As any cab driver will tell you, there was a time over the summer when it seemed that there was a new Taxi booking app appearing every week. Although some seemed to disappear as quickly as they appeared, there are 5 or 6 that seem to be making a reasonable stab at getting properly off [...]
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The Great Taxi App Race
Posted in Cab Rant on October 23, 2011 | 9 Comments »
I blame the bloomin’ Beatles
Posted in Cab Rant on February 5, 2011 | 5 Comments »
I mean, there can’t have been THAT many ZEBRA CROSSINGS back when this photo was taken. The intervening years have seen our great city afflicted by what can only be described as an epidemic of ZEBRA CROSSINGS. Pedestrians continue to insist on walking around the city, often forming themselves into herds of marauding sheep, and [...]
I say top, you say bottom – let’s call the whole thing off….
Posted in Cab Rant on January 21, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Let me tell you a cab trade secret. Cab drivers don’t know EVERY street in London, there are over 20,000 for gawd’s sake, you could never learn them all. And even when you’ve learned all the ones you need to get you through The Knowledge, you slowly forget some of them too. Then there is [...]
you can never have enough statues….
Posted in Cab Rant, Loving London, Useless London on July 1, 2009 | 3 Comments »
….or, if I was in a Monty Python mood; just one more wafer thin statue. I’ve included the notes I had to write just now to help myself make sense of what I’d seen and tried to record yesterday; the inordinate number of statues in Parliament Square. Not content with the 7 statues that were [...]
I say it best, when I say nothing at all……
Posted in Cab Rant on May 1, 2009 | 11 Comments »
…….to paraphrase the mighty Ronan Keating. Just to clarify, he isn’t mighty, I just used that phrase as an opening gambit – a way of introducing a post that will really be about bugger all. Like Ronan Keating’s career in fact. This blog has been a pleasure to write from day one and stuff has [...]
told off – by Big Brother 8′s Carole
Posted in Cab Rant, Working Day on April 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I often view life as a cab driver as a series of skirmishes in life’s great battle. Cut up by a bus here, abused by a white van man there; but make sure you give as good as you get. Someone nearly drives into your precious cab? I’m not just going to sail on serenely [...]
I don’t do numbers……..
Posted in Cab Rant on March 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Please hail my cab, get me to take you somewhere in that there London, I’ll go north, south, east or west, I’m not fussy. Tell me you what Harrods, Le Gavroche, Paddington Station, even, god forbid, Victoria Coach Station. But do make sure you actually tell me where you want to go. Be specific. “Hampstead [...]
taxi tweets
Posted in Cab Rant on February 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The more observant amongst you, or those friends that I have bored on the subject, will have seen over there —> on the right that I Twitter. If you so wish you can follow my every move, particularly on a Friday when I try and tweet every job I do in the cab. Some of [...]
cab drivers guide to driving in the big smoke
Posted in Cab Rant on February 24, 2009 | 7 Comments »
It must have taken less than a mile of driving, and certainly no more than 10 minutes from leaving home, before I encountered my first example of mad London driving yesterday. Trying to turn right onto Balham High Road from one of the Hever Estate roads, a youngish chap in a Ford Focus decided to [...]
power to the cabbies….
Posted in Cab Rant on February 6, 2009 | 6 Comments »
….power to the cabbies, right on. I think John Lennon would have been a good cabbie, having a sharp tongue and being a bit bolshie are essential cabbie traits in my book. I’m not going to bore you with the ins & outs of what it was all about but do want to have a [...]
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