolutionised the concept of a taxi.
They introduced an app to book a taxi.
Private hire cars like minicabs were also shifted to the app. It created such an amazing ease for the users.
As Uber came into the market it invited many competitors as well.
So the competition in the market came with a benefit for the users, they got the very reasonable fares for riding.
According to some eye-opening facts, in 2010, there were about 50000 taxi drivers in London. After the Uber invitation in the market this number has risen to more than 90,000.
Only in London, 30,000 times Uber app is downloaded in a week which is used by the individual rider for the first time.

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