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Where To? A&E Please Driver And Don't Spare The Horses!
As I stood at the bus stop in the wazzing rain this morning, retaining moisture like a damp spaniel, the mantra, 'Hail a cab, you fool!' attempted to make inroads into my iron will. But maintaining a granite resistance to the voice of transport temptation was surprisingly easy because, dear reader, the news today reports that Boris' latest proposal is to drop bi-annual taxi safety checks.
Admittedly, we at Glitterditch approach life with reckless and raunchy abandon, rather than health and safety fuckwittery. But even our cucumber-cool climbs a centigrade or five when we learn that around a third of black taxis fail this allegedly "unnecessary" test and a whopping 10 per cent of these failures is brake related.
News flash Mr Mayor! We rather like our faces the way they are, thank you very much. No high-speed rearrangement needed. And surely with London overrun with cut-and-shut dodgy cabs (driven in nothing lower than fourth gear at all times and governed by shonky Tom Tom navigation) the Hackney Carriage is the last bastion of safe, affordable and blissfully solo travel.
Perhaps adopting the way of the pushbike, like Johnson himself, is a good shout? Actually, screw that. Recent photos of him sans helmet have cemented our growing suspicion that his sense of road safety has gone permanently AWOL.
Taxi for Boris? We think so.
Image courtesy of 13bobby's photostream on Flickr.
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