They are a long way from home - if you consider their home to be London! However, a company who imports cars from around the world has also imported 200 London Cabs aka Black Cabs. These cars will work the streets of Sydney. The taxi industry in most cities is now under threat from a variety of sources - mostly “ride sharing” systems that aren’t really ride sharing and from … [Read more...]
2017 RACA Tour
Late last year, I had the pleasure of being asked to help organise the inaugural Royal Automobile Club of Australia (RACA) Tour which we ran last weekend (at the end of April). The idea is to make the event an annual one that hopefully will grow as more members join us on a jaunt out of Sydney to somewhere interesting with events that make the attendees think about their cars … [Read more...]
Victoria beats NSW in Ride Sharing Plans
I recently wrote about the need for the NSW Government to overhaul the taxi licencing schemes in light of new entrants in the personal transport marketplace. I wrote it after seeing a very poor piece of Government advertising that suggested that ride sharing was illegal, when in fact it sits in a loophole of legislation. Victoria has taken a step forward in realising that … [Read more...]
Australian Heat Wave
If you have been reading the newspapers or reading articles on the Internet you may have heard that the east side of Australia has had a heat wave which unfortunately resulted in many homes being lost in out-of-control fires. On Saturday, I did a run out over the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, for a reconnaissance for a club run in a few months. I was heading out through … [Read more...]
King Canute Should Run the NSW Government!
I was out for a walk the other day and I saw this advertisement on a bus shelter: As King Canute pointed out to his courtiers, it is impossible to stop a tide - it is controlled by a higher entity! The tide in this case is ride sharing services. I was quite amazed that the Government would display such a bad message - hire cars are not illegal because they are … [Read more...]