Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Taxi!

I see from yesterday's Echo headline that Cardiff's 'cabbies' are threatening to strike because they don't like the top of St Mary Street being closed at weekends. I'd have a bit more sympathy if I hadn't (on two separate occasions) been crossing the road there on my way to salsa - with the green man in my favour - and had to leap out of the way of taxis doing illegal U-turns. It's about time they realised that traffic laws apply to them as well. (That also means the laws against jumping red lights, doing 60 in a 40 limit, carving up cyclists and threatening to run them off the road...)

The road closure makes St Mary Street a lot safer and calmer on a Saturday night, so I'm all for it.

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