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The February
issue of Call Sign told of Dial-a-Cab call
taker Danielle Barton and her three-year battle to
complete the Knowledge. When we left her, she was almost there
but now we have heard from Malcolm Linskey at
Knowledge Point, that Danielle has made it and is a fully
qualified London taxi driver, joining mum Jeanette who
passed out several years ago. Malcolm takes up the story... "It was appropriate that mother and daughter, Green Badge drivers Jeanette and Danielle Barton, should arrive at Knowledge Point School to thank everyone for their help on the same day as the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day whose slogan is Equal Rights, Equal Opportunities and Progress for All. "As far as we are aware, Jeanette and Danielle are the |
IT’S DANIELLE AND MUM! And on International Women’s Day... |
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| London taxi trade’s only mother and daughter duo. Jeanette completed the Knowledge in 2002 and encouraged Danielle to join Knowledge Point as soon as she expressed an interest in following her mum’s footsteps and becoming a London taxi driver. Supported by her part-time job in the Dial-a-Cab call centre, it took Danielle just over 3 years to |
qualify – that magical
moment coming in February of this year." Proudly displaying their Green badges, both Jeanette and Danielle say they enjoy being cab drivers, especially with the flexibility of hours. As for Danielle in a goodbye to her DaC friends, she emitted the plaintiff cab drivers cry of where to guv! |
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TRAFFIC FLOW Richard Potter asks: Are TfL telling us the truth??? |
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 Apart from Top Gear repeats on Dave, the BBC news channel, Scrap Yard Challenge, Myth Busters and Sky Sports, I spend little time watching TV or the usual terrestrial channels these days. But recently whilst flicking channels, I came across Seven days in Traffic on ITV 1. It had all the usual stuff about drivers blowing their tops, white van man etc, before they took a visit to TfL’s underground bunker in Victoria Street. I shouldn’t ridicule, but it made me laugh to be told that the TfL staff, who loved the power of their jobs, were doing their level best to keep London’s traffic |
moving and it
was all done at the touch of a button! It was all the proof I needed that not only have TfL got the ability to speed traffic up, they have the ability to slow traffic down. I remember on numerous occasions Ken Livingstone vehemently denying the latter when it was put to him that traffic speeds had hardly increased since the introduction of the congestion charge. And how could someone have the audacity to suggest that if the congestion charge was working, why the need to increase it? Or that TfL was deliberately slowing things down to add weight to their argument. Was TfL’s intention to clear the streets of traffic to provide faster journeys and cheaper fares for taxi users so that more would use us? Well, the next time you are waiting in the long queue to turn right into Duke St Saint James from Piccadilly and the green light is facing the bus lane with nothing in it, remember its all down to those helpful people at TfL for keeping the traffic flowing! Richard Potter (T51) |
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