Neil Williams wrote:
On Feb 26, 2:03 pm, "Basil Jet"
wrote:

Taxis need to be hailable on red routes - without that, London would
become, in tourists' eyes, the only city in the world where the
taxis would always sail past and never pick you up. The huge number
of one-way roads and banned turns mean that a taxi pulling around a
corner from a red route to pick someone up might be putting the fare
up by a fiver - it would significantly reducing the capacity of the
fleet to carry people home at busy times. Taxis setting down on red
routes is harder to justify.

Agreed to some extent, as setting down is so much slower as there is a
financial transaction to perform. Another way of reducing the impact
of this might perhaps be for taxis to accept Oyster PAYG?

That'd work well - as long as the card has enough cash loaded for those
journeys from Heathrow discussed up thread, with some change left over.

£100 should do it...

Paul S