This morning's commute and other commuting stories

How?

I didn't know you could even do this, nice.

I got doored by a passenger who decided to get out of minicab at London Bridge a few years ago. Not a stop or parking space, no signalling and car was in outside lane of 2 as I filtered up the inside as cars stationary at traffic light. I didn't break any bones but had a sprained wrist and buckled my front wheel beyond repair. I did explain to the driver of the cab he was responsible as he should not have just let his passengers get out in the middle of the road, but he just shrugged his shoulders.

Driver did stop and we exchanged details, about a month later I got a call to say he actually wasn't insured and there's nothing they can do.

I reported it to TFL as I thought it a bit shit that its even possible for them to grant a minicab licence for a driver who has no insurance, and driver actually had a passenger at the time, right by London Bridge, where there's a fuck ton of CCTV. And this way the day before the terror attack on London Bridge where the dude with narwol tusk took on the terrorist. So the CCTV around there must have been examined in the most forensic detail imaginable for about 24 hours before and after the incident. TFL did not even reply until I chased it up a month or so later, and then said they were not going to take any action or do anything. Absolutely fucking useless by TFL I thought, so fuck them.