5 JANUARY 1951, Page 8

Let no one say there is not such a thing

as the official type of mind. Someone made the sensible suggestion that instead of one long queue for taxis behind one long barrier at Waterloo there should be several openings in the barrier so that several taxis could pick up simultaneously. Comment of a British Railways official: "The police are satisfied ; the taxi people like the system." And the public ? Oh, those poor fishes ? What do they matter ?

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