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Public transit and car rentals are a poor substitute for a taxi service.
by imron 9y ago
Public transit and car rentals are a poor substitute for a taxi service.
- ghaff 9y agoI must be weird. I travel over 100 days a year. I do a lot of walking, sometimes rent cars, take public transportation, etc. I take taxis etc. relatively rarely.
- imron 9y agoEach of those options is perfectly fine for transportation if you planned and or intended to use them, what I mean is that whenever I've used a taxi or taxi-like service, car rental and/or public transportation would not have been a valid substitute or even possible. Car rental because you have to pick up the car and later drop it off and the costs are significantly higher than a taxi, and public transportation because it's slower, more crowded (therefore more difficult with luggage) and doesn't always go directly where you want to go. On a city-wide scale you can't expect car rentals and public transportation to be a valid replacement for a taxi/taxi-like service.
- kolinko 9y agoHave you been to Europe? I live in Poland and use public transportation as much as Uber - being able to afford both just as easily.
- imron 9y agoI have lived in Europe, although not Poland, but my point is not that public transportation is not useful, just that it's not always a suitable replacement for a taxi.
- smileysteve 9y agoTaxi service and rental cars are a poor substitute for public transit. I love that I live in one of the few cities with a train that leaves directly from the airport.
- stevekemp 9y agoManchester, UK? Helsinki, Finland? Tokyo, Japan? (I now wonder how many others I don't know about from personal experience!)
- xigency 9y agoChicago
- smileysteve 9y agoAtlanta