http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: taxi - Recent Topics en Mon, 18 May 2026 18:10:42 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12087#post-140534 Wed, 22 Jan 2014 14:00:37 +0000 Radgeworks 140534@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>So, after about 6 weeks of waiting for the taxi's that are parking illegally on the junction of Rosebery Crescent and Haymarket Terrace to get moved on for breaking the law....., i then rang the council 7th Jan to ask them to "enforce" the 3 different no parking no loading no stopping signs there, for taxi drivers who are parking on the double yellow lines, obscuring line of sight for anyone trying to see the oncoming vehicles, and also forcing traffic round them at a dangerous angle.<br /> No change after 8 days, i rang them again and repeated the story, no change again after a week so i rang them again yesterday and spoke to a nice Scottish lady in the parking enforcement section.<br /> She basically told me theres very little they can do. Great news isnt it.<br /> So from what i gather from the council, "we" all just have to get used to it basically, i thought it would be helpful to share this with everyone.<br /> As when the now {sadly likely} inevitable accident occurs there, I want to say i tried to prevent it, and also I told you so to the council. RJ </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8654#post-87526 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:50:26 +0000 kaputnik 87526@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19927400"><em>Manganese Bronze, maker of the London cab, has suspended sales of its taxis and recalled 400... [over] peculiar steering characteristics</em>.</a></p> <p>I think they'll find that's called "the driver".</p> <p>Oh ho ho...</p> <p>Anyway, I'll find that story so much more ironic the next time I'm faced with some taxi driving muppetry or punishment passery. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1778#post-17553 Fri, 26 Nov 2010 20:34:13 +0000 Greenroofer 17553@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Coming home last night in a taxi down Calder Road, in rush hour conditions that Cyclestreets would describe as hostile. In conversation with the driver who said he would never cycle in those conditions (I tend to agree!). I said that the key was confidence,</p> <p>At that moment we spotted up ahead a chap on a bike who was heading in to town on a well-lit bike, highly reflective and doing everything by the book. He took the middle of the bus lane, he took the middle of the roundabouts and generally (while going hell for leather) showed us how to cycle confidently in really unpleasant conditions.</p> <p>My taxi got stuck behind him on the greenway: we couldn't overtake because of all the traffic beside us and he quite rightly wasn't letting us past, so trundled along at his 20mph or so. I asked the driver what he thought of this.</p> <p>Here's the point of this post. The taxi driver said two really interesting things. Firstly that he didn't mind bikes at all so long as they were decisive and confident so he could tell what they were doing, and secondly that what he disliked most was when they jinked through the traffic so he didn't know where they were and appeared on his left and then his right and so on.</p> <p>It was interesting hearing his point of view, as it's not normally featured here... </p>