by BEN TAYLOR, Daily Mail,2003 A judge issued an alarming warning to minicab passengers yesterday that they cannot expect to travel in safety. Jailing an asylum seeker for eight years for raping a secretary, Recorder Michael Sayers, QC, said those hiring a private taxi simply had no w...
Mr John Mason the director of taxi and private hire launched Transport for London’s one strike and your out policy for private hire operator’s and drivers. In it he states that Private Hire Drivers must not park or wait illegally outside venues. Well are they plying for hire or not. W...
This years Parade will be on Wednesday, October 31, 2012 7 p.m. All Those in Costume are Welcome to Join Hundreds of Puppets, 53 Bands of Different Types of Music, Dancers and Artists, and Thousands of other New Yorkers in Costumes of their Own Creation in the Nations Most Wildly Cr...
I left the house at around 6pm Friday evening. Porkchop—my girlfriend’s dog—was with me in the cab. I was taking him to stay with friends so I could drive the busy weekend nights without having to go back home to feed and walk him while she was out of town. At 6:30pm, just past Hubbar...
The whole concept of a monarchy is barmy and it is well past the time when ours should have been abandoned. Far from making me feel proud to be British, the Monarch and her dysfunctional family make me squirm with embarrassment. It is a great pity that Oliver Cromwell, having started ...
This blog is not dead. It’s on book leave. After five years, three hemispheres, and a lot of cab rides, I finally get to tell the story behind the story of Taxi Gourmet. Driving Hungry , the book based on this blog, is coming out in 2014 – and it’s the reason I’ve become a lapsed blog...
This blog is not dead. It’s on book leave. After five years, three hemispheres, and a lot of cab rides, I finally get to tell the story behind the story of Taxi Gourmet. Driving Hungry , the book based on this blog, is coming out in 2014 – and it’s the reason I’ve become a lapsed blog...
Consider this scenario: you're waiting on the footpath at night in the City and spot two Vacant cabs approaching, cruising side-by-side in traffic. Normally you'd assume the cab travelling in the kerb lane is yours for the taking. But in these deteriorating economic times it ain't nec...
There’s a thread over on the Forum discussing some of John M’s ideas for fixing the Taxi business, the tenet of John’s argument is that it should be more expensive to operate a taxi, thereby forcing out of the budiness those who are not serious about it. This got me to thinking about ...
On Friday, May 18 in New York State Supreme Court, Metropolitan Taxicab Board of Trade (MTBOT) strengthened its April 18, 2012 complaint against Mayor Bloomberg’s livery street hail and taxi medallion bill, which MTBOT and other plaintiffs have slammed as being “unconstitutional, irre...
Betting exchanges (Peer-to-peer betting) are a no-brainer for Nevada. They alone would save Nevada from the financial muck we find ourselves in. Betting Exchanges would provide thousands of jobs and revenues to do most of the things the idiots in this State whine about day after day. ...
25 May, 2012 at 1:50 pm | Posted in Slug, snail, puppydog tail | Leave a comment Tags: London buildings J. Evans Dairy a Grade II listed building on the corner of Warren Street and Conway Street. Built 1793 and tiles circ. 1916 a rare surviving example of a Welsh dairy. It is a cut th...
This is the follow-up to the articles I posted last week about a few taxicabs driving around New York City, WITHOUT any certification to be picking up passengers in the city. This permit, known to locals as a medallion, is worth up to 1 million dollars! I've shown pictures of these fa...
As he ended his shift on Tuesday at a gas station in Midtown Manhattan, Alderete Faustino, a New York City cabby for 25 years, squinted warily at the receipt that laid out his earnings for the day. He had made $141 in cash fares, plus another $150 from credit cards, for a total of $29...
This years Parade will be on Wednesday, October 31, 2012 7 p.m. All Those in Costume are Welcome to Join Hundreds of Puppets, 53 Bands of Different Types of Music, Dancers and Artists, and Thousands of other New Yorkers in Costumes of their Own Creation in the Nations Most Wildly Cr...
Well I only hope the TV3 program tonight will show an honest and unbiased opinion of what we white drivers have to endure night after night, the uncivilized manner in which taxi ranks have been destroyed by racists that don’t allow white drivers to earn an income to feed their childre...
Whilst exiting the Bridge the volume started flashing over 30 whilst his head drooped in a drunken stupor. The envelope had been pushed and I instantly flicked his hand off the knob and turned it down. “That's enough,” I ordered as he snapped alert in complete surprise. "What?” he whi...
What chance have the public got when all the bars and restaurants in london have a satellite facility operating from them and with all their drivers standing outside on the pavement making it a breeding ground for sexual predators. Chief Inspector Jo Chinn, MPS Safer Transport Cab Enf...
Hailing a cab could get pricier — and soon. The Taxi and Limousine Commission will discuss raising fares up to 20% — the first increase since 2006, its chairman, David Yassky, said Monday. He described the increase as “reasonable.” Cabbies have been lobbying the agency to hike what th...
I pick up a well-heeled couple from the Chicago Brauhaus in Lincoln Square. The gent has an accent I can’t place but it sounds the way rich people on TV sound. He wears a navy-blue sport coat as naturally as I’d wear an old t-shirt. He’s well into his sixties at minimum. His companion...
I pick up a well-heeled couple from the Chicago Brauhaus in Lincoln Square. The gent has an accent I can’t place but it sounds the way rich people on TV sound. He wears a navy-blue sport coat as naturally as I’d wear an old t-shirt. He’s well into his sixties at minimum. His companion...
22 May, 2012 at 1:50 pm | Posted in Driven mad in London | Leave a comment Tags: Highway Code The first Highway Code was published in 1931 and as it was just 18 pages long the publication only cost 1d, on its first page the Ministry of Transport stated that it’s primary aim was to pro...
18 May, 2012 at 11:41 am | Posted in Driven mad in London | Leave a comment Tags: Private Hire According to a London Chamber of Commerce report around 3.2 million people take taxis and minicabs in London each week, even if each fare averages only £10, that means total annual revenues ...
Eigentlich finde ich Geld ja saupraktisch. Trägt nicht so auf in der Tasche und man bekommt üblicherweise fast alles, was man so für’s Leben braucht dafür. Tauschgeschäfte sind also eher selten mein Ding. Kommt aber gar nicht so selten vor. Die nahezu unvermeidlichen Handys, Führersch...
Appointed on the 13th June 2007 (I wonder was it a Friday?) to a term of not less than 3 years and no more than 5 years, having either not being offered, or deciding not to avail of, a second term, Kathleen Doyle is strongly rumored to be leaving her office for good today. Despite her...
“Sorry for not giving you a tip. It’s just because… I’m a cunt! Frei übersetzt: “Entschuldige, daß ich Dir kein Trinkgeld gebe. Ist nur deshalb, weil ich ein umgangssprachliches weibliches Geschlechtsteil bin.” Ich mag sowas! Der Beitrag wurde am Donnerstag 17. Mai 2012 um 01:40 veröf...
Ich versuche grade, daß Taxi-Blog-Projekt des Jahrzehnts anzustoßen. Wenn es was wird, wird es das größte Ding meines Lebens und für Euch wird es ebenfalls toll werden. Versprochen. Sobald ich mehr weiß, werde ich auch mehr dazu schreiben. Bis dahin bitte ich Euch nur darum: Daumen dr...
Check out the BBC’s editorial standards film where some of the above taxi drivers were filmed. When there click on the BBC values & course content overview, top right
15 May, 2012 at 1:50 pm | Posted in Driven mad in London | Leave a comment Tags: road signs On a recent trip to Dorset I was obliged to the local authority for erecting a sign which informed me that the adjacent beach was subject to flooding, it’s always good to know what hazards lay ...
