Blogs Posts on "Driven Mad In London"

Let It Be by CabbieBlog on May 15, 2009As a child of the ‘60s I have seen The Beatles in their heyday. My first chance to see them was at the BBC Paris Theatre formerly in Lower Regent Street when they came to London and nobody had heard of the Fab Four outside of Liverpool or Germany.

The London Omnibus by CabbieBlog on Apr 21, 2009Now children get out your Ian Allen I-Spy Bus books and get yourselves down to Oxford Street, you can while away your time counting empty buses as you sit in the 18 hour a day traffic jam caused by these monsters. You could almost walk the entire one...

The road less travelled by CabbieBlog on Mar 31, 2009It has now become the norm for local authorities to close roads for weeks, months and even years on end to allow private developers to get rich quick (well in the current economic climate not quite so quick) to the detriment of council taxpayers and...

“Say Cheese!” by CabbieBlog on Mar 17, 2009There are up to 4.2m CCTV cameras in Britain - about one for every 14 people - making it one of the most watched places on earth. London alone has 10,000 crime-fighting CCTV cameras which cost £200 million. While England has the distinction of ownin...

White Bikes by CabbieBlog on Mar 5, 2009They are becoming a familiar sight alongside many British roads. More than 100 old bicycles painted white and chained to lamp posts and railings have sprung up at ‘danger-spots’ over the past year. Dubbed ‘ghost-bikes’, they have been put the...