more or less given up on the private hire stuff, since I parted company with the mrs about 15 months ago I really couldn't be arsed starting again and advertising, and can't be arsed working for a circuit day and night. I'm better off driving rail replacement buses at £20 an hour at weekends. At least when I'm finished, I'm finished, just a bit of a drive home.
Talking of which, the state of the roads in London are worse than some I've seen in India! Liverpool Street to Chingford, one of the routes I do, 12 miles of 20mph speed limits, 12 miles of speed humps jarring my back every minute or so, how do full-time rivers put up with it? And as for road works, well, Boris needs shooting. The other week 25 minutes from Tower Hill to Aldgate, less than half a mile! That as the evening of the stabbing at Leytonstone. what the papers didn't say is why the armed response units couldn't get there was because all roads east from London were gridlocked by roadworks making Boris' cycle super highway!
And the week before, doing a job from Barking to South Tottenham, from Barking Bus stand to the station, less than 1/4 mile, 35 minutes; to get out of Barking to the North circular, 65 minutes for less than a mile!! Then to Woodgrange Park, 2 miles, 1 hour 45.
