DISABLED people are to get subsidies from the city to use Shanghai’s new “London taxis” after complaints that they are too expensive.

This will be 80 percent of the price difference between ordinary taxis and the gold-colored London cabs, the Shanghai Disabled People’s Federation announced yesterday.

A fleet of 50 China-made Geely TX4 cabs, the same model as used in Britain’s capital, hit Shanghai’s streets last month.