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Old May 4th 11, 12:35 PM posted to uk.rec.driving,uk.transport.london
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Default Black cab highway code
On 04/05/2011 09:33, d wrote:

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d wrote:

I'm guessing there isn't one. Or they're exempt. Otherwise how can a black
cab stop halfway across a signalled junction in the middle of the road, on a
corner, on double red lines in central london, blocking the traffic behind to
pick up a passenger and some plods in a van nearby do absolutely bugger all?

Do you know what a taxi is for?

Apparently you don't.

I take it you don't complain when a bus stops at a bus-stop?

Bus stops arn't generally sighted on corners in the middle of a traffic
light controlled junction are they you brainless ****wit?

Buses stop where they stop (which frequently *is* at or very close to road
junctions). Taxis stop where they stop. If you don't understand that a taxi
might stop to pick up a passenger or drop one off, should you be trusted with
a driving licence?

The whole world is a taxi-driver's taxi-stop (or at least, that bit of it
which is within his licensed area). Stopping to pick passengers up is what
taxis do.

Passengers are capable of walking an extra 10 metres if the cap stops up
the road in a safe position.

Why should they have to?
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