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@Grubbythumb
I'm not in London, but we still have cars, busses and everything out here in the 'sticks' including cabs and more importantly cab drivers.
Riding along the seas front road (I live in a seaside town), approaching some traffic lights, that turned red when I was about 15 yards from them. As I started to slow, a huge people carrier overtook me, slapped his brakes on, and then swerved hard left, jamming his front wheel into the curb. This would have been OK, if it hadn't been for the fact that I was only about 10 feet behind him. OH SHIIIIII
Fortunately my reactions were quick enough to allow me to swing up the outside, rather than A) Run slap into the back of his cab, or (B) Get crushed into the curb.
When the light changed, the delightful driver had a second swing at me, this time to the right, but missed as I was going so slow and he had engaged some sort of warp drive.
That's when I spotted his very easily remembered Hackney Cab plate number!