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Trailers looked terrid but nothing new really. I got involved in the making of a very similar documentary in around 1997/8 when working full time as pedicab rider in soho. I believe the programme was called "Cabbies and Baddies" and focussed on the antagonism between black cabs and the then new pedicabs. I was supposed to provide some thrilling on-board footage from the battery powered camera mounted on a broomstick. I recall the first fare I got with the camera was a drunk squaddie wanting to go back to Wellington Barracks, I took a shortcut though cabbie free Regent's Park and when it started raining covered ithe camera with a carrier bag. They weren't that thrilled with my footage and gave the camera to someone else after that. I did a couple of talking head bits about cabbies cutting us up, blocking us in, deliberately revving engines to fumigate us in traffic etc. I never saw the finished product. I assume it was shit and pointless as well. Plus ca change.