OLYMPIC 2012_ Olympic lane demo halts London traffic

Olympic lane demo halts London traffic

Ben Glaze, AAP
Updated July 18, 2012, 1:41 am
.Olympic gridlock  Honking taxi drivers have brought parts of London to a standstill to protest their ban from dedicated Olympic traffic lanes.

Taxi drivers have brought parts of London to a standstill in a protest over their ban from dedicated Olympics traffic lanes.

More than 200 black cabs converged on the streets around Parliament House on Tuesday afternoon blaring their horns to tourists' bemusement.

Their demonstration is targeted at Games' organisers who developed the so-called Zil lanes available only to Olympics officials, athletes and other approved vehicles.

Jonathan Myers, of the United Cabbies group union, said: "There will be no access to these lanes for any traffic apart from the Olympics family.

"Taxis are excluded, which is unacceptable and wrong. This is a working city and we need to get around and do our job."

He believed it would "absolutely impossible" for cabbies to carry on ferrying commuters around the city during the Games when the full lane restrictions take effect on July 25.

Motorists who stray into Games lanes face STG130 ($A200).

"London is going to be gridlocked and today we are showing them what it is like when it is gridlocked," Myers said.




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