{"id":113,"date":"2012-10-28T22:05:09","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T20:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.english-now.de\/blog\/?p=113"},"modified":"2012-10-28T22:05:09","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T20:05:09","slug":"frankfurt-taxi-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.english-now.de\/blog\/2012\/10\/28\/frankfurt-taxi-drivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Frankfurt taxi drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do these people actually have driver&#8217;s licences?<\/p>\n<p>Do they EVER follow the laws of driving?<\/p>\n<p>O.K. Before I go on I want to tip my hat to the few drivers who are gentlemen of the road &#8211; I have met a few &#8211; although I think they are a dying breed.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday I was driving down the A5 toward the Frnakfurter Kreutz junction. I am on cruise and it is set to 99 KMPH &#8211; in a 100 KMPH zone.<\/p>\n<p>Cars are merging in from the right from the A638 junction &#8211; so I indicate and move into the middle lane to allow them to join freely.<\/p>\n<p>One taxi however is not content to just joint the inside lane &#8211; he keeps moving out, without indicating, into my path forcing me to swerve into the outside lane &#8211; where a taxi that was follwing him to join the A5 &#8211; has swept behind me and was then overtaking (of course taxis are not restricted to 100 kmph and with big powerful Mercedes can accelerate at full power) . So he got upset that I was forced into his path.<\/p>\n<p>Both of them then proceeded to box me in and break sharply in front of me &#8211; not once &#8211; but three times. I guess they wanted to teach me that whenever I saw a taxi I should run for cover and realise that they OWN the road.<\/p>\n<p>I was forced to pull in behind an articulated truck for protection.<\/p>\n<p>Taxi drivers &#8211; go to hell!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do these people actually have driver&#8217;s licences? Do they EVER follow the laws of driving? O.K. Before I go on I want to tip my hat to the few drivers who are gentlemen of the road &#8211; I have met &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.english-now.de\/blog\/2012\/10\/28\/frankfurt-taxi-drivers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-driving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.english-now.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.english-now.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.english-now.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.english-now.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.english-now.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.english-now.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"https:\/\/www.english-now.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.english-now.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.english-now.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.english-now.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}