Our little tiny street in London wasn;t on any map, but the taxi drivers knew where it was....they just couldn’t go down it, it was so small......Kensington Church Walk.....DARLING!!!
Overkill. Limits the number of people who qualify. The exorbitant cab fares reflect this. I remember paying $70 for a relatively short cab ride. After that, I confined myself to livery cabs, where the drivers don't have this encyclopedic knowledge, but do drive whisper-quiet Beemers (as opposed to the noisy black cabs).
I was just in London. Took a tax ride from near King’s Cross Station to The Gherkin, a building in central London. I followed the ride on my iPhone Maps. The tax driver took the most amazingly efficient route through an impossible maze of streets. It took 40 minutes as this was the middle of a working day. The sights and sounds were a treat and the spacious taxi made me feel like a ‘Guv-na,” as they put it.
I don’t have this kind of knowledge of the streets in my home town. I drive around by landmarks and most of the time could not tell you what street I am on.
This is worth a read.
I was one of Boston’s original bicycle messengers, and had “The knowledge” of Boston’s twisted streets and alleyways. Often when dashing through a back alley in Chinatown or the South End, I would see these strange, life-size outlines of people on the street.
It was a while before it dawned on me that these were the outlines of people found dead.
I got an extra dollar for going to the DMV because it was so aggravating!
So... you studying up for this? ;-)