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Posted by whenthiswasfields over 2 years ago
Last active over 2 years ago
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I was wondering if any of you nice LbLers could recommend a good taxi firm in Islington. I’m having a baby soon and don’t own a car, and need to find a cab company to take me to the hospital (and actually turn up when they say they will – even in the middle of the night). I could easily look up fir...
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Posted by whenthiswasfields over 2 years ago
Last active over 2 years ago
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One of your contributors mischeviously suggested that we should tell incoming tourists never to tip taxi drivers. Which led me to think… Why do we tip taxi drivers? They’re being paid to get us to our destination, they’ve done it professionally – why should we give them extra money for that p...
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Posted by msflic about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago
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I was once told that the cabs that line up on Long Acre at night have a coloured bit of paper on the dashboard according to where they will go. I only remember seeing orange and green (not South, surprise surprise). Can anyone tell me what the other colours are and what area the colours relate to.
That’s if...
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Posted by dafinki about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago
23 responses
So every driver’s got a TomTom or some other GPS unit these days. This means anyone can become a minicab driver. Am I grumpy and unreasonable or is this not on? I’m so sick of getting in cabs then having to wait while the driver types in the name of my road into his gadget, which he (could be she, I know...
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Posted by flippy about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago
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This has vexed me for a while now. Buses, bicycles, motorbikes (occasionally) and taxis can use bus lanes, supposedly to encourage people to take public, or environmentally sound private transport and save the world. A taxi is arguably worse for the world than one bloke in a car, as it spends a lot of its time drivi...
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Posted by robram about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago
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More and more black cabs are carrying advertising at the moment – OK, so it seems to be a slight dereliction of a wonderful London icon, but it seems a pretty good way to earn some extra revenue.
What I want to know is, why don’t more black cabs do it? Is it because there’s not enough demand yet...
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Posted by pepsy about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago
14 responses
Ok I’ve been building lastrounds.co.uk for about 16months now, so I thought that I should launch it even though its slightly buggy.
The aim of the Last Rounds Project is to promote safe and sensible drinking. It does this by not only listing pub opening times, but also local transport links – last tra...
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Posted by ellie 9 months ago
Last active 8 months ago
34 responses
You may be watching this but if not the London Mayor possibilities are now debating on Newsnight. May be worth a watch to see what they do or don’t say about our fair city and what they will do if governing it.
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Posted 5 months ago 0 responses
Next time you turn down a proffered tête-à-tête with a chirpie cabbie, you could be missing out on a satisfying cultural exchange. Who knows whether your driver is a painter, origami champion or candle-stick maker? Black cab driver Dominic Shannon has spent nine years of his career taking pictures of city life, warts and all. While other cab drivers pass the time by attempting to splash foolhardy tourists standing in close proximity to puddles or collating Magic FM trivia in their enlarged brains, Shannon has made the most of his lofty perch on London’s population by making a visual library of its highs and lows. Now an exhibition of the cabbie’s varied work is being shown in Camden, mixing sun-splashed landscapes, famous landmarks and celebrity spots with a darker side of London, portraying homelessness, physical violence and alcohol and drug addiction. Read More
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