If you don’t want to commit to learning all of London to gain a green badge, you can study for only 18-24 months for a yellow badge, allowing you to work in one of London’s 9 sectors. As the suburban badge is yellow, predictably they’re known as ‘canaries’.
It typically takes an applicant between 18 months to two years to complete the knowledge for a suburban sector and therefore none of this year’s applicants have been licensed to date.
Across the 9 yellow badge sectors just 1,954 drivers hold suburban licences with Transport for London.
Only 22 new applications to become a suburban black cabbie have been received by the regulator between the turn of the year and 25th May according to a Freedom of Information request. None of these applicants has as yet qualified.
Of those who have gained the required knowledge this year TfL has issued only four London suburban taxi driver licences this year.
On 9 July 1991 a bank collapsed costing taxpayers millions, the closure of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International lost about 20 local councils up to £30 million in investments
On 9 July 1864 England’s 1st railway murder, 70 year old bank clerk Thomas Briggs body was found on the tracks near Hackney Wick
The Hanger Lane Gyratory System known as Malfunction Junction is so complicated was voted Britain’s scariest junction by anxious motorists
Karl Marx one of the many famous residents at Highgate Cemetery, his tomb has been bombed twice, in 1965 and 1970
St Mary Woolnoth’s past rector was reformed former slave-trader John Newton friend of William Wilberforce and author of hymn Amazing Grace
Founded in 1811 and designed by Sir John Soane, the Dulwich Picture Gallery is the oldest purpose-built gallery in Britain
Belsize House became a byword for scandal in the 1720s notorious for immoral parties, extravagant feasts, mud-wrestling and illegal gambling
On 9 July 1877 the first Wimbledon Championships began with a single event-The Gentlemen’s Singles Tournament, won by Spencer Gore, aged 27 against 22 competitors each paying a guinea to enter
Greenford station remains the only one on the Underground with wooden escalators all others were removed after large fire at King’s Cross
Jacob Cohen opened his first Tesco in Burnt Oak combining the initials of his tea supplier T.E. Stockwell with his surname’s first letters
In a bizarre episode Gunnersbury Station was badly damaged in 1954 when a tornado ripped off its roof injuring six people
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