Bearing in mind the revelation last year that a single GLA member racked up a staggering £10,000 taxi bill in a year we're rather puzzled why senior bosses at Transport For London are causing gripe when they've only managed to spend around £1,500 on cabs in the same time period. TFL Chief, Peter Hendy, is fingered here for spending about £29 a week of taxpayers' money on Hackney Carriages but realistically that could well......

Tolerance, cultural diversity, liberal attitude… none of these are concepts traditionally linked with London’s black cab drivers. But new figures released by TFL reveal that a drive to recruit more cabbies from ethnic minorities has been a great success – with a third of current applicants for The Knowledge coming from a black, Asian or other ethnic background. This new, multicultural taxi force is the result of a prolonged campaign by TFL to attract......

Next time you turn down a proffered tête-à-tête with a chirpie cabbie, you could be missing out on a satisfying cultural exchange. Who knows whether your driver is a painter, origami champion or candle-stick maker? Black cab driver Dominic Shannon has spent nine years of his career taking pictures of city life, warts and all. While other cab drivers pass the time by attempting to splash foolhardy tourists standing in close proximity to puddles......

We fell in love with Black Cab Sessions the moment we first heard of them. How could we not? Taking a drive around the best city in the world (okay, we're biased, yes) in a design classic with some of our favourite bands rockin' out in the back seat: it's exactly how we'd like to spend a lazy afternoon. Since we generally are unable to scrape together enough coins to even steal sideways glances......

Having recently highlighted the shortages of Black Cab drivers here’s an example of one of the precious joys of being a London Cabbie to encourage those youngsters to sign up. You get to dress your cab up! Oh yes. Steven Bell, from Chingford, transformed his Hackney Carriage into a big pink fluffy bunny scooping the coveted prize of Best Dressed Cab. The honour was bestowed upon him and his trusty steed by the London......

Carpages.co.uk isn't a website we'd normally frequent. After all we have better things to do in the Londonist offices than browse "the UK's Motoring Search Engine and Portal", things like descaling the kettle or rifling through the bins out the back of the NME's offices. But when we saw the headline Black Cab Is 'The Glory Of London' we have to admit our interest was peaked, especially when we read on and realised that......

You, our faithful Londonist readers, did so well with the previous installments of this little game, in which we have asked you to identify the London location of videos featuring Kylie, Coldplay, and the Chemical Brothers, that we thought we'd give you a bit more of a challenge. (As always, post answers or other reactions in the comments.) Madonna, Madonna, Madonna! We don't even need to make a joke. You can come up with your......

Since ancient times man has always sought advice from those he knew wiser. Whether it be the Delphic Oracle, The Sun's racing tipster, or more often than not for Londoners - the Black Cab driver. London Taxi drivers are the source of all knowledge – FACT. We have all been raised on the euphemism 'what London a cabbie doesn't know, isn't worth knowing in the first place'. Indeed Reuters tells us that taxi drivers,......

Tower Bridge would have to rate as one of London's most famous landmarks, we know this because it inevitably features in the clip montages contained in American movies to inform the audience that the hero is now in London, and if a red double decker bus is going over it at the time then that's even better. Somewhere in one of these shots, just before they cut to the Queen hailing a Black Cab......

First they came for the RouteMaster, and I did not speak out, because I was not a RouteMaster. And now, the Evening Standard scare headline says it all: BLACK CABS UNDER THREAT. Well, that headline would "say it all" if "it all" meant "an utterly overblown piece of scare-mongering crapola of the standard we have come to expect from the Standard". The story is this: Transport for London have gone insane. They have locked......

In more Black Cab related news, fares are set to go up an extra 20p to cover improvements needed to cut the amount of harmful gasses they emit. This is a part of the Mayors overall plan to reduce pollution in London, as according to Kens office "about 1,600 Londoners die prematurely each year because of air pollution, which causes illnesses such as heart and lung disease". So there you go, a minimal fare increase,......

Grand Theft Auto step aside because a leading video games developer has announced that they have secured the licence to create a driving game based on the London Black Cab. Now, before you all rush out to your local games shop demanding that they reserve at least six copies of this groundbreaking title for you and all your friends, why not stick around for some of the exciting details. The game (called "London Taxi")......