Damn taxi's

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compo

Veteran
Location
Harlow
This morning I was cycling on a fairly narrow road, one lane each way. A car was parked half on the pavement and half on the road on my side. A car was coming the other way towards me and I heard a vehicle behind me slow down as I signalled to pull out to pass the parked car. The approaching car I were destined to meet adjacent to the parked car, and just as I pulled out to go past the idiot behind me decided to accelerate past me. In line abreast was half a parked car, me, a taxi and the car coming the other way. The taxi was so close I am sure I had no more than an inch or so clearance. Normally I just let such such incidents go and forget about them, but I know the firm this driver works for. My wife's daughter is married to a director of the firm so a word in the right ear might hopefully be fruitful.
 

Andrew_Culture

Internet Marketing bod
Taxi drivers have a responsibility to carry their passengers in a safe manner. A taxi driver stopped and tried to start a fight with a very ill looking friend of mine in the middle of the busy junction outside the Manor Ballroom in Ipswich once (he thought my mate had lobbed a beer mat at his car, which he hadn't, my wife had). My dad used to have a nodding familiarity with a local taxi licencer and told me any road incident involving a taxi needs to be reported as (in his words) 'Taxi drivers are responsible for carting vulnerable people all over the shop, so they need to be calm, well natured folk'.
 
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compo

compo

Veteran
Location
Harlow
I think my step-son-in-law will be more effective than the Cab Office.

What tickles me is that it was only a short while ago that I posted somewhere on here that as nothing interesting ever happens that I have stopped using my camera on the bike. Sod's law :angry:
 
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