: ' rickshaws'
In the slow lane
The meticulous planning by LOCOG to allow the Olympic family unimpeded travel around London could be put in jeopardy by rickshaws. Cabbies must feel a sense of schadenfreude as their two biggest gripes – rickshaws and [...]
Turf Wars
Oh, the farmer and the cowman should be friends. These were the lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II for the musical Oklahoma! And one would think by the rhetoric surrounding the pedicab/licensed taxi debate that a turf [...]
Chinese Takeaways – Second Helpings
Be it Boris; Ken; Bikes; or Cabbies, nothing it seems polarises Londoner’s opinion more than rickshaws. When last writing about these three-wheeled wonders I received more comments than for almost any other subject. So at the [...]
Groundhog Day
As you go about your busy lives, you might be forgiven to having missed this important date, for today is Groundhog Day. The day, according to American folklore that if a groundhog emerging from its burrow [...]
Chinese Takeaways
his blog tries very hard to avoid profanity and believe me sometimes it is tested to its very limits. But these f***ing rickshaws are now all over London. What started out as harmless fun pedalling the odd [...]
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What I’m Reading
London Under by Peter Ackroyd
This is not just about the Underground, London Under is an atmospheric, imaginative introduction to everything that goes on under London, from original springs and streams to Roman amphitheatres and Victorian sewers.
Metro
The people at the Metro have asked me to give my views about London
Radio Taxis
Find out about what London cabbies think of working in their city
Urban philistines
It is tempting to wring one's hands over what one sees as evidence of
A blinking nuisance
Blimey! I didn't know that. I really can't remember a time when they d
A blinking nuisance
Try to keep Percy calm, with the start of spring he might want to take
A blinking nuisance
Belisha Beacons did not originally flash. The first beacons were insta
A blinking nuisance
I've just come back from lunch via the 2nd worst crossing on the list.