UPDATE: London's Safety in Jeopardy, as PH signage Bought For A Couple Of Pounds.

Breaking new:

Helen Chapman has today contacted Jim Thomas, ranks and highways officer of the UCG, with the news that LTPH have spoken to the seller of the Pre-Booked stickers and he is taking down the sale page. He said he will return all stickers in his possession to TfL. Ms Chapman also said that eBay had been spoken to and they promised, in future, to keep a look out this this type of sale and contact LTPH.


The Anderson Shelter would like to thank Helen Chapman for her quick response in the matter which she has bought to a satisfactory conclusion.


With the introduction of the ID badges in all London Licensed Taxis, the trade has been seen to get its own house in order. Now its time for LTPH/TfL to sort out PH signage. We are told by Ms Chapman that the PH trade is set to have new signage, but this has not been finalised or agreed and will not come into effect until early 2013.
Helen, that's not good enough.


We would take this opportunity to ask drivers to be on the lookout for suspicious PHV's.
If you have any doubts as to the authenticity of any PHV, take down the number plate and put into the TfL PH web-checker (available on smart phones). If it returns (0 records found), then report to TfL on the same site. 


We would like to see LTPH deal with this serious breach of security, with the same enthusiastic response as previously seen with the cloned Taxi Bills .


When the first car bomb goes bang, outside a London club and the emergency services are picking body parts off the pavement, all fingers will be pointed at Palestra and heads will roll.