I Worked During London's BIGGEST Tube Strike!
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- Опубліковано 21 кві 2022
- With most tube lines being shut, I decide to get to work!
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I’m a lorry driver in London all day everyday…. In and out and I appreciate you cabbies so much. I’ll be sitting at lights and I’m always asking questions about my routes around town to all kinds of cabbies and they are always really really helpful. So thanks Tom hopefully we can meet on the road soon
I'd be interested in seeing the final fare for each ride. Would be a nice addition
@@DB-jb7jn not true, hes allowed to say the fare prices
@@DB-jb7jn no he wasn't. He just chose not to include it anymore in the video.
I think thats whats missing from his videos too.
@@DB-jb7jn TFL have nothing to do with Tom sharing the price with the viewers, it’s probably more to do with other cab drivers complaining to him
Tax man might be watching mate
I love the fact you know the knowledge so well it amazes people who don't know London you do a fantastic job with all these changes and traffic
Tom, I really like the format of these videos. The switch between dashcam and dry-wipe marker on the A-Z map - it really works. Thank you - really love these.
I can answer the Peerless street naming question. It was named after a spring that filled a dangerous pond, which due to youths drowning in it, was called ‘perilous pond’. It later became a swimming pool, and the name changed to ‘Peerless pool’, as in ‘unrivalled’. My source: I used to work in local archives and they have a lot of material on this.
That's a much better way to remember it, thank you 😊
Love what you said about people walking when they would normally be underground. I only visit London once or twice a year but since my wife has started needing a wheelchair, we have walked a lot of places instead of jumping on the tube. We've found lovely side streets and coffee shops and music shops that we'd never have known about if we'd simply dived underground.
The history of Peerless Street is an interesting one. In 1743, William Kemp, a jeweller, converted the pond to a luxury swimming bath with a well-stocked fish pond next to it. The path alongside the bath was called Peerless Row and later became Peerless Street. The pool was closed in 1850 and then built over
Fantastic! Love this, thank you 🙏🏻
@@TomtheTaxiDriver No worries,really enjoy the content 👍
And he called his baths "Peerless" because it was "without peer": i.e. had no equal. It was an advertising slogan!
The pond itself originated from an overflowing spring also, adding even more history.
@@broadsword6650 You actually explained the origin of Peerless. I think James misread the assignment!
Watching you draw black lines on a London map is so relaxing. I've never been to London. I don't know any of these places. I still enjoy it
You're obviously not the actor, are you?
@@pauljordan4452 If I tell you I'm not, am I acting?
I really enjoy the way you have taken your videos recently. Showing the journey, with the added bit with the map. Excellent!
Thank You...really enjoyed that...Appreciate your skill and patience in the way you handle your profession..
and life in general.
Hey Tom, my dad drives a black cap. And your videos have made me found a new found love and respect for my dad. Thanks for the videos mate!
Cheers! Be lucky mate!
Tom your knowledge and experience is a fantastic journey for us Northerners. Great video and I don't know how you remember all the streets. Some sort of gift I think.
Great video mate! I am a cab driver myself in Amsterdan. Although London is bigger than Amsterdam, I do see a lot of similarities and can totally relate to the things you are experiencing. Love it!
Tom these videos are fantastic, thanks for takin the time to make these episodes
Wow massive respect for you for driving in London and for your chosen profession.
Thank you 🙌
Loved the final trips during the night when London was a little quieter, the music fit perfectly. I would absolutely watch a long video of just these late night jobs just for the vibes.
Tom mate these vids are so good! What knowledge you have of the city, deserve every fare you get.
Having worked in London for 12 years and living on Prescot Street/Leman Street for 3 years, It's super fun to watch areas I recognise. Great Knowledge Tom. Fingers crossed you're my cabbie next time I'm in the city.
Another brilliant video, as ever! I could watch these all day long. All the best 😊
I have no idea how you stay so cool, I worked Manchester black cabs for about 10 years, I felt permanently stressed and under pressure and was guilty of chasing the money.
When I did my accounts for the last year I worked, i was actually making less than minimum wage for the hours I was working.
That was my time to get out
I was travelling throughout London on the day of the tube strikes and it was just much less inconvenient and slower, really do rely on the tube in London
The cost of living is going up, people need a proper wage. I’m just thinking tube drivers are going to be some of the first jobs taken by tfl robots 🤖.
the unions are powerful, those dudes are getting paid a lot of money
As they should be, sadly we won't progress as a nation if we are held to ransom be unions. Nobody wins in these scenarios, we had it in the 70s and all the workers acheived was running the companies into the ground and losing their jobs instead of just taking a pay cut.
@@Ze-Germanzuk All those little fringe benefits we all receive, sick pay, holiday pay, etc are brought about by centuries of unions past and present working for the working class. Corporations lobbying
politicians to keep us in line no thanks.
@@Ze-Germanzuk keep on "taking pay cuts" could turn a livable situation for a worker into one where the worker has to choose between paying rent or being able to eat. Meanwhile managers, directors and the likes keeps on getting bonusses and the companies earning major profits.
Not to mention that everything is getting more expensive, taking pay cuts is not a luxury most of the working class can afford.
Sorry to say, but your solution won't be a progress for a nation when more of its population ends up in poverty.
@@DarkDutch007 you can smell these daily mail victims a mile off.
You deserve alot more subscribers and support, this is brilliant 👏🏾
Great informative vid as always. Amazed at your ability and knowledge!!
Nice video! Traffic was crazy those days. Funny thing you passed by my office building in St. John's. Keep up the great videos mate.
Hey Tom
Absolutely love your life report as a London cabbie.
I got my badge in 1989 after starting the knowledge in 1985.
What different times they were compared to now.
Im now retired but what memories,
30 years of pushing a sherbet. Good Times /hard times.
Would love to talk to you documenting the 'old days'
History.
Be lucky.
Awesome videos Tom.....really like the marker on the map....gives a real sense of where you are going 👌
I gave Mornington Crescent a big cheer! Nice to see you drive past Sicilian Avenue early in your shift. We went to see that a few weeks ago
All the times I've watched your videos.. I NEVER realised your cab is electric 🤣👍
Been waiting for these videos. The best content 👍
these videos are so addictive. once i start watching one i cant stop. it's like eating pringles; once you pop you cant stop
Cracking vid as ever Tom, keep them coming!
Hey, this helps us as Coach Drivers in London 😂 when traffic or too much delays, asking cabbies like Tom for alternatives which are really helpful! 😊
Great upload and insight Tom, thankyou.
when i head to work i go on TFL Traffic Jam. It shows cameras all over London. You can see what areas are becoming busy. Really handy tool!
Really enjoy these shift videos. Takes a fair bit of self-discipline to knock back what must have been a £100 job!
The excellent use of the film :) The funny thing is the main character ended up getting that exact run on one of his first hires after getting the badge
Top job Tom. You certainly know your stuff 😊
Tom, another interesting insight into a day in your work "life"
Nice map work.
without actually knowing all the street names I drive down, I can see that it's a similar way of thinking for me in EMS, how I'll get from a scene to the hospital or back to the station: which route to take depending on traffic loads at certain times of the day, avoiding some places, sneaking through some side roads - and in terms of me working in EMS, also finding a rather comfortable route which isn't too bumpy
Amazing video as always mate
Proper honest taxi driver. Of late… just feel I’ve run into a bit of bad luck with taxis. Always want cash in hand and sometimes refuse the ride or the machine is broken.
Well it’s illegal to refuse card payments so take their badge number and report
Just started the knowledge and I’m loving you’re videos Tom keep them coming 👍🏻
Good work! Be safe out there!
Nice to see you charging the cab. You should do the series or a video on running/charging costs. Do you ever have to use the REX etc
Amazing video again mate!
Watching this video as I head to London on the train. Hopefully I will pick you up at some point over the weekend.
From now on, I am going to be getting a hackney carriage instead of any app based ride service.
Thanks Tom really enjoyed that
I really love that two separate commenters knew different, but equally interesting facts about the naming and history of Peerless Street, so I could just scroll down and get a super satisfying answer all in one.
First channel I have seen showing a taxi driver's perspective, interesting vid 👍
"not that anybody has ever *wanted* to go from manor house station to gibson square" lol it makes me want to go to manor house station and hail a taxi and ask for "gibson square please" just to take the p1ss. or do it the other way round. pick up gibson square, set down at manor house
I’m tempted to try it for a video haha!
5:45 "not that anybody has ever wanted to go from Manor House to Gibson Square ..." 🤣🤣🤣
Another Aston Martin Cygnet at 17:09! You are the king of finding these. 😛
Top video as usual Tom!
Great Video Man!
I don't get to London often and when I do rarely take a cab; years since I last hailed one. But I've been dipping into and enjoying your channel for a few months now. On my recent birthday (not a tube strike), the wife and I went into town for a day out. We took two cab rides where we'd normally have taken the tube or walked. Call it 'paying it forward'.
I'm in awe of your geographical knowledge and tip my hat for the time, effort and ££ you invested in acquiring it and your professionalism in using it. Every success. Try not to hit anything.
Thank you Mark! It’s one of my aims of the channel to dispel old myths and get people in taxis 🙌🏻
@@TomtheTaxiDriver Works for me :-)
Everything about Hackney and places East are a complete nightmare - totally agree. Keep west and Southwest! 👍😂
The amount of knowledge in a taxi drivers noggin sets you up for life XD all those roads lmao 🤣
Another good video tom hope the trade in London Is picking up for u guys again.
Great video as always. Tom, have you considered making a Patreon with more behind the scenes footage or bonus footage for those willing to throw a few pounds your way?
Peerless street actually came from Sir Benedict Peerless, the architect of the now demolished la belles building in Moorgate
Tom has mastered being a taxi driver, different gravy. He holds a live interactive map of london in his head and can smell traffic from a mile away with his window open.
Agree about navigating around hackney - I would’ve just gone old street to Hackney road L queensbridge . Also with no 1 Blackfriars not sure if legal I went embankment up the slip to new bridge street and there’s a small gap in the road where you can do R onto Blackfriars bridge
Love London. great video 🤛
this tube strike messed me up big time, london was an absolute shambles, really showed how dependent london is on the tube. i had a concert in london on the first strike day so headed down, i ended up all in all, spending £50 in taxi fares
I love this channel!
Good to see you drinking your lunch outside the School of Pharmacy - drank many meals in the common room in there
sorry if this has been asked/ answered , in the video you charged your cab , how long does it take to charge , or was it a case of a little top up . great video
Had Andrew Marr in my cab a few weeks back. Lovely fella and big supporter of the cab trade.
Missed by one cab getting a hail from him, top bloke!
3:00 Yay, you get to be a Secret Agent again. Although Ethan Hunt doesn't need to deal with traffic
I'm always impressed how you manage to mentally work out where you take your passengers.
They've remodelled Aldwych round Bush House?
That explains why my SatNav was trying to take me around what I thought was the wrong way
I was in an the moorfields eye hospital archive Monday morning and the archivist told me it came from the derived from the "fearless" boys who played in the areas ponds?!
Navigating Bank you make it sound like you're going on a Bear Hunt 🤣
Thank You Tom The Taxi Driver.
I was in London during that tube strike, did a lot of walking.
If the whole of the London bus network went on strike, it would be manic, the tube themselves could cope but the stations wouldn't be able to, they would need to close stations to prevent overcrowding.
Glad these type videos are back. What was the reason you're allowed again?
Omg I went to London during this strike for a couple of days away and it was absolutely bedlam on the buses
Please could you mention the landmarks you pass, love the history stuff and random trivia.
I'm trying to learn the roads through your videos.
The Knowledge was really a good film. It's how I first found out about "the Knowledge".
Really good video mate but it’s made me think about the fact I never want to drive in that city
I might one day, for a laugh try and hail a taxi from Manor House Station to Gibson Square.
You should come to Dublin and work as a taxi because our transport is more messed up always then London
Great videos Tom - what film or programme is the Manor House station to Gibson Square clip from?
The Knowledge film, well worth a watch!
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I am a subscriber and you are a bloody human computer. Watching you, it's easy to see why Uber is the second choice. Your choices are so fluid depending on the time of day and what's happening on roads you aren't even on. If or when I need a black cab, I hope it's you. If not, I know I am safe in the knowledge the driver has done the knoweldge
Yea that’s the great thing with The Knowledge, every driver has it! And I’m sure there’s drivers out there with much more intricate knowledge that me!
Love your vids Tom so informative with your diagrams , its so educational, yet you keep your cabbie backruns so secret so glad you learnt the knowledge, so lazy ppl like me can get about 😆👍
Lancaster gate brings back memories as i used to stay at the merchant navy hotel and yes I'm an old sod
You do realise this is setting me up for the Knowledge Test, Lol
How often are you reconsidering your routes if there are protests on in London to? Whether they be planned or spontaneous
Tom if I booked one on your tours I'd love for you if you'd want to! Is possibly film it so people can get a idea of the tour! I don't mind being on camera if you wanted to and been a fan for a few months now!
What famous people have you picked up and what's the biggest tip have you been given
Absolutely hooked on your videos
Thai may sound like a stupid question.
But seen as when you become a driver you have to take a LONDON knowledge test would I still have to take this if I wanted to be a hackney carriage driver in Manchester?
Brilliant video Tom. How many miles do you average on a typical shift?
Why is this highlighted but with no answer? 🤣
Do you only get paid by distance? Here in sweden the price is based on both distance and time.
I never heard Somers Town. I was thinking you will be going to Summerstown lol
Those were all trips of the day or you cut out some? How much did you do?
What film you put on the A-Z London map?
Is there a bulletin of alterations to the road network of London that lets taxi drivers keep track of them?
@@PatheticTV : And which newspaper would that be, the SCMP?
Was just wondering like google maps is there taxi maps ? Tells you all taxi routes in London
I am living in Oxford, and going to London with OxfordTube few times a year to discover another parts of capital. I wish i would get a ride with you, as u seem to be cosiderate, knowledgable person who would be able to speak about a bit more than just "ach man its nice and sunny today" "yea man innit" (bear in mind thats just a banter, i know all you drivers had all type of conversations already every day, so i try to not speak a word unless the tired driver is wiling to have a chat.)
Have you ever been to becks cafe in red lion st its a big cabbie stop?
Been a few times, big portions 👍🏻