Love that you can do your drive videos again, find them a great way to relax, and love the smooth jazz you play, really relaxing. Havn't lived in London for over 18yrs now, so a great way to see the city. Keep up the great work Tom and glad you're back.
@@jakesdiner He said he didn't want to go into detail regarding TfL's initial concerns out of respect for his relationship with TfL. The fact that he is releasing again is I think a sign they found a mutual agremeent. I wouldn't expect him to share any details though.
@@jakesdiner He commented on his first new driving video that the LTDA (his union) liaised with Transport for London to understand what the areas of concern were. In short, the initial letter he received was not a direct concern about him, but rather the safety and privacy implications of filming (like filming members of the public, his safety whilst driving, etc.). I've noticed he doesn't include the voices of his passengers anymore, and like always he won't handle the camera while driving.
40 years' experienced cab driver from Darwin, Australia. Not only do you have "the knowledge" but mate, you also have "the knack". Spent a year working all over London with little money, using buses, underground and shanks' pony to get around - great to traverse the old routes vicariously, but in style this time. Pedestrians, cyclists and escooter riders will never appreciate that they can always stop faster than a motor vehicle. LOve your work and attitude - keep it up - good rides and good luck for the future. Cheers.
Hi Tom, good to see the Royal Albert Hall make an appearance! I'm one of the managers of the stewarding team there and we often get asked about taxis. Being able to reliably tell people that they'll easily be able to hail a black cab from the high street outside is really valuable to the overall customer experience. Cheers to you and all the cabbies out there keeping the city moving 👍
Yeah it's so awesome, but what changed? I thought TFL weren't happy with these kinds of videos, did I miss something? But it's lovely to see this videos back on the channel, they are more than great!
@@FelixNBR I think him and his union came into an agreement or something can't fully remember. I know saw some reason in the comments in o e of his last videos
@@FelixNBR My guess would be that Tom agreed to blur people's faces out (e.g. 7:28) and not upload audio of conversations. Makes sense to be honest. That way, everyone's happy.
Tom, not knowing The Smoke particularly well, apart from the football grounds, to watch your travels around town is both a joy and an education. Thank you and keep posting.
I like this format where you drive and then show your journey on a map. For me this is simple and elegant. Do you have any more like it? Thanks. Greetings from Cold Cornwall!!
It's so strange as a foreigner watching how London is build. The roads are so narrow, and almost never straight, they are bending and winding all over the place xD I wonder if this all goes back to when people walked and most of these roads are just paths than was eventually converted to roads. I definitely get a sort of maze vibe when watching the video.
The large majority of it grew organically as opposed to using a strict planning system where specific designs for streets would be built. Tudors, Stuarts, Georgians, Victorians etc. all contributed to making the built environment look like this today
Very interesting tom. I drive a luton van all over the country but out of all our drivers i enjoy London the most!! It makes me feel alive. Love the channel
Somehow, I remember Marylebone more than Fenchurch Street - mostly because with the c2c trains, I'd guess a lot of people get off at West Ham etc whereas you'd have to go into/from Marylebone for Chiltern trains 🤔
Good to see the driving videos are back, even if a little curtailed compared to the originals, miss the banter and the way you were able to tell us the way live as it were. However liking the map drawing segments showing us on the map the route you are taking as it gives a more detalied view the roads around your route as well as the ones you will be using rather than just saying "head west along so and so road and left into...." keep up the good work.
I would have never thought there was a cabbie twitter! I am from a small city in Canada, who has always read a lot about Britain, so I know about some of these neighbourhoods and places. Really cool to see the routes through the city!
Glad you managed to get these sort of videos past TfL. I really like them. Also makes me wanna do the Knowledge, knowing that in January 2021, there's still a good demand for a black cab.
Best time to do the knowledge if there ever was one! This year will be one hell of a busy one....believe you me. Loving these videos Tom driving the cab....as it is👌🏻
@@framedman Haha I've been making that mistake this whole month! I think it's because 2021 was a bit of a blur with everything that's going on... although better than 2020 tbh
Hyde Park Corner would be solid red for me haha! But yes, would be interesting to see as there's some roads that I never use even if they are fairly central (the very top of Sloane Street for example).
Really enjoyed this tom! Brilliant video. Great to see the streets of London again! Tempting me to jump back on my local circuit. Ive been school running it the last few months! Look forward too the next one buddie!
Great video. Might be worth remembering if you're around East London when the troxy Hall on commercial Road finishes an event, there's so many people after a cab.
Keep em coming Tom these are cracking vlogs love seeing all over London it's one hell of a place, only ever been twice and last time must of been 30 years ago!!!
This really shows why important the knowledge is so good, first of all you don't miss any fares and if there's an incident you can take a different without waiting for the sat nav to pick-up the problem and divert you or you forcing it to take an alternative route (that everyone else with google maps is probably taking)
I could watch these for hours! Love the little mews crossing! I know you have done a few videos on expenses etc, but to go along side your superb black line map, how about a daily running total, gross or net, if not to private. Also Would really love to see the differences between a cabbie in the hey day and now the modern internet age, wonder if you could get a good old boy on to have a little chinwag
Just stumble across your channel Amazing how you remember all those routes I love looking around London and now I've found a great channel to drive around it Great narrative to go with it Thanks
Hi Tom . Love seeing what it’s like for a London cabbie ! I’m a Hackney driver in Glasgow . What’s so noticeable is the difference in the road surface in London to Glasgow ! I bought a tx4 from London last year and wasn’t a rattle . Give it a couple months up here and your shoogling along with loads of rattles because of the potholes ! Keep up the good work .
At 14:06 I think that he done what most of us would do, being to choose the shortest route possible. there was already someone on the zebra crossing so you weren't going anywhere. also in London that hand gesture is usually given as a sign of thanks along with the obvious thumbs up. good content btw
i lived in london and surrey on and off for many years . based in chelsea barracks and caterham in the 70s and early 80s . huge respect for your knowledge . i am now a retired private hire driver on merseyside 25 years . we had to do a knowledge , but nothing anywhere near like london . cab and private hire are so different , but one thing we have in common , the work is never where where you are . lol
A short foray into South West London, maybe next time you'll dive deeper into soth' London. But can appreciate why you stay central as much as you can. Really helpful the way you show your journey's on the map.
Like many others have said, these 'in cab' videos are very relaxing. Unfortunately, the black cab drivers are really suffering here in Glasgow due to the impact of Covid and other factors. You mentioned fuel costs Tom - I thought your cab was fully electric but I'm assuming it's a hybrid? It would be great if you could do a video review of the cab itself as the electric versions are very nice indeed.
You should do a video on how you spot hails. I’m the videos I find it so impressive that you can spot someone in a crowd waving whilst driving in london!
Just a raised arm does it. Sometimes it’s hard as people hail, think you’ve seen them, then put their arm down. I have been caught out by pictures, people hailing buses and there’s even one statue in the city of a guy hailing a cab 😂
Another great vid, love how theraputic these vids are so easy to watch and like how you explain the routes on the map. A random find of your channel but glad it exists. get in there/
Tom, I just happened to stumble on one of your UA-cam videos - and I'm already hooked! I find it so much fun watching how you conduct your job! Great channel +1 Sub 🙂
just discovered this channel today by chance and am instantly addicted to it. liked & subscribed. i'm an investment bank bond trader but in the next life i want to be a taxi driver.
Another enjoyable video, Tom. Keep them coming. As an aside, I assume as part of you posting again you've decided not to show the fares or feature the voices of the passengers?
Hi Tom! First off, congratulations on producing such an interesting and well produced channel - I really enjoy it! Can you just clarify what you meant when you referred to prioritising street work over app work? Does it just mean logging out of the app so you don't receive a pre booked job or do you mean you could accept such a job but send it back if you were subsequently hailed from the street? I used to be a PH driver and it bugged the hell out of me when Hackney drivers would do that as it would delay the customer who might then give me flak!
Just switch the app off. I’ll be on Shaftesbury Avenue and it will be a request in Covent Garden, which at 10pm on a Friday night take 10 minutes to drive to. Makes no sense for app work in central.
I'm really glad you've found a way to do these videos that TFL is satisfied with. I think I actually slightly prefer this format to the one they kicked up a fuss about.
@@jackdavis8786 He had to take down a bunch of videos which had been kind of POV taxi driver videos showing some of his journeys etc. TFL had raised some objections. I did really like those videos, but to be honest I do prefer this new style - feels slightly more professional and a little easier to watch, whilst still being very enjoyable.
Will you start adding in the costs after each ride again please? Also myabe if there is a decent conversation or if someone says something interesting in the cab, instead of having the sound play and worrying about privacy complaints just put subtitles on the screen of what you said and what they said? So happy these videos are back though.
Hey Tom! I used to do exactly the same thing during kipper season. I’d head into Camden and Swiss Cottage for fares and places like Battersea too. I left the trade recently due to TfL’s 12/13/15 age rule making it very hard to make a good living in the cab. Unfortunately TFL post pandemic were completely unhelpful to myself on the 15 year age rule where I had to give up a perfectly healthy cab that should have seen through into its 15th year. As you know TFL moved the goalposts.
passenger gets in and says "clapham common" and tom starts driving towards it, knowing he can finesse the precise destination later.. LOL epic common sense. i lived in singapore and whenever i took a taxi from my office to the airport i'd say "changi airport please" and the cabbie would always say "which terminal?" and i'd think WTF i havent looked at my air ticket yet so just drive towards the damn airport and I'll tell you the damn terminal in a minute cos what difference does it make wen we're still half an hour away? yeesh..
BBC pronouncing dictionary says Marrilebon - it also says Kunduit for Conduit St, etc. Worth trying to get a copy although it’s been out of print for many years.
Seeing that guy cross the road at the end Tom, what are your thoughts about the new hierarchy laws coming in? Have a look at Ashley Neil's channel for a break down from a driving instructor.
Yes, watched his video on this and it's brilliant, he's a great educator! I think it's obscene, I mean London pretty much operates on this principle already, but once pedestrians are aware of the law I think it will be flouted and almost impossible to drive.
Interesting to me how this "new law"-mentioned in other comments here too-seems to have kicked off so much controversy over there. My curiosity piqued, I searched for and watched Ashley Neal's video on the subject and came away... kind of having a laugh at it. 😆 Where I live (Alberta, Canada) it is already the law that pedestrians have the right-of-way at intersections (junctions), and this has been so for decades and decades. In effect at every street corner an "unmarked" crosswalk (crossing) with as much force and effect as a "zebra crossing" exists from corner to corner, and all drivers must yield (give way) to pedestrians. It's meant to make it easier for pedestrians to cross without having to dash across the road whenever they happen to catch a break in the vehicular traffic, and honestly it really doesn't cause chaos here. _Some_ pedestrians brazenly cross the road without looking for cars, shielded by the law saying the cars must stop for them, but it isn't all that common a problem. That said, in denser areas of our most populous cities and on busy roads I think we much more liberally use traffic lights (including pedestrian signals) than in the UK, in part so that the vehicular traffic isn't held hostage to non-stop streams of pedestrian traffic. We also have "jaywalking" laws that make it illegal for pedestrians to cross anywhere _other_ than at marked/unmarked crossings at intersections, so generally drivers don't have to be on the lookout for pedestrians darting out into traffic anywhere and everywhere. Anyway, just thought it was fascinating that you weren't _already_ obliged to stop for pedestrians at junctions, given that we have to over here. Cheers
@@TomtheTaxiDriver just as a side note, I don't think the guy was doing a hand up "stop I'm crossing" sign, I think he put his hand up as like a sorry/thanks sign. At least that's always what I take it to mean when someone does that to me.
Love the upload rate. Really enjoy watching bro. Keep it up. I wanna see you get a silver UA-cam plaque, maybe even a custom created one in the not so distant future!
Love that you can do your drive videos again, find them a great way to relax, and love the smooth jazz you play, really relaxing. Havn't lived in London for over 18yrs now, so a great way to see the city. Keep up the great work Tom and glad you're back.
How is he able to now?
Has he addressed why they're allowed now? I never understood why they were blocked, seemed mutually beneficial to TFL
@@jakesdiner He said he didn't want to go into detail regarding TfL's initial concerns out of respect for his relationship with TfL. The fact that he is releasing again is I think a sign they found a mutual agremeent. I wouldn't expect him to share any details though.
@@jakesdiner He commented on his first new driving video that the LTDA (his union) liaised with Transport for London to understand what the areas of concern were. In short, the initial letter he received was not a direct concern about him, but rather the safety and privacy implications of filming (like filming members of the public, his safety whilst driving, etc.). I've noticed he doesn't include the voices of his passengers anymore, and like always he won't handle the camera while driving.
I agree so relaxing !
14:08 - I always thought that was a thank you gesture for letting him through
it is
40 years' experienced cab driver from Darwin, Australia. Not only do you have "the knowledge" but mate, you also have "the knack".
Spent a year working all over London with little money, using buses, underground and shanks' pony to get around - great to traverse the old routes vicariously, but in style this time.
Pedestrians, cyclists and escooter riders will never appreciate that they can always stop faster than a motor vehicle.
LOve your work and attitude - keep it up - good rides and good luck for the future. Cheers.
Hi Tom, good to see the Royal Albert Hall make an appearance! I'm one of the managers of the stewarding team there and we often get asked about taxis. Being able to reliably tell people that they'll easily be able to hail a black cab from the high street outside is really valuable to the overall customer experience. Cheers to you and all the cabbies out there keeping the city moving 👍
Look forward to watching this Tom glad these type of vids are back and rolling
Yeah it's so awesome, but what changed? I thought TFL weren't happy with these kinds of videos, did I miss something?
But it's lovely to see this videos back on the channel, they are more than great!
@@FelixNBR I think him and his union came into an agreement or something can't fully remember. I know saw some reason in the comments in o e of his last videos
@@FelixNBR My guess would be that Tom agreed to blur people's faces out (e.g. 7:28) and not upload audio of conversations. Makes sense to be honest. That way, everyone's happy.
Glad he can shoe these again as found them really interesting.
Great to see the driving videos are back. You are a great ambassador for the Black Cab trade.
Thanks Ben 👍🏻
Just in awe of your knowledge of London Tom and really enjoy “driving” with you.
Thanks Richard, I love The Knowledge of London and it’s something all of us cabbies have 👍🏻
Tom, not knowing The Smoke particularly well, apart from the football grounds, to watch your travels around town is both a joy and an education. Thank you and keep posting.
Don't know why, but I love watching these ''A day in the life'' kind of vids.
I like this format where you drive and then show your journey on a map. For me this is simple and elegant. Do you have any more like it? Thanks. Greetings from Cold Cornwall!!
Thanks, I will be making plenty more 👍🏻
Kernow Byz Vyken
It's so strange as a foreigner watching how London is build. The roads are so narrow, and almost never straight, they are bending and winding all over the place xD
I wonder if this all goes back to when people walked and most of these roads are just paths than was eventually converted to roads.
I definitely get a sort of maze vibe when watching the video.
The large majority of it grew organically as opposed to using a strict planning system where specific designs for streets would be built. Tudors, Stuarts, Georgians, Victorians etc. all contributed to making the built environment look like this today
Very interesting tom. I drive a luton van all over the country but out of all our drivers i enjoy London the most!!
It makes me feel alive. Love the channel
Marleybone is the home of London's least known terminus station (yes, less known than Fenchurch Street) and also Lord's!
Marylebone is the most known for me because the rail line from my town to London always goes to there. Been there too many times
Somehow, I remember Marylebone more than Fenchurch Street - mostly because with the c2c trains, I'd guess a lot of people get off at West Ham etc whereas you'd have to go into/from Marylebone for Chiltern trains 🤔
I work west London on the emergency ambulances, always keeping an eye out for you!
That sounds ominous 👀
Shift vids are the best vids. Binging like there is no tomorrow.
Good to see the driving videos are back, even if a little curtailed compared to the originals, miss the banter and the way you were able to tell us the way live as it were. However liking the map drawing segments showing us on the map the route you are taking as it gives a more detalied view the roads around your route as well as the ones you will be using rather than just saying "head west along so and so road and left into...."
keep up the good work.
These videos are outstanding Tom. Keep at it mate. You deserve 100x the view count but the audience will come in time.
I must be getting old.
I’m enjoying watching REAL taxi.
Subscribed even.
I appreciate the editing that goes in to these videos 👍 chill music and great visuals
I would have never thought there was a cabbie twitter! I am from a small city in Canada, who has always read a lot about Britain, so I know about some of these neighbourhoods and places. Really cool to see the routes through the city!
Good to see Battersea, where I grew up. You drove right past the end of the road I lived in from aged 16 to 25. 😊
Glad you managed to get these sort of videos past TfL. I really like them. Also makes me wanna do the Knowledge, knowing that in January 2021, there's still a good demand for a black cab.
@@cityzens634 😂, whoops.
Best time to do the knowledge if there ever was one! This year will be one hell of a busy one....believe you me. Loving these videos Tom driving the cab....as it is👌🏻
@@framedman Haha I've been making that mistake this whole month! I think it's because 2021 was a bit of a blur with everything that's going on... although better than 2020 tbh
Would be a cool to generate a heat map over time of the roads you use, my motorcycles GPS generates one and it's fun to look at.
Hyde Park Corner would be solid red for me haha! But yes, would be interesting to see as there's some roads that I never use even if they are fairly central (the very top of Sloane Street for example).
Jake, what’s your motorcycle gps please?
I guess the concern from TFL is privacy etc? Is this why we don't hear the passenger anymore and the route is now shown as text?
Really enjoyed this tom! Brilliant video. Great to see the streets of London again! Tempting me to jump back on my local circuit. Ive been school running it the last few months! Look forward too the next one buddie!
Glad to see videos of you on the road are back Tom!
I love these videos so much!! It’s sooo interesting watching you casually work your way through the back alleys etc! Thanks man 👌🏼🤙🏼
Thank you sir 👍🏻 see you on the next one
Great video. Might be worth remembering if you're around East London when the troxy Hall on commercial Road finishes an event, there's so many people after a cab.
Oh yes, so many areas where demand outstrips supply. Printworks is another good example.
Keep em coming Tom these are cracking vlogs love seeing all over London it's one hell of a place, only ever been twice and last time must of been 30 years ago!!!
This really shows why important the knowledge is so good, first of all you don't miss any fares and if there's an incident you can take a different without waiting for the sat nav to pick-up the problem and divert you or you forcing it to take an alternative route (that everyone else with google maps is probably taking)
Brilliant video Tom as usual Mate always a pleasure to watch
I could watch these for hours! Love the little mews crossing!
I know you have done a few videos on expenses etc, but to go along side your superb black line map, how about a daily running total, gross or net, if not to private.
Also Would really love to see the differences between a cabbie in the hey day and now the modern internet age, wonder if you could get a good old boy on to have a little chinwag
Loving the videos Tom glad you're back filming in the cab
Perfect unwind video to watch before bed
thanks for plotting your route...great videos Tom...keep up the good work
Just stumble across your channel Amazing how you remember all those routes I love looking around London and now I've found a great channel to drive around it Great narrative to go with it Thanks
Thanks Peter, it’s what every London cabby has to do to get their badge!
Hi Tom . Love seeing what it’s like for a London cabbie ! I’m a Hackney driver in Glasgow . What’s so noticeable is the difference in the road surface in London to Glasgow ! I bought a tx4 from London last year and wasn’t a rattle . Give it a couple months up here and your shoogling along with loads of rattles because of the potholes ! Keep up the good work .
I know the feeling,i'm a Cabbie in Edinburgh and the roads are shocking 😣
In the 40s and 50s Harley Street was also known as Pill Island ✌🏻
Love that! thank you!
My dad was a cabbie and I’m into my 34 year now and I have his badge✌🏻
I just wasted 14 minutes and 43 seconds of my life, and that’s not including the ads. Thank you Tom
At 14:06 I think that he done what most of us would do, being to choose the shortest route possible. there was already someone on the zebra crossing so you weren't going anywhere. also in London that hand gesture is usually given as a sign of thanks along with the obvious thumbs up.
good content btw
You do get people who push it though, who just step in front of moving traffic and try and stop the traffic
I love getting to know London through your videos!
Keep up the good work Tom. Love the vids.
i lived in london and surrey on and off for many years . based in chelsea barracks and caterham in the 70s and early 80s . huge respect for your knowledge . i am now a retired private hire driver on merseyside 25 years . we had to do a knowledge , but nothing anywhere near like london . cab and private hire are so different , but one thing we have in common , the work is never where where you are . lol
Sooooo happy this kind of content is back!!
Glad to see the driving videos are back. Was missing them like mad
Just subscribed, this is the kind of channel I enjoy
1 of the unsung heroes of London
A short foray into South West London, maybe next time you'll dive deeper into soth' London. But can appreciate why you stay central as much as you can.
Really helpful the way you show your journey's on the map.
Like many others have said, these 'in cab' videos are very relaxing. Unfortunately, the black cab drivers are really suffering here in Glasgow due to the impact of Covid and other factors. You mentioned fuel costs Tom - I thought your cab was fully electric but I'm assuming it's a hybrid? It would be great if you could do a video review of the cab itself as the electric versions are very nice indeed.
Really like these relaxed driving videos.
Missed these Taxi shift videos. Welcome back hope to see more! 😁
Tom your a poet and we know it 💯
You should do a video on how you spot hails. I’m the videos I find it so impressive that you can spot someone in a crowd waving whilst driving in london!
Just a raised arm does it. Sometimes it’s hard as people hail, think you’ve seen them, then put their arm down.
I have been caught out by pictures, people hailing buses and there’s even one statue in the city of a guy hailing a cab 😂
Another great vid, love how theraputic these vids are so easy to watch and like how you explain the routes on the map. A random find of your channel but glad it exists. get in there/
0:37 Jeep giving a Mustang GT a boost in London is pretty cool to spot mate.
I prefer this style of shift video to the more recent ones, especially with the music - much more zen-y
Another good video Tom👍
Tom, I just happened to stumble on one of your UA-cam videos - and I'm already hooked! I find it so much fun watching how you conduct your job! Great channel +1 Sub 🙂
Thank you for your time to watch, there’s plenty more to come!
Love the content mate
I like these videos Tom... it's a magical mystery tour for me.
Enjoyed the video!
Tom would love to see you at the Taxi rank outside Chelsea and Westminster hospital someday (where I work!)
Love your vids. To me, the ✋🏻 even at zebra crossings just means “sorry to keep you waiting mate, cheers”
just discovered this channel today by chance and am instantly addicted to it. liked & subscribed. i'm an investment bank bond trader but in the next life i want to be a taxi driver.
Nice one Tom. Good to see you out and about again
Another enjoyable video, Tom. Keep them coming. As an aside, I assume as part of you posting again you've decided not to show the fares or feature the voices of the passengers?
Love these videos , keep them up 👍🏻
I have no idea why I like watching this
These real life videos are excellent.
I pronounce Marylebone how you do Tom in the first instance, otherwise I call it Bone marrow 🤣
Mar-le-bun 🙂
@@EarlSquirrelsonn meaning "bun of marmite" for short right? ........ Riiiiight???? 🤔😂
Yes Tom so glad you can upload again. Will you be uploading younold content again?
Safe travels
Great road footage, really informative!
Hi Tom! First off, congratulations on producing such an interesting and well produced channel - I really enjoy it! Can you just clarify what you meant when you referred to prioritising street work over app work? Does it just mean logging out of the app so you don't receive a pre booked job or do you mean you could accept such a job but send it back if you were subsequently hailed from the street? I used to be a PH driver and it bugged the hell out of me when Hackney drivers would do that as it would delay the customer who might then give me flak!
Just switch the app off. I’ll be on Shaftesbury Avenue and it will be a request in Covent Garden, which at 10pm on a Friday night take 10 minutes to drive to. Makes no sense for app work in central.
Nice to see the POV videos back mate!
After a great day at work it is nice to see others having a great day at work. In a city I might spend some of what I earned to day, some day.
I'm really glad you've found a way to do these videos that TFL is satisfied with. I think I actually slightly prefer this format to the one they kicked up a fuss about.
Why what happened?
@@jackdavis8786 He had to take down a bunch of videos which had been kind of POV taxi driver videos showing some of his journeys etc. TFL had raised some objections. I did really like those videos, but to be honest I do prefer this new style - feels slightly more professional and a little easier to watch, whilst still being very enjoyable.
Loving the videos Tom from a Newcastle hackney driver 👍
For me being SE London. I just call it "Maryley-Bone" (Marley as in Bob Marley)
Excellent video but I am uber driver but I respect black cab excellent job
I hope you continue these videos great
Always good to know in a licensed cab you have priority on the road with a flag down ,have to do a u turn good .
Will you start adding in the costs after each ride again please? Also myabe if there is a decent conversation or if someone says something interesting in the cab, instead of having the sound play and worrying about privacy complaints just put subtitles on the screen of what you said and what they said? So happy these videos are back though.
He can’t due to TFL - why is why the earlier videos were taken down!
Hey Tom! I used to do exactly the same thing during kipper season. I’d head into Camden and Swiss Cottage for fares and places like Battersea too. I left the trade recently due to TfL’s 12/13/15 age rule making it very hard to make a good living in the cab. Unfortunately TFL post pandemic were completely unhelpful to myself on the 15 year age rule where I had to give up a perfectly healthy cab that should have seen through into its 15th year. As you know TFL moved the goalposts.
The driving vids are back lets goooo
What an addictive channel Tom
Great video - more like this please!
Marylebone, one of those controversial words for pronunciation. Id say its Marl-a-bun, but i used to call it mary-le-bone.
passenger gets in and says "clapham common" and tom starts driving towards it, knowing he can finesse the precise destination later.. LOL epic common sense. i lived in singapore and whenever i took a taxi from my office to the airport i'd say "changi airport please" and the cabbie would always say "which terminal?" and i'd think WTF i havent looked at my air ticket yet so just drive towards the damn airport and I'll tell you the damn terminal in a minute cos what difference does it make wen we're still half an hour away? yeesh..
BBC pronouncing dictionary says Marrilebon - it also says Kunduit for Conduit St, etc. Worth trying to get a copy although it’s been out of print for many years.
H iTom just subscribed makes me want to to get back out there. Like the Heathrow vlog
First year on the knowledge :)
Great video Tom more hopefully Liam taxi driver irl 🇨🇮
Love your videos.👋👋
Not gonna lie, your knowledge of London is unreal
Thanks David, this isn’t unique to me it’s what all cabbies in London need to know 👍🏻
Seeing that guy cross the road at the end Tom, what are your thoughts about the new hierarchy laws coming in?
Have a look at Ashley Neil's channel for a break down from a driving instructor.
Yes, watched his video on this and it's brilliant, he's a great educator!
I think it's obscene, I mean London pretty much operates on this principle already, but once pedestrians are aware of the law I think it will be flouted and almost impossible to drive.
Interesting to me how this "new law"-mentioned in other comments here too-seems to have kicked off so much controversy over there. My curiosity piqued, I searched for and watched Ashley Neal's video on the subject and came away... kind of having a laugh at it. 😆
Where I live (Alberta, Canada) it is already the law that pedestrians have the right-of-way at intersections (junctions), and this has been so for decades and decades. In effect at every street corner an "unmarked" crosswalk (crossing) with as much force and effect as a "zebra crossing" exists from corner to corner, and all drivers must yield (give way) to pedestrians. It's meant to make it easier for pedestrians to cross without having to dash across the road whenever they happen to catch a break in the vehicular traffic, and honestly it really doesn't cause chaos here. _Some_ pedestrians brazenly cross the road without looking for cars, shielded by the law saying the cars must stop for them, but it isn't all that common a problem.
That said, in denser areas of our most populous cities and on busy roads I think we much more liberally use traffic lights (including pedestrian signals) than in the UK, in part so that the vehicular traffic isn't held hostage to non-stop streams of pedestrian traffic. We also have "jaywalking" laws that make it illegal for pedestrians to cross anywhere _other_ than at marked/unmarked crossings at intersections, so generally drivers don't have to be on the lookout for pedestrians darting out into traffic anywhere and everywhere.
Anyway, just thought it was fascinating that you weren't _already_ obliged to stop for pedestrians at junctions, given that we have to over here. Cheers
@@mark_p300 it's been law for most of Europe for some time too and i think that all the fuss that everyone is making over it is just pathetic.
@@TomtheTaxiDriver just as a side note, I don't think the guy was doing a hand up "stop I'm crossing" sign, I think he put his hand up as like a sorry/thanks sign. At least that's always what I take it to mean when someone does that to me.
Great Video mate! It would be interesting to see a video on your views on the new highway codes and how you think it will impact the streets.
I’m genuinely concerned about the new Highway codes 😞
@@TomtheTaxiDriver I am so glad you agree Tom, I’m a collection driver for royal mail doing postboxes and post offices and the new rules scare me😂
Great video Tom 👍🏻
Love the upload rate. Really enjoy watching bro. Keep it up. I wanna see you get a silver UA-cam plaque, maybe even a custom created one in the not so distant future!
Thanks Alex 👍🏻
Lovely to see you have a way around producing videos and not breaking the UA-cam rules lol
Enjoyed that!