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Sunderland City Centre - Dead When It Should Be Full Of Life

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This taxi driver sums up Sunderland City Centre on Saturday night just after Boris Johnson closed the pubs and clubs due to the Coronavirus outbreak.
It's normally heaving at that time of the morning but it's totally dead.
He calls it prohibition which could be what we are living through.



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I can't see this video staying up for long, he drove through 4 red lights :lol:


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Bus Driver wrote: 22 Mar 2020, 12:54 I can't see this video staying up for long, he drove through 4 red lights :lol:
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I don't think anybody will be bothered about that :lol:


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Ha ha ha, a classic line "might have outlawed the drink, but you'll never outlaw the effing pizzas".
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There'll be hardly any airport or school runs and nobody going to the pubs etc.
Taxi drivers are going to have it a bit rough.


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Crawford wrote: 23 Mar 2020, 13:48 There'll be hardly any airport or school runs and nobody going to the pubs etc.
Taxi drivers are going to have it a bit rough.
Victims of circumstance like many other businesses.


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Sunderland Nut wrote: 23 Mar 2020, 17:20
Victims of circumstance like many other businesses.
Things are slowly winding down even the buses and Metro system.


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Bus Driver wrote: 23 Mar 2020, 18:24
Things are slowly winding down even the buses and Metro system.
It's pointless operating a full service when the population is almost on a total lockdown.


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Bus Driver wrote: 22 Mar 2020, 12:54 I can't see this video staying up for long, he drove through 4 red lights :lol:
They are called taxi driver green :lol:


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Post by Mawsey »

Well done to the taxi driver for showing us a glimpse into the city centre at that time.
Preserve it because we will get through this and it's a part of history now.


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