Cabbies complain
Published:Tuesday | July 24, 2012 | 12:00 AM
Londoners love to grumble about getting around town, and the grumbles are reaching fever pitch with the imminent arrival of more than one million Olympic visitors.
The biggest target: the 'Zil' lanes, named for the Russian limos that used to sweep along Moscow's main boulevards. They don't open until tomorrow, but taxi drivers were demonstrating in central London yesterday, to show their displeasure. The lanes are aimed at easing the transport of officials, journalists and volunteers from their central bases in London for the 10-mile (14-kilometre) trip to Olympic Park.
London's Tube, the underground service that transports millions every day, hit problems on the main lines to the Olympic Park yesterday. 'Door problems' on the Jubilee Line was one explanation. 'Body on the track' was another. Unfortunately, the 'body on the track' line is not rare these days; it has become a favoured method of committing suicide.