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Sunday, 31 January 2016

The Guardian

• London's black-cab drivers: 'Four cabbies pay more tax than Uber'Licensed Taxi Drivers Association weighs up court action claiming app’s licence should be reviewed over its corporation tax payments
• Cheap cab ride? You must have missed Uber’s true cost | Evgeny MorozovWhen tech giants such as Google and Uber hide their wealth from taxation, they make it harder for us to use technology to improve servicesTo understand why we see so few genuine alternatives to US technology giants, it’s instructive to compare the fate of a company like Uber – valued at more than $62.5bn (£44bn) – and that of Kutsuplus, an innovative Finnish startup forced to shut down late last year.Kutsuplus’s aspiration was to be the Uber of public transport: it operated a network of minibuses that would pick up and drop passengers anywhere in Helsinki, with smartphones, algorithm...

Daily Record

• Transport Minister Derek Mackay hails impact of average speed cameras on the A9 Since the introduction of the speeding measures and a test 50mph lorry speed in October 2014, accidents have been cut by nearly 60% on some stretches – and by nearly 45% between Perth and Inverness.

London Evening Standard

• Row over plan for compulsory glass panels in lorry doors to protect cyclistsLorry drivers have hit out at plans for a compulsory second window in lorry doors in a bid to reduce crashes.

Other Regional Press

• Campaigners call for rail link construction lorries to be rerouted VILLAGERS in North Oxfordshire have warned their home will become a rat-run if thousands of lorries are allowed to drive through every week as part of the HS2 project.
• Transport minister rejects “self-confessed speeder’s” A9 camera criticismA fresh war of words has erupted over A9 average speed cameras after Scotland’s transport minister Derek Mackay dismissed their staunchest critic as a “self-confessed speeder”.