On Tue, 03 May 2011 16:07:26 +0100
Basil Jet wrote:
There are exemptions in the Highway Code permitting black cabs and
minicabs stopping wherever they bloody like

No, there aren't - any taxi picking up on zigzags is likely to be busted
- but taxis and minicabs are explicitly allowed to stop on red routes.

Someones sarcasm detector is broken today.

B2003

Minicabs - otherwise known as Private Hire Vehicles - are allowed to stop on red routes only if they are displaying what TfL calls a "roundel". If they do not have a "roundel" on both front and rear windscreens, they have no special exemption. A "roundel" is a circular blue and white badge.

On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 04:07:26PM +0100, Basil Jet wrote:
On 2011\05\03 15:13, Mr. Benn wrote:
and for using their horns at
10 o'clock at night in residential areas.
I've never heard a taxi do that, but minicabs do that habitually despite
having no exemption.

Not round where I live they don't. But then, where I live, we have
mobile phones. Perhaps you live in some part of ruralistan which has no
functioning network.

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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed
(and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an
endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary" -- H. L. Mencken

On 03/05/2011 14:56, 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?

B2003

Do you know what a taxi is for?

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

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.

On Tue, 03 May 2011 19:36:02 +0100
JNugent wrote:
On 03/05/2011 14:56, 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?

B2003

Do you know what a taxi is for?

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?

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.

B2003

On 04/05/2011 09:33, d wrote:

wrote:
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?

On Wed, 04 May 2011 13:35:58 +0100
JNugent wrote:
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?

I think I'll keep your post as one of the best examples of ****wittedness
I've read this year.

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?

QED.

B2003

On 04/05/2011 13:47, d wrote:

wrote:

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?

I think I'll keep your post as one of the best examples of ****wittedness
I've read this year.

You do yourself a great disservice. I could never compete with someone who
recognises a taxi when he sees one but doesn't know what it is, what it does
or that it might stop.

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?

QED.

Do you know what that actually means?

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On Tue, 03 May 2011 19:36:02 +0100
JNugent wrote:
On 03/05/2011 14:56, 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?

B2003

Do you know what a taxi is for?

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?

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.

B2003

Cap?

On 2011-05-04, d wrote:
....
Passengers are capable of walking an extra 10 metres if the cap stops up
the road in a safe position.

B2003


Not all of them!

E.