Thank you for your comments supporting residents, and women in particular, who have to put up with this behaviour on a daily basis.
I'm the woman who made the film and I'm pleased that so many people shared the video. After a few days, we hit 4,000 views.
I received a call from the local police who arranged for me to visit this no-go area with a female PC to presumably show it was safe.
In fact she was treated with total disrespect and the drivers laughed at her and she had to admit, as other officers have done, that it isn't safe for a woman to visit alone.
After intimidation by the drivers and complaints that they were on YouTube, the PC advised them that they could complain and have the film removed because it identified them (a bit tricky to assault a woman filming you and not reveal your identity).
Aggressive Uber driver from the original footage.
As a result, Youtube took the film down but by then it had received around 7000 views and I have lots of requests to find a way to edit and repost.
As far as I'm aware the police have taken no action against the men - although the local Inspector assured me he would do something before he moves on, having been promoted!
I'm not holding my breath. Our GLA members (Whittle and Kurten) have raised our PHV issues with the London Mayor and lots of emails (& Twitter etc) have been copied to TfL.
Hillingdon Council is currently running a consultation to give it more powers to tackle PHV abuse of our public parks (closes 23rd August).
So thank you everyone, your support is important. While PHV drivers act like scumbags and their colleagues stand back and do nothing to clean up their act, I will keep plugging away. Thanks again.
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Well done Christine, Taxi Leaks will assist you in anyway we can.
If you do have the original footage, you can send it to us by email (taxileaks@mail.com) and we can add it to 7 FaceBook groups with over 18,000 members.
It's scandalous to think that TfL haven't acted to help solve this problem as these aggressors are licensed by them.
Hope you get some satisfaction from the local police inspector, but as you say, I wouldn't hold your breath.
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