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@Brun
I was really fucking angry on the way home tonight. Have calmed down a bit now.
Heading up Portland Place past the junction with Weymouth St, about here. There's no lanes marked but it's always treated as two which is fair enough, it works. I was pretty much equally between the parking boxes on the left and the arrow. Green lights at the junction, wouldn't be unreasonable to assume I was doing about 20mph. Heard an engine noise coming towards me behind my left shoulder and took a quick glance. Noticed one headlight and thought it was either a bike or a car about to turn left. Really didn't expect a cab to pass me on the inside before immediately pulling right to avoid the cars parked on the other side of the junction.
This was about 21:50, and there was absolutely nothing else on the road preventing him from using the lane (not that there are any) to the right of me. I honestly can't imagine why he did it other than for shits and giggles, and I'm wondering why his female passengers were looking through the back window after he passed (I have calves and an arse, but neither are that special).
The next lights up were green and then he took a left on Park Circus where I go right. I'm considering that fortunate cos if I'd have caught up I might have gone a bit mental. Small issue of me being four pints into the Easter weekend wouldn't have helped my cause if shit had got serious.
tldr: There are some cunts of taxi drivers around, but this one didn't get me