[lentulusgracchus]

Oh, amen .... but I don't see why a degreed taxi driver would be preferable (to the employer or the customer) to a man who really knows his way around (in London, they call it "the Knowledge", and prospective London cabbies are examined in it before they get their rides).

Of course, and I think it was Jerry Seinfeld who once pointed it out, a good way to start a 55-minute argument is to ask a foursome of Manhattanites to tell you the best way to get from Columbus Circle to Battery Park.

[a fool in paradise]

The cab drivers (off the boat) in my city don’t know the basic roads and have total reliance on mapping software telling them when and where to turn.

[miss marmelstein]

Oh, the answer to that used to be easy: just take Broadway all the way down. Now with that stupid pedestrian mall in Times Square...