Transport

London's licensed taxis: purpose-built, wheelchair accessible, hailable in the street, and driven by people who have memorised the entire city.

Britain's two-storey public buses, red in London and every other colour elsewhere, with the top deck front seats being the best free…

Driving on the left, in narrower lanes, on smaller roads, with roundabouts instead of four-way stops and speeds posted in miles per…

London's subway system, universally called the Tube: eleven lines, 272 stations, the oldest underground railway in the world.

London's reusable smartcard for public transport, now largely superseded by simply tapping a contactless bank card or phone.

Britain's rail network: the oldest in the world, privatised into a patchwork of operating companies, and the subject of permanent national complaint.