taxi: draw the route a London cabbie would take

Draw a route between two London landmarks and get scored on the meter.

Cabbies spend three years learning these streets. Draw the route.

Two cabs drive it. The lower fare wins.

How to play

Two London landmarks. Draw a route between them. Your cab and a cabbie's both drive it, meters running.

Easy and Hard: sketch it roughly. Your cab takes the legal route closest to your line and obeys one-ways and bus gates (and on Hard, banned turns). The reveal says what they cost. Brutal: draw it street by street, and the map only shows in glimpses.

Times come from speed limits, traffic lights and turns across traffic. The fare is TfL's taxi tariff.

10 points if you match the cabbie's fare, down to 0 at 80% over. Five journeys, out of 50.

Scoring

over  = your fare / the cabbie’s − 1
over:   0   10%  20%  35%  50%  80%
score: 10    8  6.8  4.4    2    0

Daily challenge

Five journeys, the same for everyone today, on Hard. One attempt.

Street data © OpenStreetMap contributors, under the Open Database Licence.

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