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Ministers 'to use Olympic lanes'

Senior Cabinet ministers, including the Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, William Hague and Theresa May have been allowed to use the Olympic lanes “on the advice of the security services”, according to the London Evening Standard.

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Taxi drivers outraged by Ministers' Games lanes special exemption

The Evening Standard has reported that taxi drivers have criticised proposals for several ministers to use the Olympic 'Zil' lanes. Jonathan Myers, press officer for the United Cabbies Group, said:

It’s quite outrageous. So they really are Zil lanes in the old fashion ‘Zil lanes from Soviet Russia’ — where only the elite are able to use them.

If I was a government minister, I would not use them. I would come in solidarity with the people of London who are not allowed to use them.

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