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Old July 19th 09, 06:41 AM posted to uk.transport.london,uk.railway,misc.transport.urban-transit
Martin Edwards Martin Edwards is offline
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Default HS1 Domestic trains are a bit busy

Basil Jet wrote:
Martin Edwards wrote:
A kind taxi driver in London, where I am not resident, once told me
the way to the street I needed, which was in walking distance. I
doubt whether the response from a minicab driver would have been the
same.


If he was on the front of a rank which he had taken some time to progress
through, then encouraging you to walk was self-interest rather than
altruism.


He was in slow traffic.