![]() This car park could be looked at as a microcosm of Britain in 2017, with its finite tarmac, and its great and growing fleet of vans on top. He jogs away to help a reversing Peugeot Boxer. “But you get the odd few who want to be trendy,” says Bates, who must know the vans and their drivers better than anybody. Most vans on site accord with tradition (and stereotype): they are white. He narrows his eyes at a departing Renault Trafic, silver-painted and glinting in the 7am sun. “He’s leaking diesel.” Behind him, an inbound Citroën Berlingo beeps and does not slow, and Bates skips out of its path. Bates, 55, who is employed to choreograph traffic at the east London food market, gestures at a Vauxhall Vivaro. “Thousand, easy,” says Johnny Bates, scanning the fleet of Ford Transits and Mercedes Sprinters as they grind in and out of gear, halt with sudden handbrake croaks, and give out rich and satisfying roars as cargo-bay doors slide open. The car park that surrounds New Spitalfields Market like an awesome concrete moat is, this morning as every morning, teeming with vans. ![]()
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