Pandemic leaves London black cabs lying in taxi ‘graveyard’
By AFP
23 November 2020 |
3:08 pm
Around 150 London black cabs are being stored in a field outside the British capital because of a lack of demand for fares during the latest Covid-19 lockdown.
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