The Best Taxis from Around the World
| November 12, 2018
London, England
Black Cabs, Hackney Cabs, Hackney carriages … whatever you call them, they’re all over the streets of London, England. The Hackney Carriages of London set the international bar for superior service and unrivaled consumer experience. And as they should. After all, the taxi cab profession owes its livelihood to the invention of the first Hackney Carriages in the 1600s.
London manages to keep the level of Black Cab service high by making it incredibly difficult to qualify for a cab license. To get one, a hopeful cabbie must learn roughly 320 routes through 25,000 streets by heart.
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