Until recently, in London there are three types of taxis - black cab, taxi on call and illegal cabs operating mainly at night. And since last year in the city appeared, and "pink lady" on wheels.

Cab filed, sir

the famous London black cab, you can catch in the street, simply raised his hand. People experienced argue that the chances increase significantly if the space between middle and index finger pinch bill. "Black" taxi drivers - guys daring: to pick up passengers, they are not thinking, turn left to the right lane, turn in the wrong place and stay there, where it is strictly prohibited. Black cabs - sight of the British capital, so their foolhardiness police turn a blind eye.
If the taxi is free, the roof will glow orange inscription «Taxi». Employed taxi rides dark. In the black cabs can sit in the parking lot located near major subway stations, train stations, shopping centers. "His" cabs serving major hotels and restaurants. Enough to apply to the waiter or hotel clerk, and soon an important port in the cylinder will announce: "Cab filed, sir».
To call a taxi by phone at home or somewhere another place, will use the services of specialized firms. These black taxi cabs are cheaper, more mobile - could take at least in Scotland, but on the street do not stop, even if the ride and empty it with you on the road. It's cars, most often the executive class, with distinctive signs on the doors of the firm.
And the last kind of coachmen - illegal household. Work mainly at night, cost about nightclubs, cheap bars and discos. In appearance the only difference from a taxi - no markings transportation company. However, it is difficult to see in the dark - is there something on the door or not. However, if the "firm" when filing a taxi driver will call your name/last name that you specified when you call the dispatcher on the phone, and the destination, the illegal immigrant Find out where you need, and sometimes even offer "to take you anywhere in the top ten." True, sometimes it turns out that as a result they brought him anywhere, not you. Only in London every week due to a few attacks on passengers, mostly the victims are women.

Pink Lady ordered?

; a year ago on the streets of some cities in England appeared taxi designed for women only. They do not confuse with anything, even in the pitch darkness.
Machines bright pink hearts with flirty on doors serving only the ladies behind the wheel - only women and also in pink.
founder and owner of the company «Pink Ladies Taxi» Andrea Winders and Tina Dutton was awarded the prize for best business idea in 2005.
«We both teenage daughter, for whom we also really worried when they return home one evening, "- said Andrea Winders told AiF. Europe ».

- Is there a risk that pink taxis just become a" bait "for burglars - all also know that some women in the car?

- Drivers undergo extensive training in self-defense and can, if necessary, to protect themselves and their passengers. In the taxi client pay only the cards, so cash in the car there, which also reduces the risk of attack - to take a nothing. All cars are equipped with special devices: is push a button and immediately goes the alarm to the police station, where satellite-based location of the machine is calculated, so that assistance will be provided immediately.
Unpleasant experience we have not been, but Curiosities rife. More recently, we received a call girl and said that she calls out the ladies room of a London bar. The girl came out on a date with a young man, who until then had never seen. Or in the course of the evening something happened, or he simply did not like it, but we had to play almost a scene from the James Bond film to get her out of the closet and quietly take home.

- If a woman has caused your taxi, car filed, but she was not alone, but with a husband or companion - you are lucky?

- None. The wife let him sit down, and my husband will go to trail in a black cab. We - "Taxi for women only, and no exceptions for anyone not do that. Also, why call the woman a pink taxi if she was not alone? Incidentally, we in the park there are several machines, which are called «Lucky Lily» («Lucky Lily"). They bought a woman when going in for an interview to work on exams, on a first date. Recently was a case: A woman called and said that he was going to play bingo, that never did not win anything, but now wants to try his luck with our "Lily". And what do you think? Won