Doing the Knowledge

To become a London taxi driver you need to complete the “knowledge of London” or “The knowledge” as it’s known. The knowledge is designed to help you learn all the routes within a 6 mile radius of Charing Cross. You will need various aids to help you with this and one of the most important things are the blue book runs or “runs”.

There are 320 Runs in the blue book and you are expected to learn all of them. You will also need to learn as many points as possible and there over 30,000 points out there. You will learn all the points slowly as you progress through the knowledge and once you have completed the 320 blue book runs you can spend your time “pointing”.

If you get your set of runs from Here they will have points at the beginning and end of each run so you can spend a little while looking for these points. Once you are well into the runs you will start to see points naturally as you will be going over the same streets time and again.

A lot of people will find doing the knowledge very daunting but once you get into it you will find it gets easier and easier. Another way to help you is to get as many lists of points, buildings, clubs, theatres etc. as possible. The more information you have at hand the easier you will find doing the knowledge.

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