Day 91 Manhatten taxis

Close your eyes, go on close them,  I'm not going to do anything bad. Picture New York City, an Avenue lined with skyscrapers, crowded pavements, busy roads, the noise of the horns and the sirens, police whistles and people. What colour are most of the cars? And what do they look like? You probably answered yellow and they look like the cabs in the sitcom Taxi; old cumbersome vehicles with big steering wheels. That's how they were in my mind too but in reality they are not. They are all new cars, all shapes all sizes, all yellow but they are not the iconic New York taxi that lives in my imagination. What's more inside there are touch screens so you can choose your payment type. How dare the whole of New York ruin my holiday by secretly replacing all the taxis in the run up to my trip. bastards! Don't it always seem to go they you don't know what you got till it's gone.